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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

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

Your support of Mercy Housing allows for more affordable homes to be built across the country. And in 2023, new affordable communities are on the way, thanks in part to our supporters that keep Mercy Housing a strong organization! 1280 apartments were completed in 2022, and we also broke ground on our first building project

Last summer, a Northern Illinois Food Bank truck pulled up to Mercy Housing Lakefront’s Batavia Apartments in Batavia, IL., loaded with donated food. For Batavia Apartments Resident Services Coordinator Lynn, it was a welcome sight. Margaret Perrault, the CEO of the Batavia Chamber of Commerce had helped to coordinate the donation drop off and reached

Dear Friends, 2022 was an exciting year for Mercy Housing as we celebrated our 40th anniversary. We broke ground on our first affordable housing communities in Oregon and South Carolina, increasing the number of states where we operate to 21. We also celebrated the launch of the Mercy Housing Endowment, thanks to the Congregation of

Jim Alexander, a Mercy Housing resident in Georgia, is a documentary photographer, photojournalist, activist, and teacher– he is best known for being a “Participant Observer” for his photographs of human rights and black culture. He was the first artist selected in the annual “Master Artist” program conducted by the City of Atlanta Office of Cultural

2023 is off to an exciting start for Mercy Housing. We were recently named one of only four recipients of the inaugural ESG Gamechanger Award, presented by one of the top accounting firms in the U.S., CohnReznick. What is the ESG Gamechanger Award? This Award is presented to an organization/individual that has shown an ongoing