Purpose of ACP

• To renovate, build, finance and/or otherwise provide assistance in connection with low-income housing developments in one or more cities in the United States;
• To create, promote and/or facilitate jobs, job and apprenticeship training programs, linkage with job opportunities in the public and private construction and manufacturing sectors and other economic opportunities for the poor, needy, homeless and unemployed;
• To enhance the literacy, safety, health, basic skills and economic security of the poor, needy, homeless and unemployed;
• To educate unemployed and underemployed individuals about career opportunities in the construction industry;
• To disseminate job-related information from and to federal, state and local governments, craft unions and the general public;
• To work with and advise national and local public housing authorities, community development agencies and others to promote job training and long-term sound, safe and energy-efficient construction, structural, rehabilitation and maintenance of low-income housing;
• To assist and advise federal, state and local public housing authorities, government entities, community development agencies and other groups regarding strategic and regional planning in order to ensure an adequate supply of community residents, skilled craft-persons and suitable low-income housing throughout the United States;
• To provide technical services and encourage the availability of all types of financial and credit support for job creating and training projects and the economic development of low-income communities; and
• To sponsor, facilitate, and/or fund educational research, seminars, forum and publications in furtherance of the foregoing purpose.