The Parodneck Foundation

For over Eight decades, The Parodneck Foundation for Self-Help Housing and Community Development, Inc. has played a leading role in providing financial, technical and organizing assistance to New York Citys self-help housing and community development efforts. The mission of The Foundation, a city-wide, tax- exempt, not-for-profit agency, is to provide low and moderate-income residents with resources and capabilities that will enable them to create, own, and/or manage their own housing and improve their neighborhoods. Since 1970, The Foundation has played a pivotal role in helping tens of thousands of low and moderate income households obtain and preserve decent, safe, affordable housing and has provided crucial support to many important planning and community development projects. During the 1970s, The Parodneck Foundation provided funds and technical assistance to residents seeking to purchase buildings from absentee owners in what became the citys first ownership transfer program...