Fresno’s Westside Church of God is working with a local development group to build 21 senior cottages on an acre of church land, with rents expected at $500 to $750 a month.

A father-and-son team of pastors at Mount Hermon AME Church has opened 104 affordable rental homes for seniors in Fort Lauderdale’s historically Black Dorsey-Riverbend neighbourhood, with rents from $433 a month.

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.

West Oakland’s Friendship Christian Church and a nonprofit developer broke ground on 50 affordable homes for low-income seniors, funded by state tax credits, the city, the housing authority and banks.

Mt Hope A.M.E. Zion Church in White Plains made its underused land available for Mt Hope Plaza, a $40 million, 56-unit senior housing development that began construction in 2024, with 20 homes for formerly homeless seniors.

St Ambrose Episcopal Church in Claremont, California, planned to lease its parking lot to National CORE for 59 affordable homes for seniors, including supportive housing for older people who are homeless or at risk.

Bethel AME, a 136-year-old Black church in San Diego, began building Bethel One in 2024: 25 homes for low-income seniors and veterans on its own lot, funded by donations and loans at about $260,000 per unit.

The Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles aimed to develop affordable housing on a quarter of its 133 church campuses, building on projects such as senior apartments in Placentia and Buena Park and supportive housing in Riverside.

Catholic Charities Housing began building 63 affordable senior apartments on an empty car park at Denver’s Church of All Saints, with funding from banks, the city, the state and the archdiocese.

With fewer than 50,000 nuns left in the US, down from 181,000 in 1966, convents from Chicago to Los Angeles are being sold and converted into condos, senior housing, a library and a pop star’s home.