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  • Resurrected Hotel Offers Hope to the City's Downtrodden

    In 1995, the Mark Twain Hotel at Ninth and Pine streets was a derelict building with more fire and water damage than it had fat, leathery cockroaches.  The city wanted to shut down the flophouse and evict its 90 residents.  That's when Harris, 41, a rea...

RHCDA is Regional Housing and Community Development Alliance, a nonprofit organization that creates and supports the alliances that make smart, sustainable neighborhood revitalization possible in the St. Louis region.

"Through funding, financing, training, and just plain hard work, RHCDA has made a tremendous difference in our neighborhood.  When we have questions, they're there.  They give amazing advice.  They stick around.  They even come to our annual neighborhood pot luck dinner, covered dishes in hand." 

- Johnnie Owens, Resident, Old North St. Louis Neighborhood