The Missouri Housing Development Commission was established by the 75th General Assembly in 1969. Since that time, MHDC has encouraged and assisted in the production of affordable rental housing and provided homeownership opportunities for thousands of families.
It has invested almost $4 billion in Missouri housing, covering every county of the state, for rental housing developments, home mortgages, home improvement loans, loans to landlords for renovations, grants to neighborhood housing groups and other programs.
MHDC does not build or renovate housing itself; rather, it functions as a bank, providing financing directly to borrowers or through a network of private lending institutions. Most of MHDC's programs operate as a public-private partnership