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Earlier this summer, the Nuns on the Bus visited Mercy Housing Lakefront’s Englewood property on their cross-country journey to Washington D.C. More than a dozen Catholic Nuns travelled across nine states to raise awareness and campaign for budget fairness across the nation. A large crowd welcomed the Nuns as the bus pulled up to the

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By the time Bridgette connected with Mercy Housing, she had fought through recovery from addiction and lived in homeless shelters. Her strength and tenacity led to a job and the ability to move her family into a home of their own. But soon, Bridgette was laid off from her job and her home went into foreclosure. “I

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U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Shaun Donovan today visited Chicago and toured the historic Pullman Wheelworks, a newly purchased 210-unit affordable housing building on Chicago’s south side. Mercy Housing Lakefront and National Housing Trust/Enterprise Preservation Corporation (NHT/E) hosted the tour to highlight the latest preservation strategies they are employing together to address

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Mercy Housing Lakefront will now be able to continue their work of creating and preserving affordable housing opportunities in areas outside of Chicago – particularly in Kane and Kankakee Counties—thanks to a $125,000 grant from Grand Victoria Foundation. “We are honored to receive this generous award from Grand Victoria Foundation” said Cindy Holler, Mercy Housing

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Mercy Housing Lakefront opened the Wentworth Commons Apartments in June 2005 and soon became home to 24 single adults and 27 families, including 85 children who were formerly homeless or at great risk of becoming homeless. The Wentworth became more than a home to the Voss Family. It enabled them to live in hope of a

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Today, Mercy Housing Lakefront announced that it has been selected to participate in the Housing Partnership Network’s (HPN) Innovations in Neighborhood Stabilization and Foreclosure Prevention Initiative, an effort to expand innovative solutions to neighborhood stabilization challenges in 10 metropolitan areas across the country. The initiative is part of a $2.75 million commitment by the Citi Foundation to bolster

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Mercy Housing Lakefront welcomed Kurt Rogers to the Board of Directors. Rogers is a passionate proponent for affordable housing and has been a resident at Mercy Housing Lakefront’s Carlton Apartments since 1997.

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Mercy Housing receives two grants worth $750,000 from Citi Foundation. The grants will be used to expand the development of affordable housing in Illinois, California and throughout the nation.

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As the recession deepens, homelessness and housing instability are rising throughout the region. This one-year grant from the Searle Funds at The Chicago Community Trust will help Mercy Housing Lakefront develop and implement an aggressive plan to build or preserve 5,000 affordable homes and apartments throughout the region. Learn more at http://pitch.pe/13130.

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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

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