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 Kingston realtor warns that raising NHT loan limits doesn’t help first-time buyers if developers simply raise prices to match. Her sharper critique: the market itself has shifted toward investment property, not starter homes.

Toronto’s Danforth Baptist Church is being converted into an eight-storey building with 50 supportive homes for seniors, keeping its towers and facade, funded by federal and city programmes and a $4 million Sprott Foundation gift.

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.

Evangelical families in San Isidro Arenal, Oaxaca, lost homes, cacao and mango fields and a church building, and faced expulsion under a 1993 accord making Catholicism the only permitted religion.

In Boston, a closed Baptist church in Allston, a Catholic church in Jamaica Plain and a South Boston convent are being converted into 140 affordable homes for older adults, as seniors face waits of more than five years for subsidised housing.

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.

Central Community Church in Wichita has completed 48 low-income senior homes on its land, funded by state tax credits and a federal grant and managed by Mennonite Housing, a decade after the idea began.

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.

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.