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by Adriana Cargill Governor Bruce Rauner’s proposed budget cuts for supportive housing and other homelessness prevention services will impact more than 12,500 of Illinois’s most vulnerable households, according to Chicago Coalition for the Homeless and Housing Action Illinois. Supportive services, like those offered by Mercy Housing in Chicago, provide safety nets like mental and substance

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact:  Sheela Jivan 415-355-7109 shejivan@mercyhousing.org San Francisco (5/18/2015)— Mercy Housing and the Providence Foundation are pleased to announce that one of their properties, Bayview Hill Gardens in San Francisco, Calif., has been named the recipient of the American Institute of Architect’s (AIA) prestigious Housing Award. The Housing Award recognizes the best in

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Omaha, Nebraska (5/13/2015)— Mercy Housing Midwest is proud to participate in this year’s Omaha Gives Day, a 24 hour charitable challenge organized by the Omaha Community Foundation. The online giving holiday will take place May 20 from midnight to midnight and is designed to raise as much money as possible for local

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 8, 2015 Contact: Mercy Housing: Barbara Schor bschor@mercyhousing.org 916.612.4245 (cell) 916.330.3356 (work) SAN FRANCISCO, CA – On Wednesday, May 6, nearly one hundred guests, including city and county elected officials and other project funders, celebrated the official opening of Mercy Housing California’s newest Bay Area property, 1180 Fourth Street in San

It is with mixed feelings that we announce that after having been a part of Mercy Housing and Mercy Loan Fund (MLF) for the past 14, including almost five years as President of MLF, Julie Gould left Mercy Loan Fund May 1st. She plans to pursue her next career in urban planning consulting and documentary

Please join Mercy Loan Fund in showing your support for CDFIs by signing this letter. The letter closes on April 30th, 2015.

When completed, the new Bill Sorro Community will include affordable housing for families, as well as for low-income families and adults with developmental disabilities SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Mercy Housing California (MHC) announces that construction has begun on a nine-story structure at 200 Sixth Street, at the corner of Howard Street. It is the site

At a recent Illinois House Appropriations Committee meeting, state Rep. Greg Harris said, “We cannot balance the budget on the backs of the most vulnerable.” Although I suspect Harris was speaking about issues of fairness and morality, his statement also points to an economic truth. Gov. Bruce Rauner’s budget not only is harmful to our

Read about how Mercy Loan Fund helped a neighborhood buy their own “mobile home park.”

The White Rock Village Knitting Team, composed of Mercy Housing residents, is looking for donations of flannel. They need $1,000 dollars worth to make 100 blankets for chemo patients and newborn babies. Seven yards makes about five blankets. Any donation of flannel will help. If you would like to donate flannel call Eddie Zapaca, Resident