Intro

MHHD: Building Communities One Home at a Time

At Mercy Housing and Human Development, our principal goal has always been to provide home ownership opportunities to families whose income is between 30 percent and 80 percent of local HUD median income.   Since Hurricane Katrina in 2005, our focus has been to ensure adequate, affordable housing for all people on the Mississippi Coast.

By collaborating with other organizations having similar missions and values, MHHD uses integrated strategies to provide housing, community and economic development for low-wealth families of Mississippi.

Through research, analysis, advocacy, direct services and community organizing, MHHD responds to contemporary needs.

Since its founding in 1997, MHHD has helped first-time home buyers purchase homes.  The value of houses bought since that time now tops $6.3 million.  Grants toward these purchases, awarded to prospective home buyers by MHHD, exceed $1 million.

At Mercy Housing and Human Development, not only are we lighting the path toward home ownership, but we are staying involved with the families post-purchase with programs that promote home maintenance end continuing financial stability.  

We strive to empower communities through home ownership and to enable families to build better lives.