Mission First Housing Group

About Mission First Housing Group

Mission First Housing Group’s mission is to develop and manage affordable, equitable, safe, sustainable homes that support residents and strengthen communities.

What began nearly 35 years ago as a joint venture between the City of Philadelphia, HUD and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has become a full-service, nonprofit affordable housing organization developing high-quality, green community assets across the Mid-Atlantic region. Mission First’s original purpose was to provide for the housing needs of adults living with chronic mental illness.

Over the course of our history, Mission First employed a number of key strategies and innovative practices to support its expansion having developed a successful model for providing safe, quality, affordable housing for a particularly vulnerable population. Mission First’s footprint is now the entire Mid-Atlantic region and it now serves a diverse resident population that includes families, veterans, survivors of domestic violence, seniors and individuals with disabilities. Mission First serves nearly 6,000 people in over 4,000 apartments.

Our Services:

• Affordable Housing Development: Develop properties, rehabilitate existing properties and preserve historic buildings; identify opportunities and assemble the complex financing sources needed to support development.
• Construction: Construction management expertise; general contractor on projects developed in the Greater Philadelphia region.
• Property Management: Oversee marketing, leasing and managing of units; 24-hour on-call maintenance department.
• Resident Services: Support residents to live independently, engage with their communities, and achieve success; provide a wide array of programs and services, including information and referral, one-on-one support, community-based programming and more.

More information at www.missionfirsthousing.org