HELP Development Corporation

Our Development Partner

Safe and stable housing is the starting point for addressing the causes of homelessness.

With this in mind, HELP USA, Inc. founded HELPDevCo (HDC) in 1996 to develop and manage quality, permanently affordable, and supportive housing. As a nonprofit affiliate of HELP USA, HELPDevCo has a shared mission of working to ensure that everyone has a place to call home. Specifically, HDC supports the nation’s most vulnerable populations by developing and maintaining housing purposely designed to serve the immediate needs of its residents.

HELPDevCo consistently raises the bar by integrating accessible, innovative, and sustainable design with best-in-class assistive services to provide long-term stability for residents. The firm’s expertise includes:

Tax Credit Deals

Joint Developer Financing

Long-Term Lease Ups

Public-Private Partnerships

Where there are housing needs, HDC is ready to respond. Collaborating with leading architects, lenders, co-development partners, and non-profit service providers on complex projects is the firm’s specialty. When others pass, HELPDevCo steps up—because everyone deserves a place to call home.

Development Projects

HELPDevCo has been serving vulnerable populations through supportive housing projects for nearly three decades. Currently, the firm operates 1,783 permanent affordable housing units across 26 locations in New York City, Upstate New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Philadelphia, PA, Maryland, the District of Columbia, and Las Vegas, Nevada. The footprint of HDC housing options offered for individuals and families continues to expand with hundreds of units in both the construction and development pipelines.

Completed Projects

Walter Reed Veteran Apartments
Perry Point Veteran Village
Crotona Pride House
HELP Philadelphia VI
HELP Woodycrest

Walter Reed Veteran Apartments

The HELP Walter Reed Apartments are a $18MM rehab and adaptive reuse of a building located on the former Walter Reed Medical Campus in Washington, DC. This project, completed in 2019, created 77 permanent supportive housing units for chronically homeless veterans. With long-term housing stability as the goal, the new design incorporated a social services wing ensuring residents have ready access to clinicians and case managers. HELP Walter Reed Apartments has won multiple awards, including the Housing Association of Nonprofit Developer’s Large Tax Credit 2020 Project of the Year and the National Association of Local Housing Finance Agencies 2020 Project of the Year.

Perry Point Veteran Village

Perry Point Veteran Village is a $23MM historic renovation and new construction of single-family houses. Located on the Perry Point Veterans Administration Hospital grounds in Perryville, MD, it was completed in 2018. The development created 75 units of housing for homeless veterans and is supported with a project-based HUD-VASH contract. A second phase of 77 units will close financing and begin construction in late 2023. HELP Perry Point has won multiple awards, including the Affordable Housing Finance Magazine Supportive Housing Project of the Year.

Crotona Pride House

The Crotona Pride House is a $38MM purpose-built new construction complex completed in 2021. Comprised of 84 affordable senior units with an LGBTQ+ preference, the design incorporates a ground floor senior center which is operated by a LGBTQ+ development partner, SAGE USA. Open to the community, the senior center anchors the building in the neighborhood and provides resources to both residents and others in need of assistance.

HELP Philadelphia VI

HELP Philadelphia VI is a $21MM historic renovation of the former Reynolds School in North Philadelphia. Completed and fully leased in 2022, this adaptive reuse project offers 55 apartments for senior veterans with 14 units reserved for homeless veterans. A collaboration with the Philadelphia Housing Authority, HELP Philly VI is a signature building in PHA’s portfolio of redevelopment in the Sharswood neighborhood of the city. In March 2023, the project was selected as a Grand Jury Award Winner for historic renovation by the Preservation Alliance of Greater Philadelphia.

HELP Woodycrest

HELP Woodycrest Apartments is a 48-unit apartment building in the Highbridge neighborhood of the Bronx. Opened in 2017, this $16MM project serves seniors, including reserving 29 apartments for formerly homeless seniors. The building has a social service center, including nursing services, a gym, meeting rooms, lounge and is walking distance to Yankee Stadium.