A 40-unit supportive housing building for extremely low-income people was proposed on a St Cloud, Minnesota, Catholic church lot long used for parking and Christmas tree sales, subject to a planning hearing.

A 13-member Adventist team from Belize helped rebuild or repair 15 homes in Westmoreland, including Seaford Town, after Hurricane Melissa, building seven from the ground up with zinc, lumber and plywood.

Michigan churches are building homes, from Battle Creek’s grant-funded houses selling below cost to a $13 million Grand Rapids plan, while advocates call for state ‘Yes in God’s Backyard’ legislation.

A Releven symposium heard that 144 of Edmonton’s 476 faith buildings run at a deficit, while churches such as St Paul’s Lutheran and Westmount Presbyterian have already added homes, and researchers called faith groups Canada’s second-largest landholders.

A planning inspector approved five homes in place of St Anne’s Church in Hastings on appeal, overturning the council’s refusal and ruling the loss of the church regrettable but not against planning policy.

In every life, there are moments when the warmth of possibility brushes against the chill of uncertainty. Jamaica, with its sun-baked hills…

A Savannah Baptist church sold a vacant lot beside its historic building for $75,000 to a local group planning four affordable homes and the renovation of a shotgun house, keeping the church itself.

Dorset Council approved converting Weymouth’s Wyke Regis Methodist Church, unused since 2021, into six flats with no on-site parking, despite objections from neighbours, the civic society and the town council.

South Kent Christian Community Church in Folkestone, empty for six years and on the market for four and a half, could become two homes after its applicant found no demand for community use.

Aurora’s Mountain View United Church leased two vacant acres to Habitat for Humanity for 99 years for 10 duplexes selling at about $350,000 a home, after a rezoning fight that took until 2021.