CHSA Development Builds Houses.
CHSA Development, a subsidiary of CHSA, Inc., is a HUD-certified Community Based Development Organization, and a Community Housing Development Organization. CHSA Development provides master developer services in addition to developing affordable housing.
CHSA Development increases the number of safe, quality, affordable homes through the following strategies:
Our Mission:
To consult, buy, construct and/or develop affordable housing, to prevent blight and to promote and create economic development and reinvestment.
Our Vision:
Creating communities in which safe and quality housing, neighborhoods, and living conditions are available and affordable to all.
Our Major Accomplishments To Date
Savannah Gardens
CHSA Development is the master developer for the Savannah Gardens community. Savannah Gardens is the redevelopment of Strathmore Estates, a 44-acre site that contained 380 units of substandard rental housing that once housed very proud Americans who supported America World War II efforts building Liberty Ships. CHSA Development and Community Housing Services Agency, Inc. (CHSA) collaborated with the City of Savannah and Mercy Housing Southeast to build 685 total units including senior housing, multi-family rentals and single family homes for purchase.
Learn More About Savannah Gardens
ULI Atlanta 27th Annual Awards of Excellence Savannah Gardens
West Savannah
CHSA Development has built nine homes on Cumming Street in West Savannah, using funding from its parent organization, CHSA, Inc. and HUD HOME funds from the City of Savannah. The surrounding property values have stabilized and grown, creating more capital for other property owners along the corridor to invest in needed health and safety upgrades.
Dundee Cottages and the Cove at Dundee
CHSA Development is serving as the Master Developer for the Chatham Savannah Authority for the Homeless, completing development of the Cove at Dundee (for veterans exiting homelessness) and Dundee Cottages (for families exiting homelessness). The Cove at Dundee Final Phase of 12 units was completed in November 2023, and the Dundee Cottages are expected to be complete in early 2025.
Media Coverage
Living the dream: West Savannah has a new neighbor on Cumming Street (08/08/2020) Click Here
City demolishes blighted homes in West Savannah; more on the way (02/19/2020) Click Here
Two more houses torn down on Cumming Street as revitalizing continues in west Savannah (02/19/2020) Click Here
Cumming Street – fight against blight (02/19/2020) Click Here
Affordable housing changes coming to West Savannah (12/19/2019) Click Here
Savannah’s initiative to get rid of blight moving along, first new home almost finished (11/14/2019) Click Here
Ground breaking on first house on Cumming Street to revitalize West Savannah (11/14/2019) Click Here
