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Partnership with Peach State Health Plan will kick off on April 30 in Lithonia ATLANTA (April 20, 2016) – Mercy Housing Southeast today announced its first Cultivating Healthy Communities event will be held at their largest multi-family community, the Hills at Fairington, in Lithonia, Georgia, on Saturday, April 30, 2016. The event will feature a fresh

Media Contact: KATE PETERSON                      KPeterson@mercyhousing.org Office  | 303.830.3443               Mobile  | 303.885.1210 ANNE BALLENTINE                   Anne.Ballentine@wfhc.org Office  | 414.465.3605                Mobile  | 414.331.5345 April 4, 2016, Denver, CO—Mercy Housing, Inc. announced today that it has begun the transfer of 3,666 affordable homes from Franciscan Ministries, Inc. The transfer of the

Mercy Loan Fund recently partnered with Mercy Housing California to preserve rare affordable homes for families at Casa San Juan, a community in Oxnard, Calif. Casa San Juan provides affordable housing to people like Elizabeth, who left an abusive relationship after 11 years and found it hard to find a home she could afford for herself and her four children. “When I heard that my application had been accepted, I was so very, very happy. It was one of my happiest days in many years…Without Casa San Juan, I don’t know where I would be. I might be dead. I might be homeless.”

As a social worker who has helped people with low incomes in the San Francisco area for more than 25 years, Sister Patsy Harney has a lot of stories to tell. Known for introducing computers into many low income communities in 1999, Sister Patsy is widely referred to as the “Cyber Nun.” As a Resident Services

Thank you to everyone who volunteered in 2015.  You truly enriched the lives of our residents.  Over the course of the year, 95 volunteers provided fun-filled holiday parties, backpacks filled with school supplies, holiday presents, and so much more. Volunteers helped hundreds of residents by: Providing back-to-school supplies for 156 children; Supplying holiday gifts for

At the end of 2015, Mercy Portfolio Services wound down its neighborhood stabilization work and discontinued operations. Thanks to the contributions of hundreds of partners and staff, Mercy Portfolio Services preserved, renovated or facilitated the reoccupation of 2,854 distressed or foreclosed homes over six years. The community impacts of this work included: Acquiring and renovating

Thank you for providing hope for families, Veterans and other vulnerable people. You and many other partners have contributed to building or preserving 5,825 homes and preventing homelessness for 11,392 people through the first six years of the Moving Forward Together Campaign.

Mercy Housing Northwest, one of the region’s largest not-for-profit affordable housing providers, hosted a celebration event at noon on Thursday to mark the start of construction of Mercy Othello Plaza. Bill Rumpf, Regional President, was the Master of Ceremony. Seattle Mayor Ed Murray, King County Executive Dow Constantine, Sound Transit CEO Peter Rogoff and community leaders joined Mercy Housing staff in the celebration.

“Partnerships such as ours with Community Housing Capital benefit communities that are struggling to find safe, affordable housing in such a tight housing market,” said Jason Battista, President of Mercy Loan Fund. “We’re excited to be part of such an ambitious community-building endeavor.”

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 2/5/2016 Contact: Amelia Laing Content Manager alaing@mercyhousing.org 303-830-3432 Moscow, Idaho— Mercy Loan Fund (MLF), a leading Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI), announced that it has partnered with its parent organization, Mercy Housing, Inc. (MHI), one of the nation’s largest developers of and managers of affordable housing, to preserve 55 affordable homes at Hawthorne