Care Housing, Inc.

Components:
- Target Population: working low income families, often earning slightly above minimum wage
- Target incomes: 25%-60% of Area Median Income
- 166 two and three bedroom units, comprised of 156 family and 10 senior units

Statistics:
- Two-thirds of the families are single heads of households
- The average annual income earned is about $16,000
- The lowest annual income earned is $13,725

Funding Sources:
- Development Impact Fee Rebate Program
- Community Development Block Grant
- HOME - City & State
- Federal Home Loan Bank
- Tax credits
- Permanent bank financing
- Fundraising
- Foundations

Fort Collins Housing Authority.

Components:
- Local public housing agency - quasi-municipality independent from the City of Fort Collins
- Secures public and private sector funds (federal, state, and local) to develop, maintain, and implement assisted housing programs, operating within the corporate limits of Fort Collins

Programs include:
- Fort Collins public housing
- Wellington public housing
- Affordable housing
- Single room occupancy (SRO)
- Section 8 voucher program
- Economic self-sufficiency programs

Funding Sources:
- Community Development Block Grant Program (CDBG)
- HOME Program - State of Colorado
- HOME Program – City of Fort Collins
- Federal Home Loan Bank
- Local Bank Loans

Habitat for Humanity

Components:
- Projects are geared towards assisting the working poor earning between 25% and 50% of the Area Median Income.
- "Hand Up, Not Handout" credo: families are expected to contribute at least 250 hours towards the construction of their house and an additional 250 hours helping build a house for someone else.
- Program uses zero interest mortgages and volunteer labor to keep construction costs down.
- A family can expect to pay no more than 30% of its gross monthly income on house payments, taxes, insurance, and utilities.
- Nine Habitat houses constructed, one under construction, and two planned

Funding Sources:
- Volunteer labor
- Tax-deductible donations of money and materials

Neighbor to Neighbor

Components:

1. Rental Counseling - locating affordable housing, damage deposit assistance, landlord/tenant counseling, Section 8 landlords; property management lists, housing lists, eviction prevention, step-up housing first month's rent and damage deposit

2. Mortgage Counseling - homebuyer education seminar, mortgage default/foreclosure, prevention counseling, reverse mortgage counseling for older adults.

3. Special Projects - relocated 200 families from Pioneer Mobile Home Park, relocated families displaced by the Fort Collins Flood of 1997, acquired an expiring Section 8 project (68 units) in 2000.

4. Permanent, Affordable Housing - own and manage 128 rental units in 9 complexes, ranging in size for a triplex to a 68 unit complex, throughout Fort Collins and Loveland. Provide special needs housing including for seniors, people with AIDS, young physically disabled, former domestic abuse victims, Section 8, and previously homeless families.

Rose Tree Village

Components:
- 121 one, two and three bedroom apartment rental units
- Target population is 60% or less AMI
- Rent restricted for 30 years
- Project was co-sponsored by Neighbor to Neighbor (non-profit) and Shields Street Corp. through an equally owner Colorado Limited Liability Company, Affordable Housing Ventures, LLC

Funding Sources:
- Conventional loans
- CDBG
- Colorado Board of Realtors
- Low Income Housing Tax Credits
- Impact Fee Rebate

The Woodlands

Funding Sources:
- Local and State HOME Program
- Impact Fee Rebates
- Low Income Housing Tax Credits
- Conventional Loans