about home and community, inc. that gives low-income residents tools to improve their communities -

home&community, inc. was founded in Washington, D.C. in May 2000, at the request of low-income residents striving to improve their communities. We were among the early organizations providing truly interdisciplinary collaborations between residents, advocates, planners and educators, as they worked to change housing policy. The hallmark of our work was -- and continues to be -- providing tools empowering residents to train and educate other residents.

home&community's purpose is:

to serve low-income residents through capacity building;
to insure that at the local, state and national levels, residents and advocates play an important and integral part in the community development process -- from shaping the debate at the initial policy development stage, through the planning stage to the final stage of plan implementation and monitoring;
to advocate a meaningful holistic approach in saving and enriching low-income communities. Holistic development accesses the various mechanisms of change -- economic, social, moral, and political;
to facilitate coalition building around the issue of home and community;
to effect change in local, state and national housing and community development policies and institutions.

Jenifer Bosco, Esq. Fair Labor and Employment Law

Mimi Lind, LCSW Director of Mental Health Services, Venice Family Clinic

Michael Meyer Director of Real Estate and Housing, City of Newark

Andraleia Villand Designer and Project Manager, Ralph Burch Construction

Aziza Agia, Esq., MPP Contributing author, Building Wealth: The New Asset-Based Approach to Solving Social and Economic Problems

Sabrina L Williams - The Executive Director of home&community, inc. Her background includes work in architecture, law and urban planning.

Jay Ferguson, Torrance, CA:
Thank you for the work you do. The summaries of community development policy have helped me explain the important changes coming our way. I look forward to more of these clear summaries as new housing laws are made, affecting affordable housing.

Jacqueline Nichols, Los Angeles, CA:
It is really important for those of us working to organize communities around housing policy to have information at our fingertips. Before I received your summary of resources and articles about the ³alphabet soup² of housing programs, I found myself looking for the same information in so many different places that I couldn¹t even remember what I¹d already looked at or not. It was really frustrating. I look forward to receiving the other information organized in the same way.

JD Harrison, Woodville, FL:
Thank you, thank you, thank you for the information on Tallahassee¹s Housing Trust Fund in addition to the [California] Best Practices and absolutely complete history and summary of national legislation.