LISC started its Housing Authority Resource Center (HARC) in 1998 to broker relationships between local housing authorities and other community developers in neighborhoods across the country. By providing access to best practices, information, and training LISC has helped connect these worlds to develop creative and collaborative solutions to local problems. HARC teams with local LISC offices and the National Equity Fund (NEF) Public Housing group to build the development capacity of local housing authorities that are considering public housing redevelopment, new housing development (including homeownership) and commercial revitalization. LISC and NEF help identify financing structures that will leverage public resources with private investment as well as direct project financing such as predevelopment loans, bridge lending, lines of credit, working capital, and tax credit equity.

Publications Available for Download:

> Housing Authority Resource Center - Program Summary (PDF, 124 KB)

> New Directions, Sustainable Solutions (Case Studies, 2007)

> Building Capacity, Leveraging Change (Case Studies, 2006)

> Breaking New Ground: Entrepreneurial Approaches for Housing Authorities (Case Studies, 2005)

> Strategies to Move Beyond the Traditional (Case Studies, 2004)