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PRESS RELEASE For Immediate Release: February 3, 2020 Contact: Kate Peterson | 303.830.3443 | kpeterson@mercyhousing.org With the nation’s older adult population growing at a historic rate, a leading affordable housing nonprofit, Mercy Housing has strengthened its essential older adult-health programming in the Southwest thanks to Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust’s $170,000 grant. PHOENIX — Low-income

PRESS RELEASE For Immediate Release:  January 9, 2020 Contact:    Kate Peterson | 303.830.3443 | kpeterson@mercyhousing.org Mercy Community Capital is a leading Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI), and they’ve changed their name, but the mission remains—to work nationally with socially responsible affordable housing and community developers, providing innovative financing arrangements for creditworthy projects where conventional financing

Projects Community Connections, Inc. and Mercy Housing Southeast are partnering to support the city’s efforts to revitalize a historic neighborhood.    For Immediate Release:  December 19, 2019 Contact:   Beth Haynes | 470.639.1315 | Beth.Haynes@mercyhousing.org ATLANTA – A mixed-use development, Thrive Sweet Auburn, which will include 117 affordable housing units and commercial space is coming

SAN FRANCISCO – The Low Income Investment Fund (LIIF), National Affordable Housing Trust (NAHT), Calvert Impact Capital and Mercy Loan Fund (MLF) have partnered to provide capital for the second phase of the $100 million Fund to Preserve Affordable Communities (FPAC) aimed at protecting affordable housing for low-income families across the nation. The partnership will

Mercy Loan Fund provided a land acquisition loan to Community Access for Baez Place Apartments, where 163 units of affordable homes will serve people who have experienced homelessness and those living with serious mental illness. NEW YORK—Mercy Loan Fund (MLF), a national Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI), is working with Community Access (CA) to help

Denver, CO—Mercy Community Capital (fka Mercy Loan Fund) (MCC), a subsidiary of Mercy Housing and a leading Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI), announced today that it has received a CDFI Financial Assistance (FA) program award of $799,000 from the United States Treasury’s CDFI Fund. MCC is one of 284 CDFIs to receive a part of

CONTACT: Kate Peterson | 303.830.3443 | kpeterson@mercyhousing.org Jennifer Robinson |Bon Secours| 864-241-5138 | Jennifer_Robinson2@bshsi.org ATLANTA – Mercy Housing Southeast announces the award of Low-Income Tax Credits (LIHTC) for a 46-unit affordable housing community in Mauldin, SC. Championed by Bon Secours St. Francis Health System and with generous financial support for SC Housing and the Greenville

Illinois Deputy Governor Sol Flores Provides Keynote Address to 350 Chicago-Area Community Leaders Who Support Regional Affordable Housing Initiatives CHICAGO – Mercy Housing Lakefront hosted its annual Moving Forward Together Gala at the Chicago Hyatt Regency Hotel to celebrate significant milestones in advancing its mission to bring affordable housing and supportive services to thousands of

Sunnydale HOPE SF begins construction on second affordable family building at historic mixed-income development San Francisco, CA — Mayor London N. Breed today celebrated the groundbreaking of Sunnydale Block 6, a six-story building that will provide 167 permanently affordable homes for low-income families, including 125 apartments set aside for Sunnydale residents living in public housing.

CONTACT: Mercy Housing Lakefront: Brad Wilks, 312-815-5505, brad@wilksgrp KaBOOM!: Tamara Grider, 202-464-6196, tgrider@kaboom.org CHICAGO – Keurig Dr Pepper (KDP) and the national non-profit KaBOOM! awarded Mercy Housing Lakefront a Let’s Play Community Construction Grant that will be used to provide new playground equipment for children at Marian Park Apartments in Wheaton, Illinois, an affordable housing