The Housing Authority mission:

Our mission is to provide and develop quality affordable housing opportunities for individuals and families while promoting self-sufficiency, empowerment and neighborhood revitalization.

The Housing Authority values:

• Housing as a basic human right. We strive to provide decent, safe, sanitary and affordable housing through education, advocacy, new construction, preservation, rehabilitation, acquisition and innovative housing opportunities for low-income and special needs populations. We believe that everyone deserves to have a place to live and with that place comes basic responsibilities of paying rent, maintaining the property and not disturbing the neighbors’ right to peaceful enjoyment of their environment. We believe in helping individuals maintain their housing assistance.

• Respect for all individuals.We believe that all individuals can and want to contribute to their fullest potential. We value differences. We inspire and enable people to achieve high expectations, standards, and challenging goals. We serve individuals with respect, fairness, consistency, and promote independence and self-sufficiency based on an individuals ability, and by fostering meaningful participation, involvement, and responsibility while maintaining confidentiality.

• Employees. We encourage a positive environment and consistently implement policies, procedures, and practices that promote and encourage employee well being, productivity, and empowerment while offering fair compensation.

• Personal mastery. We believe it is the responsibility of all employees to seek to continually develop the skills and abilities necessary for satisfactory job performance and personal and professional advancement. We expect and encourage technical mastery and excellence in the performance of job tasks and in fulfillment of our goals and objectives. We are honest with employees about their job performance.

• Excellence. We strive to be the best in all areas of strategic importance to our mission, goals, and objectives. We promote openness and communication, sharing of ideas, and taking calculated risks. We benchmark performance rigorously against internal and external objectives. We learn from both our successes and failures. We expect employee performance consistent with their job descriptions, and in compliance with applicable laws, guidelines, regulations, goals, and objectives. We standardize and streamline employee tasks whenever possible to achieve stated goals and objectives.

• Collaboration. We work together with confidence and trust across functions. We take pride in sharing our best practices and learning from our failures and challenges. We build superior relationships with all parties, including our tenants, co-workers, suppliers, and internal and external partners. We actively involve other organizations in improving the quality of life for members of our community through shared objectives and reciprocal values.

• Accountability. We believe in operating in a fiscally responsible manner and promoting the efficient use of resources. We strive to provide energy efficient and accessible housing.

• Creative Problem-Solving. We promote openness and communication, share ideas, take calculated risks, are accountable, and learn from our mistakes.