Alma Adams (D-NC12)

  • Appropriations Staffer: Marie Gualtieri
  • marie.gualtieri@mail.house.gov
  • DC Phone: 202-225-1510
  • Last updated: 02/25/2026

Impact in the District

Between 2005 and 2023, there was $823.6 million in total lending from CDFI Fund award recipients, including $330.4 million in loans to businesses and entrepreneurs, $355.3 million in housing development and mortgage lending, $92.9 million in consumer lending, with the balance going to other activities. For more impact data, check out the CDFI Advocacy App over at CDFI Friendly America.

Stories from the District
140 New Construction Senior Apts. serving 30%-80% AMI
  • Charlotte,
  • North Carolina
  • Community Housing Capital
DreamKey Partners, a leading nonprofit developer of affordable housing in Charlotte, North Carolina, has used $1,846,520 of its $13 million line of credit from Community Housing Capital to acquire a 6.3-acre site that will become the Johnston Oehler Senior Apartments. With low-income households currently priced out of Charlotte’s increasingly expensive rental market, the new construction project will create 140 apartments for seniors with household incomes from 30% to 80% area median income. The high-quality, new construction housing will offer an active lifestyle for the residents and a full-time professional property management staff that will serve onsite.
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A Vital Service: Danny Wilson and Profile Building Services
  • Charlotte,
  • North Carolina
  • Carolina Small Business Development Fund
When Danny Wilson was growing up, his dad worked as a janitor at a church. Every weekend Danny would help his dad clean the church, and it’s where he learned both the value of hard, honest work and the importance of cleanliness.
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Charlotte-Mecklenburg Housing Partnership
  • Charlotte,
  • North Carolina
  • Partners for the Common Good
PCG financed single-family homes for Charlotte residents living below 80% AMI.
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DreamKey Partners, Inc.
  • Charlotte,
  • North Carolina
  • The Housing Partnership Network
For over 30 years, DreamKey Partners has worked to bring affordable housing to Charlotte, North Carolina. By expanding the availability of affordable homes through significant real estate development, homeownership programs, and community engagement, DreamKey builds and rehabs multi- and single-family homes, provides homeownership education, organizes lending and community engagement programs, and revitalizes neighborhoods.
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Nourish Up
  • Charlotte,
  • North Carolina
  • CAHEC, LISC
Proceeds will fit out a 19,000 SF commericial kitchen for medically tailored meal production within a 90,000 SF food distribution facility, both of which address food insecurity for low-income people in Charlotte, NC.
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Revitalizing Neighborhoods and Providing Senior Housing in Charlotte
  • Charlotte,
  • North Carolina
  • NeighborWorks Capital
Based in Charlotte, North Carolina, DreamKey Partners has a 33-year history of adapting to serve the changing needs of their community. After neighborhoods were demolished during the so-called “urban renewal” of the late 1960s, DreamKey provided the necessary revitalization work to successfully rebuild neighborhoods. The work continues today with its largest development – Brightwalk, a master-planned community providing affordable homes and economic development opportunities in north Charlotte.
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CDFIs with Branches in the District
Latino Community Credit Union
  • Charlotte Branch I
  • , Charlotte
Latino Community Credit Union
  • Charlotte Branch University City Blvd
  • , Charlotte
Mechanics and Farmers Bank
  • Charlotte Branch
  • , Charlotte
Nova Credit Union
  • Concord Branch
  • , Concord
Nova Credit Union
  • Kannapolis Branch
  • , Kannapolis
Self-Help Credit Union
  • Charlotte - Beatties Ford Rd
  • , Charlotte
Truliant Federal Credit Union
  • Harrisburg Branch
  • , Harrisburg
Truliant Federal Credit Union
  • Mallard Creek
  • , Charlotte
Truliant Federal Credit Union
  • Mint Hill Branch
  • , Mint Hill
Truliant Federal Credit Union
  • University
  • , Charlotte
UP Community Fund
  • Headquarters
  • , Charlotte

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