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Causes: Community & Neighborhood Development, Economic Development, Financial Counseling, Homeless & Housing, Housing Development, Construction & Management, Human Services
Mission: To inspire and cultivate healthy neighborhoods. We consider a healthy neighborhood to be one that is safe, clean, and diverse; one in which it makes economic sense for people to invest and one where neighbors manage change successfully.
Programs: Provision of affordable housing and property management to low and moderate income people. The organization owns 6 rental properties occupied by low and moderate income residents. The organization also purchases, remodels, and resells homes to qualifying individuals.
provision of credit counseling and homebuyer education classes to low and moderate income people. Counseling services include pre- and post-purchase counseling as well as foreclosure/loss mitigation and downpayment/closing cost assistance counseling. Other services include budgeting, financial literacy, homebuyer education and loan document packaging classes.
promotion of community and economic development. The hands and feet service program helps to coordinate local service projects by matching groups of volunteers with qualifying residents to perform repairs and maintenance on low-income homesteaded homes. Projects include painting, scraping, and minor siding repairs, as well as the maintenance of 40-60 vacant lots in the 60 square block radius served by the organization.