Affordable Housing & Community Development

The cornerstone of our work.

A safe, affordable home is one of the basic requisites of life—a key to individual health and well-being, and the foundation for sustainable, economically vibrant and diverse neighborhoods.

Housing is where LISC started. And it’s still the cornerstone of our mission, even as our vision has expanded to include catalyzing opportunity for people and places in many ways: through education, good jobs, health, safety and economic development. LISC continues to make quality, affordable housing available to low-income and vulnerable residents—from seniors to veterans to the formerly homeless—in underserved communities across Connecticut.

Quality, affordable housing has benefits that extend beyond the walls of a home and the experience of the people who live there to the community at large. It can stimulate spending and employment in the local economy, bring revenue to the community and reduce the likelihood of foreclosure. While affordable housing represents the core of our work, LISC supports community development projects broadly, including those that advance access to healthy foods, job training and creation, and community-facing economic development projects.