Secondchance

Introduction

Second Chance Help Center, Inc., Affordable-Housing Division is a 501 ©(3) Grassroots community based organization that works in partnership with the community to provide managed rental housing, home ownership, and rehabilitation to low income citizens of Jacksonville residing families and individuals since 1999.

We receive funds from corporations, churches, synagogues, business, schools, civic organizations, foundations, associations, and individuals, etc. All materials and labor for repairs are through our donors and volunteers. We hope to leave each home having added a bit of dignity to homeowners and their family lives. Our volunteers come from all faiths and walks of life. They represent all types of people united in an effort to assist those in need.

Since Second Chance Help Center, Inc.’s greatest assets are people, our ongoing goal is to promote empowerment within the neighborhood we serve. Significant community development can only take place when local community members are committed to investing themselves and their resources, in efforts to improve their neighborhood.

For low-income renters it has become harder than at anytime since the Great Depression to buy a home or pay rent. For the poor trying to find decent affordable housing has become a disaster the American nightmare.

Since the 1980’s, jobs has migrated from the inner cities to the suburbs, government cutback, the epidemic of illegal drugs and violence, rampant racial and social discrimination in housing and employment, the fertilization of poverty. Home foreclosure soared and homeownership rates declined. Record numbers of households that went too far into debt to buy “The American Dream” lost their homes in a decade when we produced more millionaires than at any time in history. The price of both homeownership and renting increased faster than personal income and inflation. This caused many to rent and rent increased dramatically as renters struggled to keep a roof over their heads. Today, millions of Americans live in over crowded apartments, and millions more pay more than they can reasonably afford for substandard housing.

For low-income renters it has become harder than at anytime since the Great Depression to buy a home or pay rent. For the poor trying to find decent affordable housing has become a disaster the American nightmare