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Overview
NeighborWorks® America’s response to the destruction caused in the Gulf Coast region by the hurricanes of 2005 and 2008 has been grounded on the principal of rebuilding “from the neighborhoods up.”
Modeled upon our 30-year history of supporting community-based partnerships, our rebuilding initiative supports the foundations of neighborhood rebuilding – the families, organizations, and homes that make up these neighborhoods.
NeighborWorks has opened field offices in Jackson, Mississippi and New Orleans, and we are supporting organizations with grants and investments that will aid 100,000 families with financial counseling, as well as support building or rehabilitation of 10,000 affordable homes in the region by 2010.
To date, NeighborWorks grants of more than $10 million to its partners are helping to build the capacity of these organizations, as well as advance the development of over $150 million in new and rehabilitated single and multifamily units.
Read Times-Picayune article on our work in New Orleans. See our work in the Gulf featured in the Office of the Comptroller of Currency's Community Developments newsletter.
Resources:
NeighborWorks Gulf Recovery Brochure:
Rebuilding Lives from Neighborhoods Up [PDF, 453 KB]
NeighborWorks Video:
Helping Families and Communities Along the Gulf Coast
The Times-Picayune article:
NeighborWorks America Program is Helping Low, Moderate-income Families Buy Homes
Office of the Comptroller of Currency Feature:
NeighborWorks Leverages Parternships to Rebuild from 'Neighborhoods Up' [PDF]
NeighborWorks Press Release:
NeighborWorks America Partners with Make It Right to Provide Homeownership and Financial Education and Counseling to New Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward Homeowners
Ongoing Activities
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