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Mercy Housing would like to announce two exciting leadership transitions. After eight years as President of Mercy Housing Lakefront, Cindy Holler has been promoted to a new role as Senior Vice President of National Real Estate for Mercy Housing.  In this role, she will remain in Chicago but will help spur innovation and accelerate development

Thank you for providing hope for families, veterans, and other vulnerable people.  Thanks to you, Mercy Housing built or preserved 937 homes and prevented homelessness for 6,812 people in the Chicago and Milwaukee regions.  In 2013, your support helped make it possible to: Complete renovations to preserve 210 affordable family homes at the historic Pullman

The City of Chicago and Mercy Portfolio Services hosted a recent homebuyer fair at the Kroc Community Center in Chicago’s West Pullman neighborhood. The event was attended by more than 150 individuals from areas throughout the city including Back of the Yards, Cicero, Chatham, Humboldt Park, and several other neighborhoods. Attendees had the opportunity to

Thanks to you, and supporters like you, 2,280 children go to bed in safe and nurturing homes.  In the first three years of the Moving Forward Together campaign, you have helped build 2,534 homes, create 4,877 jobs, and enable 6,016 people, including 2,280 children, to live in hope. This is the fight of our lifetime.

After three months of planning, two prep days, and one exhausting day of building, 200 children have a safe and exciting new playground. The play space was built in less than eight hours with the help of 266 community volunteers from Dr Pepper Snapple Group, Mercy Housing Lakefront, Burger King and KaBOOM!. “Everyone deserves a

Throughout the last several weeks, Mercy Housing Lakefront children celebrated the start of the new school year. Back-to-School events were held at the Austin After-School Program, Wentworth Commons, Pullman Wheelworks Apartments, 850 Eastwood Apartments and Roseland Village. U.S. Bank helped kick off the back-to-school celebrations at Mercy’s Pullman Wheelworks property. The bank donated 180 backpacks

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

Mercy Housing Lakefront, Dr. Pepper Snapple Group and KaBOOM! build new playground in just one day for Chicago children

JPMorgan Chase Foundation recently awarded a $100,000 grant in support of Mercy Housing Lakefront’s (MHL) ten-year Moving Forward Together campaign. “We are thrilled to continue our partnership with JPMorgan Chase Foundation this year,” said Cindy Holler, President of Mercy Housing Lakefront. “Through these challenging economic times, we are grateful that JPMorgan Chase shares in our

On August 23rd, Mercy Housing Lakefront, Dr Pepper Snapple Group and KaBOOM! will work with community members, volunteers and residents to build a new playground at the Pullman Wheelworks Apartments. The completed playground will provide more than 200 children at the building with a new, safe place to play. In June, the youth at the