Neighborhood Housing Services of Los Angeles County

NHS’ Legacy Project provides financial education, estate planning & counseling, wealth building strategies, property supports through affordable loans and property acquisitions, and works to preserve cultural neighborhoods. This project is essential to helping LMI and BIPOC communities break socio-economic barriers through financial literacy education, homeownership opportunities, and neighborhood revitalization.

Utilizing a place-based, collective-impact approach to comprehensive community development, SCI provides a wide array of services and resources that help mitigate social, economic, health and environmental stressors that have historically caused barriers for LMI community members to fully thrive in their communities. As the cornerstone of SCI, the NHS Center for Sustainable Communities (CSC) serves as a “one-stop-shop” for community empowerment.

Neighborhood Housing Services of Los Angeles County works to strengthen communities through economic empowerment, sustainable community development, and by helping underserved communities thrive.

Built on the site of a blighted grocery store in Compton, the 28,000 sq ft Center will serve as a hub for nonprofits and feature small business incubators, a health clinic, and community gardens.

Utilizing the model of "What Makes Community?" as our focus, NHS is working with the City of Compton, Pacific Coast Regional, and Metro CDC to create the first of several Centers for Sustainable Communities in South LA. The CSC will help low-to-middle income families in Compton deal with the impacts of divestiture by serving as a hub to provide access to housing, transit, employment, healthy living, and community food resources that make communities stronger and more resilient.

Turning an abandoned, blighted grocery store in Compton into the Center for Sustainable Communities.