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PRESS RELEASE For Immediate Release:  January 9, 2020 Contact:    Kate Peterson | 303.830.3443 | kpeterson@mercyhousing.org Mercy Community Capital is a leading Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI), and they’ve changed their name, but the mission remains—to work nationally with socially responsible affordable housing and community developers, providing innovative financing arrangements for creditworthy projects where conventional financing

Mercy Loan Fund has changed its name to  Mercy Community Capital (MCC) Why the Name Change? The name change reflects Mercy Community Capital’s (MCC) expanding business activities and the larger focus of providing catalytic capital where dollars make affordable housing deals possible. The name is being updated in concert with our new 2020-2024 Business Plan

SAN FRANCISCO – The Low Income Investment Fund (LIIF), National Affordable Housing Trust (NAHT), Calvert Impact Capital and Mercy Loan Fund (MLF) have partnered to provide capital for the second phase of the $100 million Fund to Preserve Affordable Communities (FPAC) aimed at protecting affordable housing for low-income families across the nation. The partnership will

Mercy Community Capital (MCC) (FKA Mercy Loan Fund) has reached an historic milestone: $3 billion leveraged in development costs on affordable housing properties financed. Historically over the past 34 years, every dollar lent by MCC helped to create or preserve $9 of affordable housing. Over the past several years, MCC has purposely increased its participation lending

Providing stable affordable homes to families in need is not easy, but it is a rewarding challenge! It takes teams of experts, a lot of collaboration, strong partnerships, and capital. Many people know that Mercy Housing provides affordable homes with services, but it’s not always common knowledge that we have our own loan fund—Mercy Loan

A Denver-based Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) preserves Grace Apartments, affordable homes for refugee families in need. DENVER, CO — As Colorado’s capital continues struggling to keep up with the need for affordable housing, Mercy Loan Fund (MLF) is working toward a solution—providing a $2MM loan to Mercy Housing Mountain Plains (MHMP) to preserve greatly-needed

DENVER—Mercy Housing, Inc. (MHI), one of the nation’s largest affordable housing nonprofits, is pleased to announce the hiring of Dee Walsh as the Executive Vice President, Chief Officer of Strategic Development.  This is a new executive position charged with overseeing the work of the Mercy Loan Fund and MHI’s four regional offices. Walsh’s experience of

by Jason Battista We couldn’t be more different. I am white; he is the son of Bangladeshi immigrants. I grew up in an upper-middle class household; he grew up in poverty. I attended the very best schools in the state; he attended schools on the verge of being closed for low performance. I was raised

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Kate Peterson National Director of Marketing and Communications 303-830-3443 kpeterson@mercyhousing.org Dallas, Texas—Mercy Loan Fund (MLF), a leading Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) today announced that it has provided a $7.0 million loan to Chesapeake Community Advisors (CCA) and Trinity Village Non Profit Housing Corp. (Trinity) for the acquisition of Forest Dale

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 25, 2017 Contact: Kate Peterson kpeterson@mercyhousing.org Denver, CO–Mercy Loan Fund (MLF), a subsidiary of Mercy Housing and a leading Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI), announced today that it has received a CDFI/CORE Financial Assistance (FA) program award of $776,500 from the United States Treasury’s CDFI Fund. Mercy Loan Fund will use