In 1980, riots in response to police brutality destroyed over $10 million worth of property in Miami’s Liberty City neighborhood and led to the loss of over 3,000 area jobs. The Tacolcy Economic Development Corporation—now known as TEDc—was created in 1982 in response.

Our founders quickly realized that without affordable housing, members of the community were surviving—but they weren’t thriving. Just 7 years later, TEDc opened the doors to its first-ever community. With 121 units, Edison Towers was the first affordable rental community built in Liberty City in over 20 years and one of the first in Florida to use tax credits for the development.

Since then, TEDc has continued to respond to the need for affordable, senior, and workforce housing, out of our belief that an inclusive economy requires affordable places for people to live.

Our vision for the communities we serve hasn’t wavered since the early days. We continue to empower people to reach their potential because we:

• Create places to live and work that nurture an inclusive economy
• Honor our commitment to the people, neighborhoods, and partners who work with us
• Contributing to the sustainable progress of communities of modest means

TEDc is a woman- and minority-led organization with its origins in the exceptionally diverse city of Miami. We work hard to make sure that we consider all people, all cultures, and all nationalities in everything we do.

TEDc is a nonprofit organization that prides itself on operating like a business, and we have the results to prove it.

While our roots—and our headquarters—are in Miami, we now serve communities from North Carolina to Florida.

These are the principles that inform our work every day, whether we’re negotiating a multi-million dollar contract or answering a resident’s call about a broken faucet. We check in with ourselves regularly to see if we’re living up to the high bar we’ve set for ourselves.