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Old Pueblo Community Services
Annual Report
2006

2006 was another year of tremendous growth for OPCF’s Housing Development Department.  We helped 28 first-time home buyers achieve their dream of home ownership, which was double the number of families we assisted in 2005.  Our total budget for the Housing Development Department increased to $1,600,000 from $650,000 in 2005.  The vast majority of our funding goes directly to the needy families we serve through downpayment grants, and grants to repair homes.

Old Pueblo received grants from the Tucson Industrial Development Authority, the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco, the City of Tucson and Pima County.  In addition, JP Chase Morgan and Compass Bank gave OPCF grants to help with our home buyer education classes and the one-on-one counseling that we provide to first-time home buyers.  In 2006, over 350 families received housing counseling services.

Old Pueblo repaired the homes of 18 very low-income individuals and families.  Anna Marie Patti oversees Old Pueblo’s owner-occupied rehabilitation programs.  In 2006, Old Pueblo focused our efforts on helping families replace major systems that were not working, such as heating and cooling.

OPCF is a State of Arizona certified Community Housing Development Organization.  We are also a City of Tucson/Pima County certified Community Housing Development Organization, a member of the Tucson Rehabilitation Collaborative, the Don’t Borrow Trouble campaign, and we are the co-founder of a new Homeownership Collaborative with Habitat for Humanity and the Tucson Urban League.  Terry Galligan, Old Pueblo’s Director of Housing Development, and Michael McDonald, Executive Director of Habitat for Humanity, co-authored a guest commentary in the AZ Daily Star in August regarding work-force housing.

A number of new and exciting developments are in the works for 2007.  Old Pueblo has received funding commitments to build 56 new houses in various locations around Tucson.   In addition, we anticipate expanding our owner-occupied rehabilitation program by working with the Town of Marana in 2007. 

 

 

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