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2002 renovation of the Little Haiti Community Center building.

Little Haiti Housing Association, Inc. (LHHA) was incorporated in 1987 by residents and community stakeholders of Little Haiti to address the need for affordable housing in this community in transition. By the mid-80’s Little Haiti had become the geographical and cultural home for the majority of the Haitian immigrants living in South Florida and Haitian residents made up the majority population in Little Haiti. An unstated element of LHHA’s mission was that the main target population for its services was residents of the Haitian community. As the Haitian community has grown, so has LHHA’s mission to provide decent, affordable housing as a base for an improved quality of life for the residents of Little Haiti and now neighboring communities, notably unincorporated areas in northeastern Miami-Dade County and the City of North Miami.

Since inception, LHHA has facilitated the closing of over 280 homes turning families into homeowners; developed or co-developed over 169 for-sale units, educated over 2,500 low-income households in the areas of budgeting, credit repair and homebuyer’s counseling, leveraged approximately $20 million in residential first mortgages and another $10 million in grant funds for down payment assistance. LHHA’s accomplishments document its ability to finance, acquire and construct/rehabilitate properties, as well as the ability to market a housing product in the Haitian-American community.

In support of its mission, all of LHHA’s programs and efforts are geared towards bringing resources to the various communities we serve, resources that not only empower low-income Haitian-American residents, but that build a stronger, more stable community for all residents. There is no other community development corporation in South Florida that addresses the housing needs of the Haitian-American community as comprehensively as that of LHHA.