Urban & Disadvantaged...

"Closed Doors to Opportunity"

"Houston's Enhanced Enterprise Community has twice the normal unemployment rate and nearly half of its residents are living in poverty."

---1997, US Census Data at the time of inception of the EEC

"70% of working-aged disabled persons are unemployed due to lack of services, vocational training, and education."

---Alexander Wood, The Disability Network

"Employers lose between $3-5 billion a year in absenteeism, increased health insurance costs, higher turnover, and lower productivity due to {domestic} abuse."

---Congresswoman Roybal-Allard

UBI serves existing and potential business owners in Houston who find the doors of economic opportunity closed to them because of their age, disability, disadvantages, their transition or recovery, and because they reside or do business in one of Houston's underserved communities.