Economic development services are program that improve the economic well-being and quality of life for Omaha residents by creating and/or retaining jobs, increasing incomes, and supporting and growing the tax base.

The goals of the the Economic Development program include:

• Building neighborhood economies and supporting housing rehabilitation, new housing development, and public improvements
• Encouraging small enterprises, particularly those offering good and services to neighborhood residents,  to locate or remain within crucial neighborhood business districts
• Improving the commercial building stock of neighborhood business districts and increasing the amount of retail activity in those areas
• Encouraging the start of new small business and the expansion of existing ones in revitalization areas
• Promoting the development of minority-owned and women-owned businesses
• Creating jobs for low-income and moderate-income people

Five programs have been developed by HCD to achieve these goals, and they are: