The Salvation Army’s Hanbury Home in Kendal, Manchester, caring for 47 children in partly century-old lumber buildings, planned a modern kitchen and multipurpose hall under new administrator Lt Adrian Edwards in 2019.

A Hanover woman said she would lock the church operating on her family land and take the property back after a deacon was arrested, showing how informal permission to worship on private land can end overnight.

Hurricane Maria destroyed or badly damaged 28 of the Seventh-day Adventist Church’s 34 congregations in Dominica, along with four schools. Six months later, with thousands of families displaced, recovery on the island was still a challenge.

Land belonging to Westmount Presbyterian Church in Edmonton has become 16 affordable, near net-zero townhomes for immigrant families, built with Right at Home Housing Society and Habitat Studio and housing more than 35 young children.

A year after Ecuador’s 2016 earthquake, the Episcopal Diocese of Ecuador Litoral had supported four damaged churches, helped rebuild 10 houses and set up a solidarity loan programme for families.

Food For The Poor gave new homes to Portland mother Jacqueline Thompson, whose family once lived in a garage, and to a visually impaired elderly man, with land from the Ministry of Housing and a pastor’s advocacy.

Food For The Poor’s 2016 5K Run/Walk raised J$53 million, matched by FFP in Florida, to build two-bedroom houses for 60 families, after the 2015 run paid for more than 50 homes.

Jamaican reggae star Shaggy was set to headline Food For The Poor’s 20th Building Hope Gala in Boca Raton, Florida, in 2015, raising pledges to build houses for families in Pon Batay, Haiti.