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ESLHA has enunciated clear-cut policies and strategies,
both long term and short term that seek to facilitate the economic
strengthening and overall growth of the residents/community living in
the Agency’s developments. These measures, as spelt out in the Five Year Plans and annual plans, reinforce ESLHA’s mission, viz:
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To provide safe, decent and affordable housing
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To
promote, in partnership with community agencies and faith-based
organizations, resident empowerment through education, training, job
development and home ownership.
ESLHA
faces the challenge of having to operate in a paradoxical scenario –
that of a sustained demand for low and very low housing units despite
adequate availability! On the one hand, is the continued decline in the
population of the City of East St. Louis.
On the other, genuine renters have little or no access to housing since
many of the dwelling units meant for large families have been taken by
higher household income households in the absence of enough stock of
moderate housing. ESLHA estimates that there will be a need to serve
2,700 renters over the next five years.
Our
Five Year Plan for the Fiscal Years 2005-2009 and the Annual Plan for
the Fiscal Year beginning 04/2006 have been drawn up against this
background. ESLHA’s Management Review Committee meets quarterly to review and assess the progress in meeting the goals and objectives. The
committee also makes necessary recommendations to the senior management
to adjust goals and objectives to better reflect the changing and
currently unrealized needs of the agency.
ESLHA’S Plans seek to fulfill the following goals and objectives:
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Promote decent affordable housing
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Increase home ownership opportunities
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Strengthen communities
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Promote Agency economic self sufficiency
For details of our plans and activities, please contact our
main administrative office.Plan Supporting Documents are available for inspection at our main business office.
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