Program areas at Urban Strategies
Integrated service delivery: Urban Strategies plans, implements, or directs community and supportive services that meet social support needs and promote economic self-sufficiency for families in mixed-income housing communities in distressed Urban core neighborhoods. The organization served a population in 28 communities across 22 cities. Donated services of $429,844 benefitted this program.
Planning; Urban Strategies works with residents, developers, local service providers, funders, and other stakeholders to plan mixed-income housing revitalization projects with physical, social service, and economic development components. Urban Strategies develops human capital plans that integrate social service support into the physical redevelopments of communities and match local, state, federal, and private resources to those efforts.
Leadership development & sustainability: Urban Strategies provides services that build the capacity of community residents to act as leaders to their communities, to seek out programs and services that benefit their families, to advance the economic self-sufficiency of their families, to overcome barriers to employment, and to promote the overall stability and quality of mixed-income housing communities.
Affordable housing - program related investment - interest income; affordable housing - program related investment - loan abatements; policy development: Urban Strategies uses its practitioner knowledge from the ground work to inform policy changes in the areas of housing, education, health and economic mobility to support our families at the federal, state, and local levels. ; affordable housing development: Urban serves as lender to 12 affordable housing sites in st. louis and Kansas city through the Missouri housing development commission's affordable housing assistance program (ahap), which collectively house approximately 1,600 households.