Our Accomplishments

Our team has been nationally recognized by previous and current national,state, and local administrations. Some of our accomplishments include:

  • » Significant reduction in crime /blight from the highest crime zip code to the safest
  • » Partnerships with educational organizations that lifted the worst failing students in the city to 69% of the student population (3,773 students) are now in the higher preforming schools our city and state
  • » Eliminated major gang influence and drug activity via federal and local task force
  • » Increased home-ownership rates of minority families
  • » Created public policies and procedures to provide gap funding for community to afford homes
  • » Facilitated over $10 million of assistance to local non profits in beginning of project that has tripled
  • » Created a real estate base for housing development from affordable homes to luxury housing
  • » Created a land-bank for seized properties to prevent gentrification
  • » Lowest crime and poverty rate of the city’s distressed communities
  • » Removed/ redeveloped over 400 vacant, abandoned parcels into affordable homes
  • » Provided workforce development, life skills, and spiritual mentoring for young men on probation
  • » Increased number of youth and children involved in after-school and mentoring programs
  • » Created public/private partnerships to leverage government funds by 4:1 with private funds
  • » Built inter-faith based coalitions to create “collective impact” inter-faith based models
  • » Trained and empowered neighborhood residents and leaders with the tools and support to impact their neighborhoods
  • » Created partnerships with neighborhood associations and inter-faith groups to facilitate the transformation of lives
  • » Increased the number of affordable housing units
  • » Increased the amount of private loans and grants invested in the community
  • » Planted missionary care families in each key neighborhood
  • » Created the environment and number of housetops needed for private businesses to relocate to area and create jobs
  • » Created base for more than $4 Billion of investments in local community

"Norm Henry is one of our state and nations top affordable housing experts and a man of unquestioned integrity. In my almost twenty years of a working relationship with him, his servant leadership has brought real transformation to Dallas inner city.”

Bobby Page - CEO, JPI Real Estate

Economic Transformation

Our model for economic transformation begins with data maps which give information about each property in the target area and which properties contribute to blight or success of community development. The phases are:

  • 1. Reclaiming the physical properties of the community
  • 2. Re-knit the community through strategic partnerships, and
  • 3. Re-new the hope and hearts of the communities through the provided workforce development, life skills, and mentoring and social programs