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The Church of Christian Compassion in West Philadelphia opened Compassion Senior Living, a $20 million, 38-apartment building where one-bedroom rents range from $900 to $1,300 depending on income.

Jamaica’s gated communities have operated for years without the legal enforcement powers strata apartment buildings have had since 1969. A new bill would close that gap, with real penalties for non-payment.

Grace Evangelical Free Church sold its Outer Sunset site near Ocean Beach for about $3.5 million to a developer planning apartments, after an upzoning raised the height limit to 85 feet.

Germany closed 611 Catholic churches and an estimated 300 to 350 Protestant churches between 2000 and 2024, and former sanctuaries now serve as a bike shop, a boxing arena, apartments and a hotel.

A bankruptcy court approved the Catholic Diocese of Vermont’s $1 million sale of the former Loretto Home in Rutland to Cornerstone Housing Partners, a nonprofit planning affordable apartments.

Standing on a Jamaican cliff, with trade winds whistling through the palms and Caribbean light dancing on the water below,…

“To own a home in Jamaica is to inscribe your name upon the land, to claim not just shelter,…

Ontario Lutheran churches are partnering with the Christian charity Indwell to create affordable homes, including 41 apartments at St Peter’s in Kitchener with more than $14 million in public funding, and a Hamilton church sold at about half its value.

New Creation Albuquerque, a 90-member church, owns rental apartments and runs subsidised units, a supported house and a city-approved outdoor tent site, all funded by private donations in the city’s International District.

Buffalo’s 151-year-old former Church of the Ascension, nearly empty for eight years, was bought by a local engineer and his sister, who plan apartments and commercial space despite neighbours’ parking concerns.

Gospel artist Bishop Hezekiah Walker’s Love Fellowship Tabernacle broke ground on HezHouse Apartments in East New York, a 236-unit affordable and supportive housing development built with non-profit and private partners.

In Nebraska, where dozens of churches have closed, former churches are becoming homes, six-unit apartment buildings, offices and museums, with one buyer saying his building could not be built today for under $4 million.

A Black-led Virginia church that bought its Midlothian site more than a decade ago with a future sale in mind is working with D.R. Horton on 192 apartments and 40 townhomes, designed to fit county height limits.

An Idaho church built as three geodesic domes in 1977, listed at $3.9 million, could be demolished for 152 affordable apartments if planners approve a switch to higher-density zoning on the Caldwell site.

A preservation group bought a disused church in Asheville’s historic Black East End neighbourhood after developers raised fears of demolition, and plans to create three deeply affordable apartments inside the building.