Kentucky Housing Corporation (KHC) awards the special designation of Community Housing Development Organization (CHDO) to select nonprofit housing agencies that have an existing partnership with KHC and a proven record of producing HOME-funded affordable housing projects in their service areas. Essentially, a CHDO is a nonprofit, community-based service organization that has significant capacity to develop affordable housing for the community it serves. Among the CHDOs in Kentucky is Habitat for Humanity of Henderson, which is the first and currently the only Habitat in the Commonwealth to receive this special designation.

To learn more about CHDOs and the associated benefits, we sat down with two administrators from Habitat for Humanity of Henderson —Executive Director Britney Smith and Chief Operating Officer Matt Reynolds — and two administrators from KHC — Curtis Stauffer, managing director of Housing Contract Administration (HCA), and Keli Reynolds, assistant director of HCA Single-Family Programs. In about a decade, Habitat of Henderson has gone from being an organization with the capacity to build one home per year to an organization with the capacity to build five. With the help of the CHDO designation, Britney and Matt are making a significant contribution to affordable housing opportunities in their community.

To learn more about becoming a CHDO, visit https://www.kyhousing.org/Partners/Developers/Single-Family/Pages/Community-Housing-Development-Organizations.

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Habitat for Humanity of Henderson