To address the problem of deteriorated vacant housing in the city's core neighborhoods, the City of St. Joseph, Missouri, in partnership with nonprofit groups, launched an aggressive real estate marketing campaign to attract private reinvestment for endangered historic properties. The concept was to aggressively identify distressed properties and establish contact with the owners in an effort to encourage rehabilitation or offer assistance in placing the house on the real estate market, and locate preservation-sensitive buyers who would complete the rehabilitation. Historic properties available for sale and restoration are published in The St. Joseph Historic Properties Emporium, a quarterly listing. The publication has generated more than 2,000 inquiries about historic properties since its inception and it has helped find buyers for 17 distressed properties. College Hill Apartments Neighborhood Networks Center Provides Community Resources for Single Moms St. Louis .
Residents are mostly single mothers who receive welfare assistance.
A variety of partnerships with community organizations have been created to provide services to all generations of the complex's resident families, including day care, after-school programs, drug and alcohol counseling, and support for women leaving prison. Support Services Provision Program Program Offers Housing Assistance and Community Support for Families St. Louis . The Support Services Provision Program of Beyond Housing of St. Louis provides a combination of permanent housing for needy families and comprehensive, individualized assistance to enable those families to reach their goals of self-sufficiency. Families are selected by income eligibility and willingness to achieve self-sufficiency. Case workers focus on identifying and meeting the needs of each individual in the family.