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Community Matters Newsletter – Fall 2012 Mercy Housing Lakefront (MHL) was recently awarded a $250,000 grant from the Polk Bros. Foundation to support affordable rental housing preservation projects in Chicago. This renewed and increased grant will be awarded over the course of two years. Two of the primary projects that have been supported by this

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Community Matters Newsletter – Fall 2012 In April, U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Shaun Donovan 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 hosted the tour to highlight the latest preservation strategies

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Community Matters Newsletter – Fall 2012 Mercy Housing California (MHC) is pleased to welcome Timothy Murray, Brian G. Swift and Steven Wade to the MHC Board of Directors. “We are privileged to have these outstanding community leaders join the Mercy Housing California Board of Directors,” said Mary Dunbar, MHC Vice President of Resource Development. “Their

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Community Matters Newsletter – Fall 2012 Dignity Health (formerly Catholic Healthcare West), the nation’s fifth largest hospital system, has been a valued partner and supporter of Mercy Housing’s mission for 23 years and for 14 years one of nine national Strategic Health Care Partners (SHCP). While our core business is the development and management of

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Community Matters Newsletter – Fall 2012 Mercy Housing California gratefully acknowledges new major grants from these generous foundation and corporate partners, January – September 2012: Bank of America Charitable Foundation, $192,500 for development of affordable housing in Mercy Housing’s Los Angeles, Sacramento and San Francisco markets; California Community Foundation, $100,000 for two years to support

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Community Matters Newsletter – Fall 2012 Mercy Housing California commemorated the start of construction of Esparto Family Apartments at the Northeast corner of Yolo Avenue and Woodland Avenue on Tuesday, June 5th. Speakers at the event included Mercy Housing staff, Yolo County officials, financing partners and representatives from the California Department of Housing and Community

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Community Matters Newsletter – Fall 2012 Advocacy is an integral component of Mercy Housing’s mission. We work to be a catalyst that causes our nation’s leaders to find ways to close the gap between the supply and demand for affordable housing. As part of our advocacy efforts, Mercy Housing leadership has been hosting tours for

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Community Matters Newsletter – Fall 2012 In 2012, Mercy Portfolio Services debuted Developer Central, their latest tool to assist community developers in their efforts to rebuild neighborhoods across the country. Developer Central, a streamlined version of Community Central, is a robust information and process management software solution tailored to developers who acquire, rehabilitate and sell

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Community Matters Newsletter – Fall 2012 Equity Residential Foundation recently completed a pledge of $500,000 to further Mercy Housing’s mission as part of a five-year partnership started in 2008. Since the time the pledge was made, Mercy Housing has been able to successfully develop and manage quality service- enriched affordable housing serving tens of thousands

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Community Matters Newsletter – Fall 2012 James Hardie Building Products Inc, the world’s leading manufacturer of fiber cement building products, provided a $10,000 donation to support Mercy Housing’s mission. James Hardie has been a trusted materials vendor at many Mercy Housing properties. Steven Davis, Director of Construction at Mercy Housing has said that, “In 25

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