About

The New Orleans Neighborhood Development Collaborative (NONDC) is a non-profit community organizing, community planning and development organization focused on revitalizing the Central City neighborhood.  Central to our work is our mission to make quality housing affordable. We accomplish this by leveraging community partnerships and private and public funding options.   We believe by building capacity for homeownership among low-income families in Central City, we are stimulating community wealth-building and empowerment. Our team’s cluster development activities in Central City are aimed at restoring desolate blocks into lively areas with new levels of commitment and investment.  Our vision is to create a vibrant Central City by increasing homeownership to 40 percent over the next ten years.

To date, NONDC, LLC has been a partner in the transformation of over 25 vacant and decaying properties into quality affordable housing accessible to existing residents of Central City. NONDC also served as Community Partner on the completion of Harmony Oaks, the 460-unit mixed income redevelopment of the former CJ Peete Public Housing Complex. The project was made possible by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development Hope VI Revitalization Grant awarded to the Housing Authority of New Orleans in March 2008. As Community Partner, NONDC is also responsible for developing 50 off-site, single-family homes in the neighborhood surrounding the complex under the Harmony Homes brand.

NONDC’s comprehensive approach to revitalization also includes resident organizing, community asset building and small-scale commercial development.

Click above to view the 2010 NONDC Annual Report