Ensuring Stable Housing
Stable housing is an essential part of breaking the cycle of poverty. Because stable families create stable futures for our neighborhood children. Each year, Shepherd Community assists families to find stable housing. In 2025, we helped 84 families find stable housing; 84 families who have names, children, jobs, and futures.
As we launch into the next 40 years, we’re making big moves to help our neighbors build foundations of hope and ensure stable housing:
– Advocating and navigating housing-related challenges like rent, utility, and mortgage assistance when there are gaps in employment, medical needs, or other barriers for our neighbors.
– Teaching our neighbors financial literacy, budgeting, saving, and how to care for their homes.
– Building Foundations of Hope, a partnership with Arbor Homes to build 12 new homes/townhouses in our neighborhood
– Launching a multi-year HomeOwner University (HOU) to mentor and walk alongside neighborhood families to qualify and equip them to purchase and maintain these new Building Foundations of Hope homes in our neighborhood as well as advocate alongside of them after purchase.
– Building Warrick Place Apartments, including 11 apartments and one incredible community space for our neighbors to live in affordably.
– Connecting neighbors to create community with one another.
About Shepherd
Shepherd Community Center has served the near Eastside of Indianapolis since 1985 with a simple but staggering mission: to break the cycle of poverty through a Continuum of Care that meets the physical, emotional, spiritual, and academic needs of our neighbors.
Shepherd offers wrap-around services to our neighborhood children, youth, families, and seniors from cradle to career and beyond through intentional services, programs, and relationships. Shepherd believes that by focusing on building deeper relationships within our Shepherd neighborhoods, we will create a more stable, healthy community for all ages.
Learn more about the mission and values of Shepherd Community by clicking HERE
With stable housing also comes a decrease in crime, community, healthy living, safety, and security. What makes Shepherd’s housing initiative different is how we go beyond housing and into all areas of life, holistically caring for our neighbors’ physical, emotional, spiritual, and academic needs.
Donate $32 a month to build foundations of hope and stability with Shepherd.
Poverty creates isolation; Hope creates community. For 40 years, Shepherd has helped our neighbors create hope. And with your continued support, we will build even stronger foundations of hope for another 40. See how in the below video:
Your generous donation can make a difference as we help ensure stable housing for our neighbors and help them create stability to live lives of hope, free from poverty
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Learn more about the other five neighborhood-specific areas in which Shepherd Community is making a difference:
