The Diocese of Truro sold glebe land in St Ewe, Cornwall, to a community housing company for four social-rent homes for local families, under a 2025 strategy to use glebe land for local housing.

The Pentecostal Gospel Showers Family of Churches sent 50 people more than eight hours to York District in Westmoreland after Hurricane Melissa, walking the last stretch where damaged dirt roads stopped vehicles, and delivered more than 500 relief packages.

Pastor Sheldon Evans of New York’s Evangelism Family Life Ministries is coordinating Hurricane Melissa relief for his native St Elizabeth, where he says many residents are struggling to find shelter after homes were destroyed.

An Arizona House committee advanced a bill letting religious institutions build affordable housing on their land despite local zoning, with at least 40 per cent of units for low-income families.

The former Poor Clare nuns’ monastery in Boston’s Jamaica Plain is to become 40 affordable senior rentals and 80 condos, with 42% of all units affordable, under plans heard by the neighbourhood housing committee.

Brazil’s 2024 floods in the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul damaged 16 Lutheran churches and flooded more than 2,200 Lutheran families’ homes, a week after the church had held disaster response training.

Christchurch Methodist Mission opened five social homes for homeless families on land given by a Methodist parish, following a church decision that parishes should make surplus land available for social housing.

The Jamaica Umbrella Groups of Churches condemned home invasions and fire-bombings in Gregory Park and Central Kingston as a “longstanding trend” of violence against families, calling for a credible crime plan and a stronger Peace Management Initiative.

A Christian boys’ home in Old Harbour licensed for 40 residents was housing 55, its manager said, detailing a $600,000 monthly food bill and plans for a second site in Spanish Town as a church youth group brought donations.

New Bethel Baptist Church built Foster House in Shaw to house families displaced by riots. Now DC is suing over mould and rodents, tenants call the church a slumlord, and the pastor says the city is trying to push the church out.