Affordable Housing

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.

LISC Kalamazoo invests in all kinds of affordable housing. We help develop new multi-family rentals, and preserve existing ones that could be lost to market forces or deterioration. We finance sustainable, “green” construction and reha­bilitation, which makes for lower operating costs and has been proven to boost health outcomes for occupants and entire neighborhoods. And we lead foreclosure interventions that help people keep their homes, or that reinvigorate communities where foreclosure has decimated block after block.

LISC Kalamazoo helps make qual­ity, affordable housing available to low-income and vulnerable residents—from seniors to veterans to the formerly homeless - in underserved neighborhoods. To make this all happen, we provides grants, loans and equity for nearly every aspect of development, from planning and acquisition to construction and ren­ovation. We do this through LISC Housing and our affiliate, the National Equity Fund. We offer techni­cal assistance, data and mapping tools to communi­ty-based organizations working to improve the supply and condition of affordable housing in their neigh­borhoods. And we advocate for good housing policy at all levels of government.

LISC helps make quality, affordable housing available to low- income and vulnerable residents.