housing Archives

Community Tenant Association makes inroads for low income housing residents

Posted December 19th, 2017

Norman Fong grew up in a housing project. Coming from a low-income family he learned early in life what it was like to be evicted and not know where to go.

Washington nonprofit shows strength in empowering low-income housing residents

Posted June 27th, 2017

Low income residents and immigrant communities in the Washington, D.C. area are getting help from a local non-profit, supported in part by the Presbyterian Committee on the Self-Development of People. ONE DC is working to improve social and economic equity by organizing, training and educating housing residents in Shaw and the District.

Community Health Evangelism Helps Transform Communities

Posted July 19th, 2016

Community Health Evangelism helps transform communities A Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) global partner, the Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus, is using Community Health Evangelism (CHE) to help transform communities in two of its 17 synods.

Presbytery of the Cascades

Posted June 13th, 2016

Hunger Action Advocate finds challenges and rewards in Oregon and beyond For Don Shaw, there is no such thing as retirement. Although serving a congregation as a teaching elder, he has found work as a volunteer to be complex and different, but also rewarding and challenging.