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Looking Back: EAH Housing Through the Years

EAH Housing has been serving as an affordable housing nonprofit organization since the 1960s. Here is a brief glimpse into where it all started and how far it's come.

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Looking Back: EAH Housing Through the Years

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  1. LookingBack: EAHHousing Through the Years EAHHousing

  2. initsfiftyyearsservingthewesternUnitedStates. EAHHousing hascomealong way Foundedin1968, EAHHousingwasoriginallyformedbya groupofordinarycitizensseekingtobetterthelivesoflow- incomefamiliesinMarinCounty, California. TheEcumenical AssociationforHousing, asitwascalled, cametogetherasa responsetoDr. MartinLutherKing, Jr.’sassassination.

  3. Whentwenty-four localorganizations organizedthemselveslaterthatyear toestablishthefirstoffice, EAHwasborn. Volunteerstookto variousrolesandflourished. Whethertheyweredonating landtodevelopaffordablehousingcommunitiesorsimply welcominglow-incomefamiliesbyadvocatingthattheyturn theirownneighborhoodsintoaffordablehousing, eachjob playedanimportantroleinexpandingEAHHousingandits influenceinthecommunity. 1971sawthetheunveilingofPilgrimPark, theinaugural affordablehousingcommunitydevelopedbyEAHin conjunctionwithalocalchurch. PilgrimParkwasthefirst affordablehousingcommunityinitscounty, fundedby federalprograms, thatwasnotgovernment-ownedpublic housing.

  4. thatitsoonspreadtoothercountiesandacrosstwostates: Californiaand Theeffortsof EAH Hawai`i, servingmorethanfiftymunicipalitiestoday. Residentsagesoneto ninety-eighthaveallfoundhomeswithEAHHousing, anaccomplishment thatspeakstoitslevelofdedicationandevolutionasanonprofit. What startedoutasameansforsocialjusticehassincebloomedintoa comprehensiveorganizationthatseekstoincreasepublicengagementand WERESOSUCCESSFUL cementprogressinhousinglow-incomeseniors, families, veteransandthe disabled. KalaniGardensandKukuiTowerweretwoofthefirstaffordablehousing communitiesEAHacquiredinHawai`i, preserving499rentalhousing apartmentsforlow-incomefamiliesinthemostunderservedstateinthe countryforaffordablehousing. Thesetwocommunitieswereonlythestartof manymoretocome, asEAHHousingcontinuestotransformandcreate communitiesalongthePacificOcean.

  5. Eachday EAHcontinuestostrivetowardssocialjusticethrough dedicationandempathyasitservesCaliforniaandHawai`i citizensalike. EAHHousing.org

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