WHO WE ARE 

Our mission is to make the Bronx a more beautiful, equitable and economically vibrant place to live and raise a family.

WHEDco was founded in 1991 with the vision of restoring the South Bronx to the beautiful, bustling place it once was for upwardly mobile immigrant families. During the dark days of the 1970s, scores of magnificent buildings were boarded up, left to burn or simply demolished, and hospitals, firehouses and schools were shuttered as a result of the city’s ill-conceived economic policies.

To fulfill our vision of renewal, WHEDco’s first project was the renovation of the long-abandoned Morrisania Hospital complex in order to provide low-income families with affordable homes and interconnected, high-quality solutions to the obstacles they face.

In partnership with neighborhood leaders, WHEDco developed that ravaged site into the award-winning Urban Horizons Economic Development Center. We also catalyzed the construction next door of a public school, the Rafael Hernandez Dual Language Magnet School (PS/MS 218), which serves the residents of Urban Horizons and the surrounding community.