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Mercy Housing California is proud to play an active role in addressing our state’s shortage of affordable housing. Check out the new communities we started and finished in 2023, bringing new, service-enriched homes to these great neighborhoods around the state: WHERE WE BROKE GROUND IN 2023 We started construction on six new affordable communities throughout

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Since it went into effect in 2018, California state bill SB-35 has been an effective tool to bring Californians the affordable homes we so desperately need more efficiently, by speeding up the approvals process for proposed developments that meet a certain set of conditions. Mercy Housing California (MHC) has made good use of this policy

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Press Release Mercy Housing Southeast Announces New Board Members For Immediate Release:  March 22, 2023 Contact: Beth Haynes |404 543-7849 | beth.haynes@mercyhousing.org ATLANTA –Mercy Housing Southeast (MHSE) is proud to announce its incoming board chair, Tia McCoy, and welcome three new members to its Board of Directors. Through these additions, MHSE continues to strengthen its

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Green Hope, Mercy Housing’s environmental sustainability department, and Decatur Place staff recently partnered with Sensor Industries, ProdigyLink, Energy Outreach Colorado, and Mile High Youth Corps to provide water and energy-saving upgrades and community solar subscriptions to Decatur Place residents in Denver. During the first week of November, Sensor Industries and ProdigyLink installed toilet leak sensors,

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Senior residents are getting healthy while grooving! McAuley Meadows in California recently introduced a class for line dancing, which is a healthy low impact form of exercise that has the added benefit of creating community among participants. The first class had nine participants and five residents from that group performed the dance at their winter

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We’re celebrating the grand opening of Thrive Sweet Auburn on April 26, so save the date! A collaboration between Project Community Connections Inc. (PCCI) and Mercy Housing Southeast, Thrive Sweet Auburn is a mixed-use development in Atlanta’s Old Fourth Ward created to provide operating space for PCCI, a vital nonprofit serving people exiting homelessness, paired

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Your support of Mercy Housing allows for more affordable homes to be built across the country. And in 2023, new affordable communities are on the way, thanks in part to our supporters that keep Mercy Housing a strong organization! 1280 apartments were completed in 2022, and we also broke ground on our first building project

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Dear Friends, 2022 was an exciting year for Mercy Housing as we celebrated our 40th anniversary. We broke ground on our first affordable housing communities in Oregon and South Carolina, increasing the number of states where we operate to 21. We also celebrated the launch of the Mercy Housing Endowment, thanks to the Congregation of

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Jim Alexander, a Mercy Housing resident in Georgia, is a documentary photographer, photojournalist, activist, and teacher– he is best known for being a “Participant Observer” for his photographs of human rights and black culture. He was the first artist selected in the annual “Master Artist” program conducted by the City of Atlanta Office of Cultural

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Phoenix Homecare partnered with Mercy Housing Mercy Village staff in Joplin, MO., to set up carriage rides for senior residents. For some, it was their first time meeting these beautiful animals up close. They also had the chance to feed the horses, which made the day even more fun! The rides were pretty smooth too!

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