The Community Building Program (CBP) is designed to benefit primarily low-income families, minorities, women, and homeless emancipated foster youth through the development of affordable housing.

The uniqueness of the program and the strength of its impact in our community lies not only in the creation of much-needed housing opportunities for first time homebuyers, but in the development of a “vocational pathway” for homeless youth and a community building career for college and university students.

A broad-based, multi-faceted program, The Community Building Program is comprehensive in scope and addresses many key social issues ranging from homelessness, unemployment, and poverty to the affordable housing crisis and diminished educational opportunities for youth.

Currently, our Community Building Program consists of two independent but interrelated initiatives:

• Neighborhood Revitalization Initiative
• Students At Work Initiative
  

In the spirit of the Federal Government’s efforts to move more people from Welfare to work, our key initiatives focus on the following:

• Integrate homeless youth with college and university students –
  each working at different levels of education helping the other to move towards greater independence, job preparation, full-time employment, housing and self-sufficiency.
• Develop new economic opportunities in struggling neighborhoods -- provide new homes for families moving from welfare to work and create opportunities for homeownership for first time homebuyer’s, young families, women and minorities.
• Empower the whole community from the inside out by planning and implementing activities that create structural and social change.