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by Adriana Cargill Governor Bruce Rauner’s proposed budget cuts for supportive housing and other homelessness prevention services will impact more than 12,500 of Illinois’s most vulnerable households, according to Chicago Coalition for the Homeless and Housing Action Illinois. Supportive services, like those offered by Mercy Housing in Chicago, provide safety nets like mental and substance

Please join Mercy Loan Fund in showing your support for CDFIs by signing this letter. The letter closes on April 30th, 2015.

Mercy Loan Fund and MHI California have signed on the NHC Connectivity Working Group policy recommendations. Read the recommendations here: Broadband Connectivity in Affordable Housing–Policy Recommendations.

“I’ve been caring for homeless people for 20, 25 years. And unfortunately, I have failed,” said Dr. Joshua Bamberger, Chief Medical Consultant of Mercy Housing, on April 9th, 2015 in Sacramento, Calif. A reference to failure is not what one would expect to hear from this year’s recipient of the prestigious Beverlee A. Myers Award

Mercy Housing is one of the largest developers of affordable housing and has developed, preserved, or financed nearly 48,500 homes since 1981. Mercy Housing begins with housing, but goes beyond to strengthen the lives of people who call Mercy Housing home. A variety of Resident Service programs are available to residents at many of the

Dear Chairwoman Mikulski, Vice Chair Shelby, Chairwoman Murray, Ranking Member Collins, Chairman Rogers, Ranking Member Lowey, Chairman Latham, and Ranking Member Pastor, Mercy Housing is writing to encourage Congress to pass a full Fiscal Year (FY) FY 2015 THUD Appropriations bill.  Mercy Housing is concerned about the repeated cuts housing and community development programs have

Mercy Loan Fund supports President Obama’s “My Brother’s Keeper” initiative to assist youth in underserved communities

Mercy Housing Supports Colorado House Bill 14-1017 to expand availability of affordable housing

On January 29th, Sr. Patricia McDermott, RSM, a Mercy Housing Board Member, was invited to testify on poverty issues before the Senate Democratic Outreach Committee. Sr. Pat is the President of the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas and has served on Mercy Housing’s National Board of Trustees in several different roles since 1999. Sr.

The government shutdown has dominated the airwaves since work in Washington DC came to a screeching halt 11 days ago. But what does a “government shutdown” mean for organizations like Mercy Housing and, more frighteningly, for the people we serve each day?