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Out of 140 nominations, we are thrilled to announce that two of our properties were selected by Affordable Housing Finance Readers as winners in this year’s Readers’ Choice Awards! Thanks to everyone who voted. Mercy Housing Lakefront’s Harold Washington Apartments was selected as the winner in the Preservation category and Mercy Housing Southeast’s Savannah Gardens

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

Thanks to a $500,000 loan and an extended line of credit from Mercy Loan Fund and the Bon Secours Health System, the Better Housing Coalition in Richmond, Virginia, will be able to expand its development of high-quality, affordable workforce housing in the Blackwell neighborhood more rapidly. With this new funding, more than 60 individuals and

Source: The Sacramento Bee Trying to find affordable rental housing in the Sacramento region is a bit like playing the lottery: Fifty thousand prospective tenants recently vied for one of 3,000 slots on a Sacramento County waiting list for subsidized housing. Families are waiting two years for an apartment in an affordable housing complex in

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

Two Mercy Housing properties – Harold Washington Apartments in Chicago and Savannah Gardens in Georgia – are finalists for Affordable Housing Finance magazine’s Eighth Annual Readers’ Choice Awards. Subscribers to the magazine can vote for either property online at www.housingfinance.com through August 15. Mercy Housing Lakefront’s Harold Washington Apartments preserves 69 units of affordable housing for formerly

Important conversations are taking place about the future of the affordable housing sector even in this election year, and Mercy Housing is joining in! Sr. Lillian recently testified in front of the Bipartisan Policy Council’s Housing Commission at a regional forum in St. Louis. She spoke on the following key points (Read her full testimony):

Thanks to a $1,159,055 loan from Mercy Loan Fund to ROC USA® Capital (ROC USA), 384 low-income residents at Champion Mobile Home Park in Elbridge, New York will continue to have quality, affordable housing.  Champion consists of 170 mobile homes owned by seniors and working families, the majority at or below 80 percent of the

Mercy Housing Northwest celebrated the Grand Re-Opening of Evergreen Vista Apartments with our development partners and other distinguished guests. Olympia Mayor Stephen Buxbaum welcomed the guests noting how critical affordable housing communities like Evergreen Vista are for the residents of Olympia. Originally developed in 1993 Evergreen Vista I was MHNW’s first project in Washington State

Kick Butts Day is a nationwide effort to educate youth on the dangers of smoking and to encourage existing smokers to quit. Evergreen Vista celebrated Kick Butts Day by inviting families to the Community Center for dinner and an evening of activities geared towards the prevention of youth smoking. There were hands-on demonstrations to show