Affordable Housing : Nehemiah Homes

IAF-East created and implemented the nation's first Nehemiah housing effort in 1982 in Brooklyn. Since then IAF affiliate East Brooklyn Congregations has built 2,900 new townhouses in formerly blighted areas there, with another 840 homes now in the pre-development stage. Another 1,000 Nehemiah homes have been built in the South Bronx by South Bronx Churches. Nearly 900 new homes have been constructed in Baltimore by Baltimoreans United In Leadership Development, 135 homes in Philadelphia by Philadelphia Interfaith Action, and 147 homes are under construction in the District of Columbia by Washington Interfaith Network.