Lancaster Equity CDC

MISSION Providing economic opportunity for everyone. VISION Lancaster Equity envisions a Lancaster where communities are stabilized and everyone has an opportunity to thrive, whether that be through living wage work, entrepreneurship, or safe and affordable housing. We are dedicated to building mixed-income, mixed-use communities that create financial ecosystems that build and retain wealth for all community members. Currently, LECDC operates primarily in the south side of Lancaster City, rehabbing blighted houses with CAP’s social enterprise construction crew, CAPital Construction. CAPital Construction is comprised of individuals with barriers to employment. In their position with CAPital, these individuals are taught the soft and hard skills (including lead remediation) that they need to get a construction job in the future and are paid a livable wage. Upon completing a renovation, LECDC either sells those homes to low-moderate income first time home buyers through a program of Lancaster Housing Opportunity Partnerships or acts as a scattered-site landlord depending on the property.