Projects

The Inclusivity Institute is engaged in a six-month launch with a four-pronged approach to engage the community and create meaningful resources that can invigorate partners to tackle the systemic issues of housing affordability and racial as well as class segregation.

Housing security and desegregation

Preventing displacement

The Institute has plans to work with communities to secure funding for the acquisition of apartment buildings in gentrifying areas and developing a finance structure to maintain reduced rental rates for low-income families for most of the units.

Eviction Avoidance (Family Assistance Program)

The Institute worked to create an innovative new rental assistance program model aimed at addressing housing inequities and instability among low- and moderate-income renter households and reducing our nation’s eviction crisis.

Limited vouchers (for transitional supports)

Under development

Child grants and residential tutoring integration at low- and moderate-income rental properties

Under development

Source of Income Protection study in Richmond

Under development

Voucher mobility and pathways to homeownership

Under development

Neighborscapes

Under development

Economic empowerment

Neighborscapes/New Hope expansion

Under development

Payday loan alternatives

Under development

Pre-approved low-interest revolving loans offered at rental properties

Under development

Fact

1.5x more likely

Good housing is good health. Today, Black households, regardless of income, are 1.5 times more likely to be exposed to environmental hazards like poor air quality.

Source: Racial Inequalities in Housing, Opportunity Starts at Home