The Voice of the People in Uptown has provided a variety of services to low and moderate income residents of Uptown since its establishment in 1968. As a community-based housing developer, the Voice has concentrated on rehabilitating abandoned and deteriorated housing for this constituency. Although economic development has always been a part of Voice's mission statement, past efforts in that direction have been confined to a job training program in housing rehabilitation skills and a short-lived woodshop business spinoff.