About
Vision:
We envision a community where everyone has pathways to home and places to thrive.
Mission:
Piedmont Housing Alliance stewards housing opportunity, fosters communities of care, and strives to improve life outcomes. We do this through community-centered affordable housing development, quality property management, engaged resident services, shared learning, and financial education and lending.
Our work reflects our core values of home, justice, respect, hope, and community.
Our Services
Our service area is Planning District 10, which consists of the counties of Albemarle, Greene, Fluvanna, Louisa, Nelson and the city of Charlottesville.
We take a holistic approach to community management, housing counseling and financial services and development looking at the many ways that a family or individuals can benefit from our services.
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Safe, affordable housing
What We Do
Community Management & Resident Services: We currently manage 10 properties located in the city of Charlottesville and Albemarle and Nelson counties. We also offer resident services as a Certified Organization for Resident Engagement and Services (CORES) through Stewards of Affordable Housing for the future. The rigorous CORES certification demonstrates a strong commitment to providing robust resident services and support programs within affordable housing communities, going beyond just providing a dwelling and actively engaging with residents to improve their quality of life.
Lending Program: Our lending program is certified by the US Treasury as a Community Development Financial Institution (“CDFI”).
Development: Our development and redevelopment activity aims to preserve and increase the number of high-quality, affordable housing units in our area. We are certified as a Community Housing Development Organization (CHDO).
Housing Counseling: Our HUD-approved housing counseling program provides one-on-one coaching for home buying, credit improvement, debt reduction, savings programs, fair housing, and foreclosure prevention. We offer free classes in the community and are a Virginia Housing Development Authority-approved provider of First Time Homebuyer Education, required for access to financial assistance in homebuying. (A first-time homebuyer is defined as a buyer who has not owned a home for a period of three years prior to purchase.)
Our History
Piedmont Housing Alliance is the successor organization to the Thomas Jefferson Housing Improvement Commission (TJHIC), which was founded in 1983 by Jane Saunier as part of the Thomas Jefferson Planning District Commission. TJHIC received designation as a Community Housing Development Organization (CHDO) by the state of Virginia and had four allied organizations: Charlottesville Housing Improvement Project (CHIP-now disbanded); Albemarle Housing Improvement Project (AHIP-now a separate non-profit); Jordan Development Corporation; and Midway Development Corporation.
In 1996, TJHIC joined together with the Charlottesville Housing Foundation, which had been founded in 1968 by Francis Fife, Delegate Mitch Van Yahres, Thomas J. Michie, Jr. and Robert Stroud. CHF brought substantial assets to the alliance, including land. At that time the organization took the name Piedmont Housing Alliance.
Support Our Work
Supporting affordable housing is support for greater food security, education, and financial outcomes for everyone.