In The News

Tour the grounds, hear the stories, and meet the residents at Villa de Vida Poway in Southern California, Mercy Housing’s newest community for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

As we welcome in 2022 together and say goodbye to a year both heartbreaking and hopeful, I want to take a minute to thank you for all your support in 2021, and to show you how much you helped us to achieve.   Thanks to you, the year ahead holds so much promise. To help

With the wave of a ceremonial American flag, the City of Rancho Cordova celebrated the dedication of Mather Veterans Village on October 11, 2021. Built in three phases and completed this summer, Mather Veterans Village is one of Mercy Housing California’s (MHC’s) newest permanent supportive housing communities in the Sacramento area, providing more than 100

Pictured Above: These members of Mercy Housing California’s rent relief team stepped up to keep residents healthy and secure. From left to right: Alex Harden, Resident Services Coordinator – Santa Cruz; Rene Covarrubias, Santa Cruz Property Manager; Scott Thomas, Resident Services Coordinator – Santa Cruz; Vicenta Gaytan, Resident Services Coordinator – Brentwood; Jose Ibarra; Resident

I clearly remember standing in our office kitchen in 2008 and learning that the City of San Francisco had awarded Mercy Housing the privilege of leading the neighborhood transformation at Sunnydale. I took on the role of Real Estate Director for Sunnydale HOPE SF that same year because I saw it as the opportunity of

Opened in 2019, Casala was the first of Mercy Housing California’s new affordable residences at Sunnydale HOPE SF. While its sky blue façade and sunlit courtyard make it an attractive building, it’s the 55 families who call it home who make Casala a community. One of those families is Dorothy’s. A business consultant, community organizer,

Just south of Sacramento is Stockton, California, a city of around 309,000 people in the Central Valley on the San Joaquin River. The town never fully recovered from the Great Recession, and a history of disinvestment disproportionately affects Stockton’s Black, Latinx, and Filipino residents. The Crosstown Freeway is an unofficial boundary, a scar of redlining’s

Converting older, deteriorating motels into housing for the homeless can be a gamble with limited wins. However, with sound planning and strategic implementation, easing California’s long-term homelessness crisis using similar strategies is doable, especially now, in light of recently approved state funding to help tackle the issue. This April, Governor Gavin Newsom unveiled Project Roomkey,

Mercy Housing provides quality, evidence-based Out of School Time (OST) programming for hundreds of youth in California communities. The goal of OST is to supplement young residents’ educational and social-emotional learning to help them lay a strong foundation for academic and life success. While originally attended primarily by K-5th grade residents, these programs have expanded

Residents are always looking for innovative ways for their kids to do even better in school. Mercy Housing collaborated with Salesforce in San Francisco to offer program enrichment for youth to do just that because learning doesn’t end after the last school bell rings. For so many hardworking parents, it can be tricky to find