Providence Community Housing

Christopher Homes, Archdiocese of New Orleans, was founded in 1966 with a mandate to provide affordable and decent housing in our community. Christopher Homes manages 25 complexes with over 2,650 apartments in the Greater New Orleans area for low income residents. The majority of apartments are dedicated to seniors through the HUD 202 program. Christopher Homes is the largest private provider of affordable housing in Louisiana.

Catholic Charities, Archdiocese of New Orleans, offers more than thirty programs and services to the poor and vulnerable of the Greater New Orleans area. The agency provides emergency, transitional, and permanent housing to numerous special needs populations, including the homeless, the mentally ill, the mentally retarded and the disabled. Catholic Charities is the largest provider of community services in the region, caring annually for over 125,000 people, and over 450,000 since Katrina.

Incorporated in 1999, UJAMAA Community Development Corporation is a non-profit organization charged with a mission to create economic well-being through educational, social and cultural development in order to foster neighborhood revitalization in the Treme neighborhood. UJAMAA has developed over 114 units of affordable housing, and a community center. The CDC maintains close association with the founding St. Peter Claver Catholic Church community.

The Tulane/Canal Neighborhood Development Corporation grew from the congregation of New Orleans' St. Joseph Catholic Church's advocacy and ministry services. Dedicated to the creation of affordable housing for families in the neighborhood, the Tulane/Canal Neighborhood Development Corporation has developed affordable homes in the Bienville Corridor since its inception in 2001.

Established in 2001, Reconcile New Orleans has remained true to its mission of bringing together individuals, businesses, nonprofits and faith communities committed to New Orleans' Central City neighborhood to establish a workforce development program including restaurant/hospitality and construction trades for at-risk youth and adults ready to enter the workforce with strong life and work skill sets.

The Sisters of the Holy Family, an African American congregation of pontifical status, was founded in New Orleans by Henriette Delille, a free woman of African descent, some twenty years before the Emancipation Proclamation. The Congregation has maintained its original ministries of educating youth and caring for the aged, the poor, and the most abject of society. They own and operate the oldest continuous Catholic home for the aged in the United States, and operate two independent living facilities for low-income senior citizens in New Orleans.

Puentes New Orleans, Inc. was founded in 2007 by a group of Hispanic community leaders to encourage, promote, and advance full community integration of Hispanic families in the Greater Metropolitan New Orleans area through housing, economic, cultural and educational growth, as well as research and advocacy activities. Through development of educational programs, such as a first time homebuyer training program in Spanish and a bilingual public safety community educational outreach effort, Puentes works to provide the growing Hispanic community with the necessary information that will enable greater participation.

MQVN Community Development Corporation was founded to rebuild the Vietnamese American community in New Orleans East and to contribute to the rebuilding of a more equitable New Orleans. To achieve this mission, MQVN CDC focuses on five key strategies: Facilitate community access to services and resources to rebuild their lives, organize Vietnamese American residents so that they have a voice in the rebuilding process, develop affordable housing for low-income families, ensure quality education, and to promote development and neighborhood ethnic business district revitalization.

Providence is supported by a partnership with Enterprise:

Since 1982, Enterprise has produced more than 190,000 affordable homes and strengthened hundreds of communities. Currently they invest $1 billion a year improving low-income communities. Enterprise develops and supports innovative models that give people with limited incomes the tools and opportunities to become self-sufficient. For years, they have also helped policymakers develop solutions to housing and economic development challenges facing our nation. Enterprise tackles the toughest challenges - struggling neighborhoods, failing schools, poverty and homelessness - in communities where most organizations would not commit their resources and experience. No matter what the challenge - including Katrina, Enterprise has the will to make it so.

We are also grateful for our partners at NeighborWorks America:

NeighborWorks America creates opportunities for people to improve their lives and strengthen their communities by providing access to homeownership and to safe and affordable rental housing. To date, they have assisted nearly 850,000 low- to moderate-income families with their housing needs. Much of NeighborWorks America's success is achieved through their support of the NeighborWorks network ― more than 235 community development organizations working in 4,400 urban, suburban and rural communities in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. In the last five years, NeighborWorks organizations have generated more than $12.4 billion in reinvestment in these communities. NeighborWorks America is the nation's leading trainer of community development and affordable housing professionals.