Initiative for
Affordable Housing, Inc. is a private non-profit agency, founded in 1990
by two churches with long histories of social involvement in
the local community. The agency is located in DeKalb County but serves
homeless families who are from all around the Atlanta metro area. Initiative
owns and maintains 20 single-family homes, as well as 4
apartment complexes with 355 rental units. The agency
also develops, constructs, and sells affordable housing to increase
availability of affordable housing in metro Atlanta.
What We Do:
Initiative offers homeless families permanent,
affordable housing along with the supportive services and resources
to help make a house or an apartment a home. Unique in its response
to the community’s diverse needs, Initiative provides a
safety net of social services and agency-owned affordable housing
that is time-limited and tailored to each family’s needs.
Initiative is committed to the philosophy that offering a place
to live is only the first step in helping families along the
path out of homelessness.
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Chase Donates Three Foreclosed
Properties to Initiative for Rehab
Chase, the national bank newly established in
Atlanta, recently donated three foreclosed properties in DeKalb
County to Initiative for Affordable Housing for renovation.
The donation of the three properties, located within two miles
of each other in south DeKalb, was made by Chase as an effort to
reclaim neighborhoods devastated by high concentrations of foreclosed
and abandoned property.
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Fourth
Co-op Planned for 2010
Initiative Expands Resident Food Co-ops
From One to Three
Initiative has started a third food co-op
for the residents of its
affordable housing apartment complexes. The first two were set up in
2008 and 2009 at Sol Luna Park in Decatur, helping a total of 58 families.
The third just started and serves 30 families at the Prince Avondale
Apartments in Avondale Estates.
“In any given weekly delivery run, we’ll have anywhere
from 4,000 to 6,000 pounds of food, using a truck donated by a member
of Columbia Presbyterian Church,” says Mignon Trelles, a Sol
Luna Park resident and staff coordinator for the Initiative co-op program. “We
make one run per week, serving three co-ops with alternating weekly
distributions.”
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