Lighthouse Communities was birthed from City Vision. City Vision is a secondary support organization for community development organizations. Early on, one of the great cry s City Vision heard from her CDC partners was that they needed help affecting the housing stock in their neighborhoods. The experience of City Vision's partners was that housing was a tough nut to crack.
Housing is highly technical, very costly, and full of red tape.
The partners found that the time and energy it takes to be significantly involved in housing took away from their time working with families. With that, City Vision began meeting with their CDC leaders to ask them what they thought would make up an effective community housing organization. From these conversations, Lighthouse Communities and the Lighthouse Concept was born. Basically, the Lighthouse Concept is preparing the home for the people , the people for the home, and the community to receive both the community and the home . It is the presence of community based development corporations and their involvement, management, and ownership at a community level with the housing initiatives that makes the Lighthouse Concept so different.