jumpstart Gary - improve your community, one house at a time
JUMPSTART GARY
Jumpstart is a new model for community development that provides training, mentoring, networking, and financing options for aspiring local developers.
The objectives of Jumpstart:
o create opportunities for local residents to invest in and develop neighborhood residential development projects
o build wealth locally
o support scattered-site rehabilitation (as opposed to urban renewal)
o encourage a healthy mix of affordable and market-rate housing that lessens neighborhood gentrification
o improve neighborhood safety and raise property values through blight reduction
o help first-time investors become more attractive to traditional lenders.