The BHI Network
Black Home Initiative is a network of nonprofits, private companies, philanthropy, governments and associations making up our region’s ecosystem focused on increasing Black homeownership.
BHI PARTNER PRINCIPLES
We strive to right the wrongs of past discriminatory practices and commit to a focus on doing all we can to ensure Black homebuyers get an opportunity to purchase homes.
We will honor that the complexity of this issue dictates that we work together at new levels of collaboration, embracing a mindset that overcomes the fear of competition for scarce resources.
We embrace the power of hope and trust. While we prefer to know and define every detail about the work, we understand that there will be ambiguity as we name, and endeavor to carry out, the adaptive work before us.
We fully engage in this work, wholeheartedly and with urgency, drawing on the breadth and depth of each of our partner organizations and their respective strengths. We engage in this work because we truly believe it must be done.
BHI NETWORK PARTNERS
Why a Network?
By aligning ourselves in a network, our joint impact can be far greater than the sum of our individual efforts. If our intent is to increase affordable housing supply, prepare Black homebuyers for their journey, support them along the way, and facilitate their ability to live out their homeownership dreams, then our target is systemic change that rights the wrongs of the past and the present and ensures equitable access to opportunity in the future.
Impact networks offer us the power and the pathway we need to achieve fundamental and lasting transformation.
BHI Core Leadership
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Andrea Caupain Sanderson
BIPOC Ed Coalition
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Anna Boone
Zillow
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Darryl Smith
HomeSight
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Felicia Melden
City of Tacoma
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Gregory Davis
Rainier Beach Action Coalition
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Gordon McHenry, jr.
United Way of King County
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Lauren E. McGowan
LISC Puget Sound
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Michael Brown
Civic-Commons
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Michelle Merriweather
Urban League of Metropolitan Seattle
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Nicole Bascomb-Green
Western Washington Realtist (NAREB)
convener For bHI
Civic Commons
Civic Commons works to reimagine civic leadership by stitching together existing networks and evolving decision-making structures to drive cross-sector collaboration. By elevating community voices and uniting different sectors around mutually agreed goals, Civic Commons aims to build the infrastructure and collective muscle needed to address the root causes of our region’s biggest economic and social challenges. To learn more or donate to BHI, visit the Civic Commons website.
