by Gregory Bradbard President, Hope through Housing Foundation Think for a moment about the last time that you didn’t need a place to sleep at night. Other than choosing to sleep in a tent while camping, most of us have a difficult time remembering a time when we...
DOWNEY, Calif. – Valerie Aguilar is an honor student, a member of her high school scholarship club, Bible club and marine biology club, and will attend the University of California-Santa Barbara next fall in her quest to become an environmental engineer. Sounds like...
EAST LOS ANGELES, Calif. – Karina Orozco stops in mid-sentence, emotions taking her to a place she’d been trying to avoid. “It’s hard, but I would do anything for my children,” she says through her tears. “As parents, we don’t take days off. We don’t get sick. We do...
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. – Living homeless in “the field,” raising her young daughter by whatever means she could, Lisa Ponder often wondered if she would ever again have a roof over her head. Life in a tent – surrounded by others who, like you, had lost just about...
RANCHO CUCAMONGA, Calif. – National Community Renaissance (National CORE), one of the nation’s largest nonprofit community builders, was awarded more than $2 million in grants from the Federal Home Loan Bank’s Affordable Housing Program (AHP). The money will be used...
YORBA LINDA, Calif. – National Community Renaissance (National CORE), one of the nation’s largest nonprofit community builders, will receive more than $15.8 million in federal tax-credit financing which will yield more than $17 million in equity financing to help...