Virginia Housing and Community Development Corporation is a private, non-profit corporation.  It is governed by a Board of Directors, local residents and experienced business leaders, who provide policy and direction for the Corporation.

Mission:

Virginia Housing and Community Development Corporation (VHCDC) will transform low-income, distressed communities into vibrant places to live, do business, and work.


Goals and Objectives:

• Provide access to housing and productive resources for low and moderate-income households and other disadvantaged people;
   

• Conduct public discussion groups, forums, panels, lectures, and other similar programs designed to educate the public about the benefits of housing, community and economic development programs, laws, services, and enactments of government and non-government entities;
   

• Foster and support the development of a stable and productive economic base for low and moderate income communities and thereby relieve the burden on government;
   

• Create alternative models of financing for community economic development that encourage investment by local organizations, churches, and individual residents, leveraging the resources of the region, and promoting greater responsiveness to community and lower income household needs on the part of traditional and non-traditional financial institutions; and,
   

• Conserve and enhance the quality and productivity of housing, land, and natural resources, while ensuring that disadvantaged and low and moderate-income people share in their use and enjoyment thereof.

VHCDC depends on monetary grants and donations, in-kind contributions, and corporate partners to design, implement, market, and operate  projects and services that assist small disadvantaged businesses and residents of low-income, distressed communities.  Click here to  help...
 

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