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Mercy Housing California Notre Dame resident, Roseann, has traveled around the world, even living in Israel for six years, where she taught at the Reidman College of Complementary Medicine (1996-2002). A California native, Roseann grew up in Venice Beach with her dad, mom, twin sister, and brother. “It was a family-oriented neighborhood,” she recently described.

              Nonprofit affordable housing organizations Community Housing Development Corporation (CHDC) and Mercy Housing California (MHC) co-led the redevelopment of a public housing site in partnership with the City of Richmond and Richmond Housing Authority, providing 150 fully renovated apartment homes in which seniors with low incomes can age with dignity. Contact: Rick Sprague, Regional

Last year, Sonia and Saeid, two Mercy Housing residents in Northern California, received some news that caught them both by surprise. After years of volunteering, both at a neighboring Mercy Housing community and through the American Red Cross, the couple learned that they would be two out of just four people nationwide awarded the prestigious

Thanks to the partnership of supporters, Mercy Housing California (MHC) was named Nonprofit Developer of the Year by the San Francisco Business Times, recognizing our community-focused development efforts in the Bay Area and around the state. MHC is the largest regional office of Mercy Housing, Inc., one of the nation’s most prolific and effective nonprofit

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

The Sisters of St. Joseph of Orange, a Mercy Housing Founding Community, have a rich history in the city of Orange, California that goes back more than 100 years. Members of the order have gathered, studied, prayed, and made their homes in a striking brick “Motherhouse” serving as the operational heart of their campus in

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

Generating New Funds for Affordable Housing and Homelessness Prevention Housing was very much on the ballot in 2022, with thousands of Californians voting on local measures representing different approaches to tackling the housing crisis. The policies that prevailed last November are now shaping the way cities plan, fund, build, lease, and preserve affordable housing. Mercy

In January, Governor Gavin Newsom released a draft budget for the 2023-2024 fiscal year, which would include modest investments in housing production and homelessness prevention but also makes cuts to existing funding sources. Now, the state legislature is working to revise and pass the budget by June 15, 2023.  From Mercy Housing California (MHC)’s perspective,

Contact: Rosalyn Sternberg, rosalyn.sternberg@mercyhousing.org ORANGE: On November 29, longtime partners Sisters of St. Joseph of Orange and Mercy Housing California (MHC) celebrated the upcoming start of construction at Villa St. Joseph, a new affordable housing community that will provide 50 homes for low-income seniors aged 62 and over, including 18 homes reserved for formerly homeless