Westown Jubilee Housing

Name

Westown Jubilee Housing

Legal name

Westown Jubilee Housing

Website

https://wjhousing.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2009

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Affordable Housing Services

NAICS

Residential Remodelers (236118)

SIC

General Bldg Contractors - Residential Bldgs (1520)

akta.pro primary industry

Affordable Housing & Community Development (Housing, Community Land Trusts) (BPAGALAC)

akta.pro secondary industry

Public Housing & Social Housing Development/Modernization Programs (FSALAKAH)

Keywords

• Affordable housing renovation
• Sweat equity homeownership
• Volunteer construction programs
• Community housing rehabilitation
• Nonprofit housing services

Headquarters

HQ city

Grand Rapids

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Others

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

Westown Jubilee Housing is a faith-based nonprofit that organizes community volunteers to rebuild deteriorating houses on the Grand Rapids West Side. Its primary offering is the Homesteader Home Program, through which low-income families gain homeownership by contributing sweat equity to the renovation of a house built for them. The organization also maintains renovated rental properties and coordinates volunteer groups from churches, schools, and community organizations to perform demolition, painting, landscaping, and finishing work.

Product overview

Westown Jubilee Housing is a nonprofit housing organization that operates a unified community development program focused on rebuilding deteriorating housing on the Grand Rapids West Side. Their primary offerings include the Homesteader Home Program (a homeownership initiative that provides families with sweat-equity homes rebuilt through volunteer support), a Rental Property Program (maintaining and renovating affordable rental units), and a Volunteer Program (coordinating community volunteers from churches, schools, and organizations for project work). The organization has completed 54 homesteader homes as of the most recent update, with ongoing projects documented through their website.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Homesteader Home Program

Quantifiable outcome

• Over 54 homes renovated and families provided with homeownership opportunities since founding

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Habitat for Humanity International: The dominant nonprofit affordable-housing organization using a volunteer- and sweat-equity-driven model to build and rehabilitate homes for low-income families, the same core mechanic that WJH employs.
• Rebuilding Together: National nonprofit focused on repairing and rehabilitating homes for low-income homeowners using volunteer labor, directly comparable to WJH's home renovation and community-revitalization mission.
• Fuller Center for Housing: Faith-inspired nonprofit that builds and renovates simple, decent homes with volunteer labor and partner-family sweat equity — a near-direct model match for WJH.

Broad incumbents

• Enterprise Community Partners: National community-development nonprofit deploying capital, programs, and policy work to create affordable housing and revitalize neighborhoods — overlaps with WJH's mission but at a national scale.
• Mercy Housing: Large national nonprofit affordable-housing provider developing, owning, and operating rental and homeownership housing for low-income families — same beneficiary population as WJH but at significantly greater scale.
• Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC): Major national community-development financial institution supporting affordable housing and neighborhood revitalization, comparable to WJH's mission but operating through capital deployment rather than direct construction.

Others

• Neighbors for More Neighbors (West Michigan housing advocacy): West Michigan-based housing advocacy and education organizations working on the same housing-affordability and neighborhood-revitalization themes as WJH, although through policy and education rather than direct construction.
• World Renew (housing rehabilitation programs): Faith-based nonprofit that organizes volunteer teams for home repair and rehabilitation projects in distressed communities — similar faith-driven volunteer housing-repair model as WJH.

Regional players

• Habitat for Humanity of Kent County: The local Grand Rapids-area Habitat affiliate operating in the same West Michigan geography, addressing similar affordable-homeownership needs through volunteer-driven construction.
• Detroit Blight Authority / Make Communities: Michigan-rooted organizations focused on rehabilitating deteriorated housing stock in distressed neighborhoods, conceptually similar to WJH's blight-elimination and homeownership work.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/westown-jubilee-housing

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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