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In 2008, Mercy Housing received $500,000 from the Citi Foundation to support efforts in Illinois and California, as well as national housing development opportunities and capacity building. Citi Foundation recently awarded Mercy Housing an additional $250,000 grant to continue supporting the creation of healthy communities through affordable housing in 2009. The grant will support Mercy Housing’s efforts in California and Illinois, including $100,000 that will go directly to Mercy Housing Lakefront’s efforts in Chicago and $100,000 that will go directly to Mercy Housing California’s efforts in Los Angeles and San Francisco.

All summer long, first-year graduate students at the Yale School of Architecture have been blogging about their progress building an affordable, accessible owner-renter residence in New Haven. This is the final installment of the Yale Building Project blog, with a look inside at the soon to be finished residency.

From the Carnegies to the Mellons and the Heinzes, the families that made Pittsburgh great in the 19th and 20th centuries invested millions after steel collapsed to try to bring the city back to its former glory, setting it apart from other Rust Belt cities recovering more slowly.

The residents of Little River Bend, a housing complex for the formerly homeless, gathered in a sunlit courtyard on a Wednesday afternoon to share stories of lives wrecked by alcohol, the trauma of war, failed relationships and bad decisions. As they spoke, each story had a common theme: the commitment to the slow, painful process of rebuilding.

Having become a prominent presence in the nation's capital over the last decade, the Pew Charitable Trusts has formally established a signature residency.

The Obama administration, in a major shift on housing policy, is abandoning George W. Bush’s vision of creating an “ownership society’’ and instead plans to pump $4.25 billion of economic stimulus money into creating tens of thousands of federally subsidized rental units in American cities.

The Birmingham Coalition of the Homeless and its supporters have invited political candidates, elected officials, police and community members to sit down with the homeless and take part in discussions.

The Obama administration has decided to extend emergency housing assistance for Hurricane Katrina victims who have applied for housing vouchers but have not made it completely through the application process.

The program is called HUD/VASH, which stands for Housing and Urban Development VA Supported Housing. The national program provided the Roseburg VA Medical Center with 35 housing vouchers for homeless veterans.

Exact numbers of homeless people around the nation are hard to determine, and Wyoming is no exception. However, sources report an increase in the numbers of homeless people served in shelters, clinics, soup kitchens and food pantries.