Building Stronger Foundations, One Family at a Time
Our Mission
The West 30’s is an historic neighborhood in downtown Covington, in the heart of the most affluent Parish in our state, St. Tammany. Despite its rich cultural legacy, it remains one of the most underserved and impoverished communities in Louisiana. This ironic disparity has existed for decades without improvement and without much effort by our community.
West 30’s Redemption Company is a faith-based, non-profit organization whose objective is to help lower-income families in the West 30’s community overcome multi-generational poverty. We pursue that goal by facilitating ownership of affordable homes. Through affordable real estate development, we build far more than houses. We help lay the foundation for equity and stability. By focusing on people first, one family and one home at a time, we are redeeming and transforming lives, nurturing hope, restoring dignity, and helping create a thriving, more connected community for everyone.
Over the past nine years, we’ve helped 84 families achieve home ownership. We also partner with local churches, pro bono attorneys, and others to better inform individuals about financial fitness, while assisting with the preparation and execution of wills and other essential legal documents.
We invite you to be part of this work. Whether you choose to volunteer your time or to partner with us financially in advancing this mission, your involvement helps expand opportunity and create lasting impact. Join us in building a future where the West 30’s community thrives with renewed hope, stability, and generational success.
We are a 501(c)3 non-profit organization that was created to help families in the West 30’s overcome multi-generational poverty through ownership of a good quality affordable home. Typical middle class families in America participate in the wealth creation process through the purchase of their home. Following years of payments on their mortgage loan and inflation increasing its value, most families’ largest financial asset is their home. Families who rent all of their lives do not get to participate in that wealth creation process. Helping families become homeowners for the first time is one way they can begin to make the move from poverty toward prosperity. For more detailed information, click here.
The costs of acquiring, renovating and building our houses are typically funded through 75% commercial bank loans and 25% equity, which comes from “Supporter Loans”. The Supporter Loans are typically 2-3 years in term, are unsecured promissory notes that pay 5% interest, and vary in amount. Our smallest Supporter Loan is $1,000 and our largest is $100,000. If you would like more information about our Supporter Loan Program, click that link. There are also opportunities to sponsor families or help support our organization through a tax-deductible gift, click here for more info.
We are thankful for the leadership provided by the Board of West 30’s Redemption Company. The company was founded by Bryan Burns in January 2017 and Bryan now serves as the Executive Director. It is governed by a Board of Directors consisting of 24 Directors who meet quarterly, serve on operating Committees, and they are charged with running the non-profit organization. The Board is an accomplished, diverse, and distinguished group of leaders representing the faith community, business community, non-profit sector, government and community leaders. We pray that their service will be a blessing in their lives and in the lives of those families whom they will serve.
Click on an image to view the bio of the members of the board.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
ASSOCIATE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
