OUR VALUES AND STANDARDS
- Responding to people with integrity, dignity, compassion and fairness.
- Providing quality, affordable housing.
- Achieving excellence in programs, services and products.
- Having financial integrity.
- Communicating in ways that promote open dialogue and respect.
- Fostering strong partnerships and a collaborative spirit.
STANDARDS KEEP COMMUNITIES AFFORDABLE
Our process includes development standards established over the years that have been designed to maintain project efficiency. What we’ve been able to create at DHI is a mechanism for sound site acquisition and pre-construction planning, as well as strong relationships with financing institutions.
This knowledge combines with cost modeling that enables pre-construction design budgets to intersect with realistic construction timelines
MISSION
Committed to assuring all members of our community have access to quality affordable housing, one home at a time.
VISION
Housing is more than just shelter… it provides access to opportunity. Safe, decent, affordable housing provides an opportunity for people to stabilize their income and create a home for their families. Stable housing can improve school performance, work and social behavior, and allow a family to invest in its health, neighborhood and future.
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WHAT DO WE DO?
DHI develops single-family homes and townhouses for sale to first-time and modest-income homebuyers.
ADDITIONAL PHOTOS TO INCLUDE EXISTING (RICARDO TO PROVIDE)
- BEFORE AND AFTER PICTURES OF REHAB’D HOMES
- FLOOR PLANS
HOW WE DO IT
Downtown housing improvement, inc. Invests federal, state, local and private donations and funds into these pivotal Miami-Dade County neighborhoods through rehabilitation and rebuilding homes. Seeing the potential to redeem these homes as an asset for the neighborhoods. After purchasing or conveyance of the property major renovations of this structure is transformed into a beautiful, energy efficient and safe home, ready to be filled with children’s laughter once again.
DHI stimulates local commerce.
The impact of the DHI objectives reach far beyond the single family purchasing the home. Every community development we build brings revenue for local contractors and partners. Local contractors are employed to complete the work, the city benefits from increased tax revenue, local lenders and title companies benefit from the purchase, and the community has fewer vacancies. DHI helps reverse a slowing economy and troubled job market. Plus new residents bring additional revenue to local businesses when they move in.
Creating healthy neighborhoods is one aspect of developing vibrant communities, which DHI has been committed to this endeavor. Other DHI initiatives include rental rehab projects, blight elimination, transitional housing and creating neighborhood associations.
DHI adds to the progressive landscape of the city.
With thoughtful design, quality eco-friendly materials and strategic planning we build dwellings that will sustain in style and durability for years to come.
Sustainability is the future.
DHI has a social conscience. We build long-term and durable construction with energy efficient appliances. Every new home is receiving cutting-edge technology as we attempt to become greener in the world in which we share.
DHI has a solid track record with all of our partners.
Our goals could not be met without our city leaders, financial partners, neighborhood groups and housing agencies who provide us with tax credits to make our affordable housing communities a reality. Thank you!
Most importantly – DHI is building lives upward.
When families take pride in where they live – they stay and they thrive where they live.
DHI will continue to re-invest its profits into the communities it serves.
Helping you help others.
Helping those in need is serious business. That’s why we take helping you build quality, efficient and cost effective non-profit spaces very delicate.
Just with us, in our mission, are gratified by extending a helping hand, we at Downtown Housing Improvement, INC find the construction needs for low income families.
Our projects are often built on very tight budgets—sometimes even depending on future fund-raising to see a project through to completion. Also, you are very sensitive to the interests and concerns of donors and other constituents, even the media, requiring quality without extravagance.
Downtown Housing Improvement, INC ensures maximum value of each construction dollar through preconstruction services that focus on value management—evaluating the feasibility of a site, working with the design team to find cost efficiencies, reducing schedules (time is money), leveraging buying power and trouble-shooting to avoid conflicts in the field, which are much more costly to fix.
Downtown Housing Improvement, INC also believes strongly in corporate social responsibility and our staff often contributes personal time to non-profit improvement projects such as building housing, improving parks and playgrounds or renovating community centers. These experiences further both our insight into and appreciation for the unique challenges non-profits face in fulfilling the mission to help.
Our Areas of Expertise
The Downtown Housing Improvement portfolio encompasses projects in a variety of areas of market sector expertise. Each expertise area that we serve has its own character with special concerns, key issues and unique business strategies that are all as integral to a project’s success as flawless construction.
Recognizing that each expertise area is specialized, Downtown Housing Improvement offers our clients proven teams with in-depth understanding of the unique issues, complexities and challenges that are part of the culture and nature of each market sector.
We approach each project not simply as a construction services vendor but rather as a valued partner. Thus, your key concerns and business objectives are as much a catalyst for success as accelerated schedules and reduced budgets.
“Thanks to the whole Downtown Housing Improvement team for your efforts on our project. Your on-time delivery of the project—given its challenges, complexity and the tight timeliness—was very impressive.“
Robert Rossetto Real Estate
Safety
Protecting You Our bottom line is that every person who works on, visits or is affected by our projects needs to return home safe every night. Ensuring the safety of our work sites is the most important service we provide, not only to our clients but also to our employees and subcontractors and the public in and around our active construction sites.
Given this important responsibility, we set a higher standard for safety excellence than that required by the letter of the law. We often partner with OSHA and other safety professionals to exceed safety thresholds throughout both our firm and the industry. At Downtown Housing Improvements , 85% of our project managers and superintendents are OSHA trained and certified.
Similarly, we recognize that we are an extension of our clients in the view of the public and any neighbors to our project sites. We deeply respect the role we play in upholding the public perception and value of our clients’ brands and institutions.
We also take our stewardship of the environment very seriously. Environmental controls and protection are a meaningful part of our project-specific plans and a strong focus of our staff.
“Safety is our foremost responsibility regardless of a project’s size, complexity or schedule. From field staff to executive management, our organization is dedicated to the health and safety of all persons and property associated with our construction projects.“
Agueda Perez, CEO