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According to Up for Growth, the state of Washington will need an additional million homes by 2044 to meet the estimated population growth. Making the challenge more problematic, over the last 30 years, Washington’s population has grown by 60%, but its housing stock has only grown by 33%. This is a major contributor to the

Port of Bellingham and City of Bellingham officials gathered with leaders from Mercy Housing Northwest, Whatcom Community Foundation and their design and construction team last Friday, April 14 to celebrate the Phase 1 groundbreaking of Whatcom County’s first Community Benefit project. The Millworks is a two-phase, mixed-use development that includes permanently affordable apartments and childcare

Did you know that only 57% of U.S. adults are financially literate (according to a recent survey conducted by Standards & Poor’s)? It is easy to become overwhelmed when talking about finances in general. From banking to saving to managing debt and building credit, conversations around money cover a lot of topics. Financial Literacy is

Contact:    Beth Haynes |404 543-7849 | beth.haynes@mercyhousing.org  Affordable, multi-use community center to serve as a one-stop shop for homeless services ATLANTA — Mercy Housing Southeast, a regional office of national affordable housing provider Mercy Housing, and Project Community Connections, Inc. (PCCI), a nonprofit working to end homelessness in Atlanta, celebrate the grand opening of Thrive

Green Hope’s Beginnings   Mercy Housing’s Green Hope environmental sustainability program celebrates its 10-year anniversary in 2023. The program’s origins date back to 2012 when Mercy Housing responded to a call to action and established the Environmental Sustainability Advisory Committee. In early 2013, the committee hired a temporary Sustainability Manager who was later made a

Mercy Housing Mountain Plains has been selected to participate in Enterprise Community Partners’ Preservation Next Academy Cohort in Colorado. The Cohort includes developers, housing providers, and community land trusts working to preserve long-term affordability in small- and medium-size multifamily properties in Colorado. MHMP is excited to be one of only eight organizations selected to participate

This is an exciting time for Mercy Housing Mountain Plains! From grand openings to groundbreakings to major renovations, we are growing our footprint across the region. This year we are thrilled to be opening two new affordable housing communities in Colorado – The Rose on Colfax in Denver and Northfield Commons in Fort Collins. In

There is no typical day for Mercy Housing’s Real Estate Development team. Todd Wolcott, Associate Director of Real Estate at Mercy Housing Lakefront explains, “One day you might find us in the office and the next day we are walking around talking to city leaders about an upcoming development. We definitely aren’t sitting in front

On April 11, 1968, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1968, which was intended to expand the protections first established in the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The ’68 Act prohibited discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing based on race, religion, national origin, gender, and, with a later

Mercy Housing is excited to announce that Connie Rule has been named Chief of Strategic Partnerships. Connie will be responsible for developing and executing a highly strategic, innovative, and collaborative plan to identify and engage individuals, foundations, corporations, and other mission-aligned organizations in support of Mercy Housing’s mission to create vibrant, healthy communities by developing