Little
Haiti Housing Association, Inc.
"Building Homes, Building Lives, Building Community"
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Little Haiti Housing Association, Inc. (LHHA) is a 501(c) (3) non-profit community development corporation comprehensively serving the development needs of the low-income residents of Little Haiti. Since its incorporation in 1987, LHHA has been committed to its mission of providing decent, affordable housing as a base for an improved quality of life for the residents of Little Haiti and neighboring communities. We believe that housing efforts must be part of a holistic strategy for effecting sustainable community development. LHHA is a community development corporation comprehensively serving the affordable housing and community development needs of the Haitian-American community in northeast Miami-Dade County. To serve the Little Haiti community, we provide service in five major areas: 1) Housing rehabilitation and new construction; 2) Home ownership education/financial literacy services, including individual budget savings and credit counseling, home ownership preparation classes (taught in Haitian Creole), individual support for below-market-rate mortgage applications, home owner follow-up and support, insurance services, and financial planning; 3) Tenant/homeowner services and education (in Haitian Creole), and client referrals to needed social services; 4) Community building initiatives such as the Little Haiti and North Miami Computer Clubhouse program and other community organizing initiatives that are designed to empower community residents, and 5) economic development initiatives. To better understand LHHA is to understand our partner organizations as follows: Haitian Neighborhood Center: Sant-La Neighborhood Housing Services ITWomen: Women Across Technology |