HISTORY
Neighborhood Housing Services of New Orleans (NHS) was founded in 1976 by a group of banking industry leaders seeking to increase consumer understanding of the mortgage process. In 1978, the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation, a congressionally chartered community development intermediary (now NeighborWorks America), chartered NHS as a member of its national network of community-based organizations seeking to revitalize inner-city neighborhoods. NHS has had many important successes, including providing quality homebuyer education, credit counseling, and housing construction services to thousands of local residents, and playing a central role in the revitalization of the now-thriving Freret Street corridor.