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Unitarian Universalists’ Boston headquarters hosts temporary overflow shelter
By Kathryn Post — March 21, 2024
(RNS) — Amid an urgent need to shelter Massachusetts' growing migrant population, the UUA opened a vacant floor of its South Boston headquarters.
Houses of faith are building affordable housing on their properties
By Alejandra Molina — February 23, 2022
(RNS) — The national nonprofit Enterprise Community Partners on Wednesday (Feb. 23) announced $8.5 million in grants from the Wells Fargo Foundation to help houses of worship convert underutilized land into affordable homes and community facilities.
In Southern California, Black churches are using their land to build housing for homeless people
By Alejandra Molina — March 16, 2021
LOS ANGELES (RNS) — As Southern California’s housing crisis continues to fuel homelessness across the region, a number of churches, particularly Black congregations, are stepping up to build affordable housing on their church land.
Can Catholic bishops work with the Biden administration?
By Thomas Reese — January 29, 2021
(RNS) — Reports suggest that the US bishops are ready to wage war on the new administration, but there are many areas where the bishops' and Biden's agendas converge.
Sikh community fears worship site will be razed to make way for condos
By Alejandra Molina — November 15, 2019
ALHAMBRA, Calif. (RNS) — Sikh community says they didn't receive sufficient notice about the landowner's plans to build condos on their place of worship.
‘Yes in God’s Backyard’ to use church land for affordable housing
By Alejandra Molina — November 12, 2019
(RNS) — A number of churches in California are exploring ways to build affordable housing on their own land. It’s what people are referring to as YIGBY, or 'Yes in God’s Backyard.'
In Catholic-owned rooming house in Boston, older tenants face displacement
By Aysha Khan — April 5, 2019
BOSTON (RNS) — Tenants of Our Lady’s Guild House, a low-income housing property for single women, say its owners, an order of Catholic nuns, have evicted older residents to make way for younger tenants.
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