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Throughout the month of May, we are taking the opportunity to invite team members to share anecdotes about our historic properties. We are uncovering fascinating recollections around lovingly restored apartment units that once occupied classrooms full of students and the summer romances that bloomed within the hushed walls of the local library. You can follow…
Community Housing Initiatives works to make Iowa communities safe, inclusive places to live for everybody based in our conviction that people should be treated with care and respect. Recently, we were all dismayed as murals sponsored by our community development program in Des Moines were defaced by symbols of hate. We reject this destructive vandalism…
This summer, Stacie Phillips has been hard at work bringing something back in the Capitol Park neighborhood on Des Moines’ East Side. At the immediate level, she’s been working bring back a porch that historically would have been on the front of a home on East 13th Street. Or getting those bathroom walls adjusted so…
If you’ve passed a 1905 two-story house on Cleveland Street near E. 13th Street lately, you’ve probably noticed something striking about the place: A new mural by Joseph “Sentrock” Perez was installed at the end of June. It depicts a masked figure nearly 15 feet tall speaking the words “We learned to fly without wings.” …
New $500,000 award will support range of housing, public art and infrastructure work Community Housing Initiatives, CHI, has announced receipt of a new $500,000 grant award to support the Viva East Bank neighborhood revitalization initiative focused on Des Moines’ Capitol East, Martin Luther King Jr. Park, and Capitol Park neighborhoods. The funds will support numerous…
Community Housing Initiatives, Inc., a statewide housing nonprofit, celebrated the rehabilitation of its first rehabilitated home in Des Moines' Capitol Park neighborhood Nov. 1 with an open house for the community. The home is a 1908 four bedroom 2 1/2 story property on E. 12th Street. "The home is beautiful, and it's been through…