Overview
LISC Houston helps neighborhoods thrive. We work with residents and community partners to build great places to live, work, and raise families. Our work focuses on six key areas that make communities stronger: developing people, improving places, and growing businesses. We help nonprofit organizations build affordable housing. We share free conferences where neighbors can share ideas and lead change in their own communities. We use proven strategies that work. By bringing people together and focusing on what communities already have, we create real opportunities for families and neighborhoods across Houston and Harris County.
Why it matters
Who gets included matters. Who gets heard matters. Who benefits from the decisions made in your city matters. Inclusion isn't just a value — it's a measure of how well a community is actually working. When more people are in the room, better decisions get made. For everyone.
“LISC Houston strengthens neighborhoods by developing people, places, and businesses.”
Who this is for
You've felt left out or overlooked
Find organizations and resources that center people who are often pushed to the margins.
You're an advocate or ally
Deepen your understanding of systemic barriers and the work being done to dismantle them.
You want your community to be more inclusive
Connect with civic efforts that expand who gets to participate and who benefits.
What the data shows
Go deeper
LISC takes a comprehensive approach to community development that addresses six keys to creating a thriving community for those who live and work in under-resourced neighborhoods:
As part of our mission to work with residents and partners to forge resilient and inclusive communities of opportunity, LISC takes a multi-pronged approach focusing on key levers to impact communities and families.
This free, day-long conference focuses on uplifting, shedding light on, and elevating the voices involved in driving change deep within their neighborhoods across the City of Houston and Harris County.
Our work to build strength and resilence in neighborhoods is guided by a larger vision of community development.
LISC creates accessible opportunities through integrated strategies that develop people, places and businesses.
Drawing on best practices and expertise to enhance the capacity of local non-profit agencies to develop affordable housing.
Supporting an investment strategy in local development by providing loans, lines of credit, grants and recoverable grants, and equity investments to CDCs, nonprofits and mission driven for-profit developers in the greater Houston area.
Influencing critical conversations at the local level and advocating for redevelopment policies that align with best practices in community development.