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Green Hope, Mercy Housing’s environmental sustainability department, and Decatur Place staff recently partnered with Sensor Industries, ProdigyLink, Energy Outreach Colorado, and Mile High Youth Corps to provide water and energy-saving upgrades and community solar subscriptions to Decatur Place residents in Denver. During the first week of November, Sensor Industries and ProdigyLink installed toilet leak sensors,

Senior residents are getting healthy while grooving! McAuley Meadows in California recently introduced a class for line dancing, which is a healthy low impact form of exercise that has the added benefit of creating community among participants. The first class had nine participants and five residents from that group performed the dance at their winter

We’re celebrating the grand opening of Thrive Sweet Auburn on April 26, so save the date! A collaboration between Project Community Connections Inc. (PCCI) and Mercy Housing Southeast, Thrive Sweet Auburn is a mixed-use development in Atlanta’s Old Fourth Ward created to provide operating space for PCCI, a vital nonprofit serving people exiting homelessness, paired

According to National Low Income Housing Coalition research, Georgia has a severe shortage of affordable rental homes for households that are cost-burdened. There is a shortage of more than 200,000 rental apartment homes available for more than 340,000 renter households. This is why Mercy Housing Southeast (MHSE) was thrilled to be awarded a $5M grant

Students across the country saw a decline in math and reading scores due to the devastating impact of COVID. In fact, the pandemic affected nearly every aspect of children’s lives, including their education, social interactions, and their mental and physical health. Students who call Mercy Housing Southeast home had the same experience. However, thanks to

Generating New Funds for Affordable Housing and Homelessness Prevention Housing was very much on the ballot in 2022, with thousands of Californians voting on local measures representing different approaches to tackling the housing crisis. The policies that prevailed last November are now shaping the way cities plan, fund, build, lease, and preserve affordable housing. Mercy

In January, Governor Gavin Newsom released a draft budget for the 2023-2024 fiscal year, which would include modest investments in housing production and homelessness prevention but also makes cuts to existing funding sources. Now, the state legislature is working to revise and pass the budget by June 15, 2023.  From Mercy Housing California (MHC)’s perspective,

S&P Global Ratings, one of the leading providers of credit ratings in the country, has assigned its ‘AA-‘ rating to Mercy Housing. Mercy Housing received this rating with a stable outlook, which is the highest rating to be obtained by nonprofit social housing providers. Substantial due diligence was required to obtain the rating. An issuer

Back in 2014, Ray and Carol Dellecker began contemplating an idea. Wanting to create generational and transformative change for the youth in Bellingham, they knew a quality education was a path to exiting poverty and vastly improving one’s life. They began thinking about the idea of a college savings account. For the next few years,

Last November, Mercy Housing Northwest, in partnership with the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary (SNJM) celebrated the groundbreaking of our first affordable housing community in Oregon. The event was held at Clark Commons on the campus of Marylhurst University in Lake Oswego, which is also the site of this new community.