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From tutoring to volunteering to teaching kids how to play soccer, El Dorado County’s young people give thousands of hours back to the community each year. Many of those youth recently received Youth Star Awards for their tireless efforts. The El Dorado Hills Community Vision Coalition hosted the ceremony on Dec. 14 at Lakehills Church.

Denver, Colorado (02/04/15)–Mercy Housing Mountain Plains received a $10,000 grant from Bank of America Charitable Foundation. The grant is part of Bank of America’s commitment to help local nonprofit organizations that are addressing the critical issues of affordable housing and neighborhood revitalization in Denver.  Bank of America’s goal is to help individuals and families regain

DENVER, CO – Three Mercy Housing properties were honored with Affordable Housing Finance’s 10th Annual Readers Choice Awards for their innovativeness, community impact and creative problem solving. Mercy Housing Lakefront took home the Preservation Award for Pullman Wheelworks Apartments in Chicago, IL, while Mercy Housing California’s Caroline Severance Manor in Los Angeles and Coastside Senior

MetLife Foundation and Enterprise Community Partners, Inc. (Enterprise) today named Mercy Housing Lakefront and Neighborhood Housing Services of Chicago as recipients of the 2013 MetLife Foundation Award for Excellence in Affordable Housing, lauding the nonprofits’ Roseland Place Senior Apartments. This year’s MetLife Foundation Award focused on connecting senior housing to health care programs, supportive services

The RealNetworks Foundation supports service-enriched housing and we couldn’t be more grateful! Mercy Housing Northwest was honored to receive a grant in the amount of $10,000 early this month, thanks to the generous Board at RealNetworks Foundation. Mercy Housing’s strong presence in the Central Puget Sound region concentrates on providing ongoing support to low-income families.

Community Matters Newsletter – Fall 2012 After completing an extensive renovation and modernization project, Mercy Housing Lakefront’s Harold Washington Apartments in Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood is receiving acclaim for the innovative work to preserve the facility. Harold Washington Apartments is a three-story, nearly 100 year-old property that provides 69 units of permanent supportive housing to very

Community Matters Newsletter – Fall 2012 Mercy Housing Lakefront (MHL) was recently awarded a $250,000 grant from the Polk Bros. Foundation to support affordable rental housing preservation projects in Chicago. This renewed and increased grant will be awarded over the course of two years. Two of the primary projects that have been supported by this

Community Matters Newsletter – Fall 2012 James Hardie Building Products Inc, the world’s leading manufacturer of fiber cement building products, provided a $10,000 donation to support Mercy Housing’s mission. James Hardie has been a trusted materials vendor at many Mercy Housing properties. Steven Davis, Director of Construction at Mercy Housing has said that, “In 25

SAN FRANCISCO — A multi-year effort to revitalize public housing in San Francisco’s Visitacion Valley community has taken a major step forward. The Sunnydale HOPE SF Project developed in partnership with Mercy Housing California (MHC) and The Related Companies of California (Related California) has been selected by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

Two Mercy Housing properties – Harold Washington Apartments in Chicago and Savannah Gardens in Georgia – are finalists for Affordable Housing Finance magazine’s Eighth Annual Readers’ Choice Awards. Subscribers to the magazine can vote for either property online at www.housingfinance.com through August 15. Mercy Housing Lakefront’s Harold Washington Apartments preserves 69 units of affordable housing for formerly