Maple Avenue Economic Development Corporation
					(left) MAEDC built the first new home in the Maple Avenue area in over 50 years.
		Founded in 1982, Maple Avenue Economic Development Corporation (MAEDC) is one of Dallas’ oldest non-profit providers of affordable housing. Over the years MAEDC’s efforts have helped transform the Maple Avenue neighborhood by filling weeded lots with new single family homes creating a police storefront, and building a community center. MAECD’s new project, a 10 home development in Maple Heights, will help low-to moderate-income families realize homeownership in an area where gentrification is rapidly driving up housing costs.
		MAEDC is pioneering a new form of affordable housing development. Trinity Union's winding streets, abundant green space, and well-integrated multi-family units flout the convemtional cookie-cutter approach to residential development where "low-income" units are placed in undesirable locations.