About Us
Human Resources Development Foundation

In 1968, members of the Bering Drive Church of Christ in Houston,
Texas, established the Human Resources Development Foundation  
(HRDF) as an independent, all volunteer, nonprofit, tax-exempt public
foundation (501(c) (3)).  HRDF is supported by foundations,
individuals, corporations and more than 20 local churches
representing nine denominations.  HRDF does business as
Hospitality Apartments - HRDF..
Beginning in 1968, HRDF recognized the need to provide housing
assistance to patients from out of town who needed to stay in the
Houston area for long-term out-patient care from hospitals in the
Texas Medical Center.  To meet that need, the Foundation rented a
small "army barracks" which was converted into four small
apartments.  These were the very first Hospitality Apartments.
First Hospitality Apartments 1968 - 1982
In 1983, Hospitality Apartments began to expand and by 1995 had
become a $2 million dollar, 42-unit, modern, four-building apartment
complex located half a mile south of the Texas Medical Center. This
was the second Hospitality Apartments.
Second Hospitality Apartments 1983 - 2007
After 39 years of effective service in the same place, a half mile south
of the Texas Medical Center, Hospitality Apartments was relocated.  
MD Anderson Cancer Center wanted to build a new four-lane
extension of Bertner Avenue south that would connect its hospital
buildings to a new medical research park just south of Old Spanish
Trail.  The new road passes directly through the middle of the old
property.  MD Anderson swapped adjacent land it owned outside the
roadway for HRDF property and paid HRDF $1.59 million, the
appraised value of the four-building complex.  HRDF then raised
another $2.5 million from private sources to cover the construction of
a new, expanded, more ADA-compliant, environmentally friendly
apartment complex of 46 units on the new site which is adjacent to
the old site.
Current Hospitality Apartments 2008
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"'You shall love
the Lord your
God with all your
heart, and with
all your soul,
and with all your
mind.'  This is
the greatest and
first
commandment."

Matthew
22:37-38