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.
Housing is where LISC started. And it’s still the cornerstone of our mission, even as our vision has expanded to incorporate work to improve education, health, safety and economic growth in the places where we work. LISC helps make quality, affordable housing available to low-income and vulnerable residents—from seniors to veterans to the formerly homeless—in underserved communities.
Affordable housing has benefits that extend beyond the walls of a home to the community at large. It boosts spending and employment in the surrounding economy, brings revenue into local governments and reduces the likelihood of foreclosure.
With several nonprofit housing partners, we are working to resest the single-family housing market in the Poplar Lawn Historic District in Petersburg.
The WORTH RVA program supports housing counseling and for families in underserved areas that have historically experienced systemic barriers to homeownership.
LISC Virginia’s HDTI seeks to provide comprehensive training in multi-family affordable housing development within a community development context for both nonprofit and for-profit housing developers.