Homeownership

Faith-based organizations continue to play avital role in supporting minority and low-income communities, particularly as rising living costs impact the need for affordable housing. Through our partnerships with Amani Christian Development Corporation and Open Hand Ministries, two faith-based community organizations, we’re working to create better housing opportunities in Pittsburgh neighborhoods.

Amani Christian Development Company

We partnered with Amani to secure a $300,000Affordable Housing Program grant to develop the Ledlie Street Townhomes, two modern, high efficiency, for-sale residential units on vacant, underutilized land in the Middle Hill District at the corner of Ledlie Street and Monaca Place. Amani Christian CDC is piloting the project with Module, a Pittsburgh-based company that builds energy-efficient homes, marking the first modular housing construction in the Hill District neighborhood. 

The single-family units are reserved for low-to-moderate income households, including those with special needs or experiencing homelessness. 

Open Hand Ministries

Open Hand Ministries empowers the marginalized through a village built on education, financial wellness, and affordable homeownership and is focused on increasing affordable homeownership in Pittsburgh’s East End, particularly in Garfield, a predominantly African American neighborhood facing gentrification and rising housing costs.

Similar to our support of the Ledlie Street Townhomes, we are supporting the Hillcrest Street Houses project, in collaboration with Open Hand Ministries, to create three additional for-sale single-family units, funded by a$450,000 FHLBank grant.