Photos: GEPHDC
						Southside Low-Income Housing Development Corporation
							(left) An apartment complex developed by Southside CDC.
		Southside: El Segundo Barrio
		The community of South El Paso is one of the first Chicano neighborhoods in the United States. It is a low-income community known for its sense of community and pride. It faces pressures for commercialization and industrialization because it is located between the expanding central business districts of both El Paso and Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. Southside Low-Income Housing Development Corporation is a key to positive change in the barrio. Southside has helped bring about an ongoing regeneration of the neighborhood with new homes and businesses as well as educational and social institutions. Incorporated in 1977, Southside Low-Income Housing Development Corporation is a nonprofit community-based organization with a board of directors comprised of ten low-income residents of El Segundo Barrio. The corporation works to attract public and private financial resources to build affordable housing. Southside has built six apartment properties with thirty-eight units of cooperatively managed housing, including several made of adobe (material that provides for a more energy-efficient home). Southside’s multi-family homes were designed by architect Mack Caldwell with the participation of community residents. The apartments range from efficiencies to three-bedrooms. They house residents who participate in a self-help program, including senior citizens, persons with special needs, farm workers, and single female heads of household. Southside matches grant money with loans from the City Rehabilitation Program and from local lending institutions to build the houses.
		(below) Board of Directors of Southside Low Income Housing Development Corporation