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Jericho Road Episcopal Housing Initiative is a faith-based nonprofit organization, providing working families and individuals’ affordable housing opportunities in New Orleans neighborhoods. With the guidance and support of residents and community organizations, Jericho Road is working with other non-profits, private businesses, governmental agencies and faith-based groups to create long-term housing strategies which include new construction and rehabilitation of existing owner occupied homes. Jericho Road is unlocking underutilized land, rebuilding neighborhoods and transforming communities in one of America’s most culturally important cities.

Lots Acquired: 41
Houses Constructed: 16

With seventy percent of housing stock uninhabitable, hundreds of thousands of New Orleanians are displaced. Many of these families want to return home.

Jericho Road is creating family wealth, empowering individuals, rehabilitating neighborhoods and changing communities by:

• Obtaining land

• Ensuring quality construction

• Requiring and providing access to high quality home buyer training

• Continuing to work with community residents and institutional partners to support a community based approach to redevelopment

* Establishing organizational longevity through fundraising and

• Selling affordable homes.



JERICHO ROAD LATEST NEWS

New Orleans, LA - March 20, 2008 - Jericho Road is proud to share with its advocates and supporters an article featured on the front page of the Metro section of today's New Orleans Times Picayune.

The article "Home At Last" highlights the success of Jericho Road's partnership with the Housing Authority of New Orleans in making homeownership a reality for returning New Orleanians in Central City.

Read the article >>


UNIVERSAL DESIGN STANDARDS

In consultation with Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Department of Occupational Therapy, Jericho Road is constructing homes that promote accessibility through Universal Design principals. Jericho Road is committed to building homes for a lifetime, serving people who are young and old, with excellent or limited physical abilities. For more information on Universal Design, click here.

Jericho Road Episcopal Housing Initiative1631 Seventh Street, New Orleans, LA 70115(504) 895-6763info@jerichohousing.org