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Mercy Housing California dedicated two new affordable housing communities in Sacramento this month — Ardenaire Apartments on May 15 and Martin Luther King, Jr. Village on May 21. Ardenaire Apartments is a 53-unit property for low-income individuals and families. Nineteen of the refurbished, affordable apartment homes are for formerly homeless families and individuals. Martin Luther King, Jr. Village consists

More than 200 volunteers and supporters helped Mercy Housing Colorado celebrate the dedication of the Aromor Apartments, a 66-unit supportive housing property for formerly homeless adults, on Saturday, May 16. Volunteers dressed each apartment. Activities included hanging shower curtains, making beds, dressing kitchens and bathrooms, and decorating halls and common spaces. Not only did these

Mercy Housing made the cover of the May 2009 issue of Affordable Housing Finance! Not only were we ranked #5 of the Top 50 Affordable Housing Owners and #23 of the Top 50 Affordable Housing Developers; Sister Lillian Murphy, RSM, Mercy Housing CEO, and Mercy Housing were featured in several articles, including Donna Kimura’s “Keeping

A message from Mercy Housing President, Dick Banks…
As Mercy Housing ventures further into this challenging year, I want to offer my perspective on how Mercy Housing has grown as an organization.

Mercy Housing Colorado will now be able to develop new affordable homes and provide supportive programs for low-income seniors, families and people with special needs in the Denver Metro area, thanks to a $25,000 grant from The Denver Foundation.     The grant was awarded as part of The Denver Foundation’s Community Grants Program. It

Low-income families, seniors and people with special needs from San Francisco to Atlanta will have more safe, quality affordable housing and programs to help them improve their lives, thanks to a $500,000 grant from Bank of America and Bank of America Charitable Foundation.   The award is the second part of a two-year, $1 million

At 82 years old, Miss Gloria Murphy, a resident of Mercy Housing Southwest’s Casa de Merced Senior Community in Mesa, Ariz., walks 5 miles every day.

Mercy Housing recently came across this great overview of the 272 Stimulus Spending Programs put together by The Hive Group: http://www.hivegroup.com/stimulus/

More low-income seniors in Tacoma, Wash., will have a safe, affordable home, thanks to an $8.2 million grant to Intercommunity Mercy Housing from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).   The grant is part of more than $650 million that the department announced would go toward helping thousands of very low-income senior

Mercy Housing featured in February issues of Affordable Housing Finance and Multifamily Executive.