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“Everyone at Mercy Housing California feels enormous pride whenever we complete a new affordable housing community for low-income residents,” said President Doug Shoemaker, Mercy Housing California, the master developer. “But there is an extra special feeling we all share when we open a new community for formerly homeless and disabled veterans. Mather Veterans Village is our second veterans housing community in California and it would not have been possible without the amazing group of collaborative partners who worked tirelessly to turn this veterans village concept into a beautiful reality.”

As a result of years of collaboration between Mercy Housing California and its partners, 50 disabled and/or previously homeless veterans now have a beautiful, new place to call home. Across the country, Mercy Housing is creating affordable homes like these for deserving people in our community thanks to the support and donations from people like

“I had no intention of going into affordable housing,” says Katayoon Montazemi. “My background was in commercial real estate management.” But when Katayoon volunteered to help lease homes at Mercy Housing in Los Angeles, CA, in 2014, she was hooked. “I fell in love with Mercy’s mission and affordable housing,” she says. “It was the

The 2015 Mercy Housing Annual Report is now available! At Mercy Housing, we recognize that safe, affordable, service-enriched housing helps people invest in themselves and their communities. On behalf of our eight Sponsor Communities, our Board of Trustees, and everyone who works at Mercy Housing, we thank you. Thank you to our donors, financial partners,

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 7/1/2016 Contacts below Wheatland, CA—Mercy Housing and the City of Wheatland celebrated the completion of the reconstruction of Sunset Valley Duplexes in Wheatland, Calif. on June, 29, 2016. These 88 affordable rental homes are much needed as the state and national affordable housing crises continue, and in many places worsen. Supported by

Mercy Loan Fund recently partnered with Mercy Housing California to preserve rare affordable homes for families at Casa San Juan, a community in Oxnard, Calif. Casa San Juan provides affordable housing to people like Elizabeth, who left an abusive relationship after 11 years and found it hard to find a home she could afford for herself and her four children. “When I heard that my application had been accepted, I was so very, very happy. It was one of my happiest days in many years…Without Casa San Juan, I don’t know where I would be. I might be dead. I might be homeless.”

As a social worker who has helped people with low incomes in the San Francisco area for more than 25 years, Sister Patsy Harney has a lot of stories to tell. Known for introducing computers into many low income communities in 1999, Sister Patsy is widely referred to as the “Cyber Nun.” As a Resident Services

“Partnerships such as ours with Community Housing Capital benefit communities that are struggling to find safe, affordable housing in such a tight housing market,” said Jason Battista, President of Mercy Loan Fund. “We’re excited to be part of such an ambitious community-building endeavor.”

Mercy Housing, a national nonprofit affordable housing developer and service provider, has embarked on a mission to create affordable senior housing despite the lack of capital funding for such projects. To accomplish their mission, they have turned to a novel private capital finance structure. By using this uncommon funding approach, as part of their Senior Health and Housing Initiative, they hope to acquire existing buildings and convert them into affordable, service-enriched housing in a fraction of the time it typically takes to complete such projects.

  Jerome’s Furniture spreads generous holiday cheer by providing significant funding to housing developer, Mercy Housing, to help low income residents For Immediate Release: December 17, 2015 For Information Contact: John Vlautin SpinLab Communications jv@spinlab.net 818-763-9800 LOS ANGELES, Calif. – December 17, 2015 – Mercy Housing California, one of the largest non-profit affordable housing developers