Projects

The Inclusivity Institute is engaged creating meaningful pilot programs and working with partners to scale up innovative models that tackle the systemic issues of housing affordability and racial as well as class segregation.

Housing security and desegregation

Voucher mobility and pathways to homeownership

Limited Voucher Program - Mobility

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

The Institute created a subsidiary of the Family Assistance Program to provide one time grant assistance to families struggling to obtain essential products, such as food and medicine, during times of temporary crisis.

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)

The LVP, Limited Voucher Program, is an expansion of the Family Assistance Program that exists to provide rent vouchers to tenants who are affected by temporary life challenges.

Economic empowerment

Payday loan alternatives

Development of our Small Dollar Loan Program

Neighborscapes/New Hope expansion

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