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Overview

It's hard to believe. This year Argenta CDC marks 16 years of transforming the landscape of downtown North Little Rock and surrounding areas and helping families turn their American Dream into reality. We do this in partnership with government, nonprofit organizations, businesses and individuals like you. Over the years, these partnerships have allowed us to:

  • Increase affordable homeownership in Central Arkansas through rehabilitation and new construction
  • Provide home ownership counseling and education services to thousands of Arkansans
  • Stabilize fragile neighborhoods for low-income families and provide a safe and decent place to live
  • Work closely with parents who are committed to building a better future for themselves and their children
  • Spur the return, growth and creation of commercial and other development opportunities in downtown North Little Rock
  • Improve the real estate climate in targeted neighborhoods by increasing property values and creating investment and reinvestment opportunities
  • Increase the city's tax base, creating less demand on individual taxpayers while increasing government revenues

We believe that our service to the community is integral to creating and maintaining safe vibrant communities. That is why we depend on a wide range of supporters to offer the following programs:

Project Development: Providing and preserving affordable decent housing to families is our core mission and is fundamental to a neighborhood's stability and prosperity. During these challenging times in our housing market, our mission is even more vital as we offer safe, affordable and attractive homes to low-tomoderate- income families. Additionally, we are always seeking opportunities to develop mixed-use properties in our target areas, ensuring affordable housing and strong, commercial and retail sectors.

Home Ownership Education and Counseling: Home ownership educational services are needed now more than ever with the current housing climate. Central Arkansas is fortunate to have in Argenta CDC a top-notch NeighborWorks® America home ownership center with trained and certified staff educating clients from start to finish about purchasing a home and the accompanying responsibilities. Your support also helps us provide needed down payment assistance to qualified borrowers. Each year we assist over 300 clients throughout Arkansas and we expect to see dramatic increases in the coming years. We need your support to accommodate this vital outreach. Our 2008 goal includes helping at least 400 more families.

Building Green: In 2007 our commitment to the revitalization of Holt Neighborhood in North Little Rock provided us with an opportunity to reassess our development practices, leading us to more environmentally friendly construction and our Building Green Initiative. This is a partnership between the Argenta CDC and the Arkansas Chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC). We share the mission of designing and constructing affordable energy-efficient homes for the health and well being of low-to-moderate-income families. With other partners and a strong vision, we completed four of nine homes planned for this project. The first group of homes in this development has earned a Gold LEED-H designation from the USGBC Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) for Homes program. These homes are the first in Arkansas to earn a residential LEED designation.

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