HO-CHUNK HOUSING AND COMMUNITY

Other services:in addition to the organization's primary services of rental management and home ownership, the organization coordinated community programs that included community clean up events in 7 communities, management of 2 community centers. Hhcda continued the growth of community organic gardens in the affordable housing sub-divisions. The community gardens include organizing community members in the low-income communities to teach them not only gardening but nutrition and food sovereignty. Hhcda purchased a resource center that is used to store personal care items as well as holding classes for canning, seed saving, and making maple syrup. A green house was also constructed in order to start seeds that were saved for the community gardens.the organization is also operating a 10-unit veteran supportive housing apartment building, which provides supportive housing to native american veterans that are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless. Supportive services are coordinated with the local, state and federal, social services and veteran affairs offices. Hhcda also managed 51 rental units for the ho-chunk nation. The veterans supportive housing units and ho-chunk nation rental units were turned back over to the ho-chunk nation in 2024.