Maffitt Cabbage Patch Permanent Housing Program provides case management and collaborative approach to community stabilization for the 5800 block of Maffitt and the surrounding area. The Block Unit partners with Lutheran Family Services and Good Samaritan Center for the Homeless.
The programs collaborative effort with rental property owners to provide affordable housing for families leaving transitional housing has place at least three families into permanent housing. It offers a continued case management support system to help stabilize the families involved, landlords, and the surrounding area.
Maffitt Cabbage Patch Permanent Housing Program also provides a meeting site for neighborhood meetings and serves as an employment/community resource center.
For more information, call (314) 872-7896.
Block Unit #1024 is made up of concerned residents and homeowners in the 4200 and 4300 block of Darby Avenue in the First Ward's southside. Headed by Block Captain, Augusta Graves, Block Unit #1024 has been instrumental in running drug dealers away and the rerouting of school buses which used the street as a thoroughfare for shortcutting.
Committed to maintaining a beautiful and safe street, they were winners of the 1995 National Night Out Program, thereby receiving new porch lights for each house on the block. They have also established a neighborhood flower patch maintained by the block's own, Millie Nelson. Mrs. Nelson's dedication and community service gained her local recognition by being awarded the Mayor's 1996 Neighborhood Award for her contribution to making St. Louis a better community through dedication, hard work, and neighborhood spirit.
The Block Unit meets every second Sunday of each month. Meetings are held in the basement of 5524 Natural Bridge Avenue in the Hamilton Heights Neighborhood Community Room.
For more information, call 389-9982