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Community Matters Newsletter – Fall 2012 Thanks to a $1,159,055 loan from Mercy Loan Fund (MLF) 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

Community Matters Newsletter – Fall 2012 My fellow visionaries, Today, one in six Americans is affected by poverty. Sadly, it has become an epidemic, spreading beyond cities and suburbs and into rural communities that once boasted thriving farms and manufacturing businesses. It is also extending from one generation to the next. Yet, today, we know

Community Matters Newsletter – Fall 2012 In order to prepare students for the 2012-2013 school year, U.S. Bank partnered with Mercy Housing to provide backpacks and schools supplies to approximately 500 children at four Mercy Housing properties: Grace Apartments in Denver, Appian Way in Kent WA, Pullman Wheelworks in Chicago and New Hope in Nampa,

Community Matters Newsletter – Fall 2012 Children deserve a chance to succeed in school and in life. At Mercy Housing, we know this begins with their families being able to afford a decent place to call home. The Center for Housing Policy recently updated its 2007 report, “The Positive Impacts of Affordable Housing on Education,”

Community Matters Newsletter – Fall 2012 Mercy Housing Southeast is the Winner of the Affordable Housing Finance Readers’ Choice Award in the Best Master-Planned/Mix-Use category! Originally built in 1943 to house employees of the Southeastern Shipbuilding Corp., the Strathmore Estates complex in the Savannah Gardens community of Savannah, Ga., was meant to be dismantled after

Community Matters Newsletter – Fall 2012 Summer was certainly a busy time for Mercy Housing Southeast, seeing three, new affordable senior communities celebrating grand openings in July and August. Mercy Housing welcomed home new residents to Etowah Terrace in Rome, Georgia; Antioch Villas and Gardens in Stone Mountain, Georgia; and the Arbors at Ellington in

Community Matters Newsletter – Fall 2012 The residents of Mercy Place Belmont in North Carolina have made some unlikely friends. Each month, a gaggle of giggly 8-year olds from a local boy’s bible study group visit the property and the seniors who call Mercy Place, home, for fun-filled activities and lots of laughs. “In February,

Julie Walker, or “Miss Julie,” as she is known to her friends and neighbors, is a strong believer in the power of education and affordable housing. The 37-year old mother of two has earned an Associate’s Degree in Early Childhood Education and a Bachelor’s of Arts and Science in Social Work and is currently finishing

Community Matters Newsletter – Fall 2012 Mercy Housing Northwest is excited to introduce their very first property in Idaho’s capitol. 12th and River Senior Apartments celebrated its grand opening in Boise on August 30, welcoming home more than 50 Idaho senior citizens. The first new development dedicated to this vulnerable population to open in the

Community Matters Newsletter – Fall 2012 When organizations work together, the lives of people in our communities are changed forever. And, when lives change, we all have the ability to thrive. United Way affiliates in Washington State have long been investing in proven programs that help residents participate and flourish in their neighborhoods and communities.