Poverty Solutions, Inc., founded in 2008, is a non-profit CDFI that designs and deploys programs that empower low-income persons and families to become self-sufficient.
Our programs bridge the gap in poverty by providing financing, financial-education, employment-training, affordable-housing, entrepreneurship-training, microenterprise-financing, health and human services that empower low-income families, veterans, at-risk youths, unemployed, and other underserved adult populations to divest poverty while building healthy communities and meeting the demands of today’s social, economic and technological agendas.
PROGRAMS & SERVICES
Training, Investments and Advocacy that that empower low-income persons and families
P-Solutions promotes Affordable Housing, Community Economic Development Lending, Financial Literacy Training, and Entrepreneurship. We develop financing tools that create access to capital to low-income persons (LIPs) and in low-income communities (LICs) by leveraging private sector investment in LICs at scales sufficient to transform LICs and LIPs. P-Solutions serves some of the most economically distressed communities in California. Some of the large urban counties that P-Solutions serves such as Los Angeles has one of the biggest gap for adequate, affordable, and access to credit.
Entrepreneurship Development
Foreclosure Relief
Clean Energy
health and human services
Commercial Real Estate
Healthy Food
Community Facilities
Housing
Education
New Market Tax Credits
$127 million invested in Low-income communities
$625 million.
Additional capital leverage by projects we finance.
VETERAN SERVICES
Our goal is to offer a successful transition of low-income and/or homeless veterans by providing emergency and supportive housing, food, health services, occupational skills training and placement assistance, financial literacy, entrepreneurship assistance, legal aid and case management support.
According to the HUD/VA supplemental report, veterans are 50 percent more likely to become homeless compared to all Americans, and the risk is even greater among veterans living in poverty and minority veterans. Nearly half of homeless veterans were located in California, Texas, New York and Florida, while only 28 percent of all veterans were located in those same four states.
Poverty Solutions strongly encourages education, self-improvement, self-confidence, self-sufficiency, self-respect, personal responsibility, money management and work ethics while discouraging illegal activities and self-destructive behaviors through our Divest Poverty Workshops.
FEATURED IMPACT STORIES
FORECLOSURE RELIEF
Poverty Solutions, Inc. provides comprehensive financial education from budgeting and saving, debt management counseling and homebuying workshops to foreclosure prevention counseling.
Our unique foreclosure relief program stops eviction and maintains homeownership for families facing foreclosure. Hear from clients about the positive impact we had on their lives.
HOUSING
P-Solutions strategically, invests in projects that provide affordable housing, good jobs, and new opportunities in low-income communities, connecting these neighborhoods to the mainstream economy. The organization believe that low-income communities are entitled to the same expertise and expectations of excellence available to their wealthier neighbors. P-Solutions works to connect underserved communities with mainstream sources of capital. P-Solutions endeavors to stand at the intersection of downtown expertise and community values, working with organizations and individuals from all perspectives to reduce silos and create wealth, opportunities and lasting change. P-Solutions we utilize contracts with the Federal Government, the State of California, and partnerships with private institutions to provide financial, educational, and consulting services. In addition, Poverty Solutions has been certified by the U.S. Treasury as a Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) with primary goals of helping (1) low-income families become self-sufficient; and (2) small business owner succeed.