Oakridge Neighborhood: A Community to Call Home
Safe, affordable housing coupled with wraparound services to create opportunities for individual and family success. A nonprofit housing and human services agency located on 17 acres in Des Moines’ urban core, Oakridge has served the communities’ most vulnerable children and families since 1969. Oakridge is more than just a housing facility, it’s truly a neighborhood, a community of people gaining stability while preparing for the next step in their life’s journey. Welcome! We invite you to learn more about our mission and our stories.
Living at Oakridge
Our neighborhood is Iowa’s largest project-based Section 8 housing complex with 300 units. Our campus also includes Silver Oaks, which offers 39 senior living apartment homes.
Learning at Oakridge
Oakridge Neighborhood provides more than safe, affordable housing. It provides a wide variety of programs and wraparound services to engage and support residents and others in the community on their personal paths to self-sufficiency.
Donate to Oakridge
Whether large or small, every donation makes a difference. Click on this section to make a donation.
Jazz, Jewels & Jeans
Mark your calendar for our signature annual fundraiser, where Jazz rolls, Jewels sparkle, and Jeans — encouraged! All to benefit the incredible programs of Oakridge Neighborhood, including our new Oak Studio, a Best Buy Teen Tech Center at Mainframe.
Save the date for our 2024 event!
Friday, September 13, 2024
Mainframe Studios
Stay tuned for details!
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