Kingston Parish in Mathews County, Virginia, is converting its vacant historic rectory into two rental homes for teachers and other moderate-income workers, at a cost of about $360,000 funded by grants and donations.

The City of St Petersburg and the Florida Housing Coalition have begun training faith leaders to use Florida’s new Yes in God’s Backyard law, which lets places of worship bypass some zoning red tape to build affordable homes on their land.

A Jamaican minister told a Miami hotel investment summit that outdated perceptions, not current conditions, are the real obstacle to more foreign hotel investment.

Manhattan’s St Mark’s Church-in-the-Bowery won approval to sell 27,000 square feet of air rights to a housing project, the first such approval for a faith group under New York’s new zoning, with proceeds reserved for maintenance.

A Jamaican minister told a Miami hotel investment summit that outdated perceptions, not current conditions, are the real obstacle to more foreign hotel investment.

A Jamaican minister told a Miami hotel investment summit that outdated perceptions, not current conditions, are the real obstacle to more foreign hotel investment.

A Maryland resort town that fined an Episcopal church $1,000 a day for sheltering homeless people in its hall has countersued, claiming the shelter has never been a permitted use under the zoning code.

Kingdom City Church has left its Charlotte campus after its landlord won a judgment for $75,600 in unpaid rent and a writ of possession; the church blamed maintenance problems it said were the landlord’s duty.

US churches are turning underused land into housing under new YIGBY laws in California, Florida and Virginia. Jamaican churches hold the same kind of land, just losing it to squatters instead of building on it.

Neighborhood Congregational Church in Laguna Beach won planning, parcel map and gap funding approvals in mid-2026 for 28 affordable apartments on its land, with rents limited for at least 55 years.