CHDOs
Community Housing Development Organizations

Mississippi Home Corporation provides technical assistance to Community Housing Development Organizations (CHDOs). MHC received two contracts total over $450,000 from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to help train and construct operational seed funds to enable CHDOs to maintain, rehabilitate, and construct housing for low and moderate income families. MHC was one of only 23 organizations nationwide and the only Housing Finance Authority in the country awarded a contract.

CHDO Qualifications

  • Organization must be a non-profit (501c) organization developing decent housing affordable to low income persons or working to revitalize deteriorating neighborhoods.
  • The organization should have experience in providing a range of assistance to a community
  • The non-profit should be recognized by the city of Jackson or the State of Mississippi as eligible to receive CHDO services and propose housing activities that are priorities of Jackson MS or the Federal Home Program

For more information contact Julie Brooks