Virginia Community Development Fund

1840 West Broad Street, Suite 200
Richmond VA, 23220-2151


The Virginia Community Development Fund (VCDF) was formed in 1996 as a subsidiary of the Virginia Community Development Corporation (VCDC). It is a housing loan fund that makes market and near-market rate pre-development and construction loans to public and non-profit affordable housing developers. It focuses on providing capital to developers serving the hard to house low-income populations, particularly families, those in isolated rural communities, the elderly and special needs populations.

CDFI Awards for Virginia Community Development Fund


NMTC (2009) - $35,000,000

The Virginia Community Development Fund (VCDF) will use its NMTC allocation to finance real estate projects in qualified, Low-Income Communities. VCDF currently partners with many community-based organizations in providing debt, equity, and technical assistance in support of creating or rehabilitating housing and historic projects in Virginia. VCDF provides pre-development and construction loans that focus on the development of mixed-use real estate transactions that complement the existing development efforts of its community-based sponsors. VCDF will continue to facilitate the rehabilitation of historic, downtown structures that offer a mix of commercial and residential uses.



SECA (2001) - $184,000

The profile for this award is not currently available.



SECA (1998) - $49,960

The Fund"s $49,960 Technical Assistance grant will pay for board development and training, a market analysis to determine VCDF"s target markets" most pressing credit needs, and the subsequent development of priority loan products.



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