Coachella Valley Housing Coalition

Street Address:
45-701 Monroe Street
Suite G
Indio, CA 92201


Phone: 760-347-3157
Fax: 760-342-6466
Website: www.cvhc.org

John F. Mealey, Executive Director

Contact Name: Cherise R Ellenz
Phone: 760-347-3157x265
Fax:
Email: cherise@cvhc.org


Staff Size: Full Time: 50    Part Time: 4

Background
The Coachella Valley Housing Coalition was formed in 1982 when local community activists, business leaders, and other individuals came together to do something about the lack of decent housing for farmworkers, and low-income families and individuals in the Coachella Valley. An initial grant of $10,000 from The Aetna Foundation was obtained, and CVHC’s first employee and current Executive Director John Mealey was hired. Early efforts produced a farmworker apartment complex and a housing rehabilitation program. More than 800 people applied to live in Pueblo Nuevo (50 units), CVHC’s first farmworker housing complex completed in 1986 in Coachella, CA. In 1987, CVHC began its Self Help housing program, and in 1992, CVHC’s first non-farmworker apartment complex was completed using tax credit financing. CVHC extended its services beyond housing in 1993, first by the completion of a water-delivery system that supplied safe drinking water to more than 200 households in Indio, CA., and then by the implementation of apartment-based child-care centers at two of its apartment complexes.

Mission
The purpose of the Coachella Valley Housing Coalition is to help low income people improve their living conditions through advocacy, research, construction, and operation of housing and community development projects.

Lines of Business
  • Asset and Property Management

  • Community Building and Organizing

  • Home Ownership Promotion Services

  • Real Estate Development


    • National NeighborWorks ® Programs
  • NeighborWorks Community Building and Organizing
  • NeighborWorks Multifamily Initiative

    • Additional Accomplishments
    Date Additional Accomplishment
    10/16/2008 CVHC has completed 1,244 single family homes. More than 7,000 families are on the waiting list to build their mutual self-help homes. CVHC has completed 1,966 Multi-Family units, in 28 affordable apartment complexes, for which more than 2,000 families are on the waiting list.

    Community Services
  • Community Building

  •  Neighborhood / Resident Crime Watch

  • Family Health Programs

  •  Afterschool/Tutoring Programs

  •  Community Health Services

  •  Daycare Center

  •  English as a Second Language Classes

  • Financial Planning and Assistance

  •  Foreclosure Prevention Training

  • Green Building and Home Improvement

  •  Environmental Friendly Building Materials

  •  Home Maintenance Training

  • Housing Programs and Home Ownership Counseling

  •  Home Ownership Counseling

  •  Rental Housing


    • Board of Directors
    NameBoard Role/TitleSectorCompany/OrganizationJob Title
    Larry CoxBoard PresidentResident  

    About the NeighborWorks ® Network
    The NeighborWorks® network is a nationwide network of more than 240 community development organizations working in nearly 4358 urban, suburban and rural communities across America. These organizations engage in revitalization strategies that strengthen communities and transform lives. In the last five years alone, NeighborWorks® organizations have generated more than $8.5 billion in reinvestment and helped more than 500,000 families of modest means purchase or improve their homes or secure safe, decent rental or mutual housing.

    NeighborWorks ® America Contact Information
    District:  Pacific
    Name:  Laurie Delman
    Phone:  714-940-0144x26
    Toll-Free:  
    Fax:  714-940-0973
    Email:  ldelman@nw.org