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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
- Mahatma Gandi
laurie ramos' story
Six years ago, Laurie Ramos was seeking American citizenship and a better opportunity for her husband and three children when she left her family in the Philipinnes to come to the United States. With an American-born son and a baby on the way, the eighteen-year-old found herself struggling to survive on Section 8 vouchers to rent a run-down apartment in a crime-ridden neighborhood in Yorktown, Virginia. In 2001, Community Housing Partners purchased the facility and rehabilitated it into The Woods of Yorktown, a vibrant family-friendly community that is a safe home to more than 200 children. Today, Laurie gives back to her community by cultivating beautiful roses outside of her home.
"When I moved in, I had nothing and was pregnant, but I had a feeling that something good was going to happen."
-Laurie Ramos
redefining affordable housing
our management
kimberly strahm
Director of Corporate Development
Community Housing Partners
448 Depot Street
Christiansburg, VA 24073
(540) 382-2002 ext. 3310
(540) 382-1935 fax
kstrahm@chpc2.org
Kimberly Strahm is now the Director of Corporate Development at CHP, but began her employment with the organization in early 2009 as grant administrator for a $3.8 million U.S. Department of Labor Energy Training Partnership grant. The grant program, CREATES, is a training partnership and workforce collaboration between CHP and six regional partners.
Before joining CHP, Kimberly was with Cornell University’s Real Estate Department and worked to develop affordable homeownership programs for University staff and faculty. Kimberly also spent six years at the Federal Home Loan Bank of Seattle with responsibilities for managing the down-payment assistance grant program for low-income, first-time homebuyers, and reviewing grant applications for affordable housing development projects in an eight state region.
Kimberly has a bachelor’s degree in Industrial Relations from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
