United States

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.

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.

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.

Atlanta megachurch New Birth broke ground on New Birth Village, about 390 homes on 33 of its 270 acres in Stonecrest, aimed at teachers, nurses and first-time buyers priced out of metro Atlanta’s housing market.

Seattle’s 2026 report on its religious-land housing law found eight religious organisations with 599 affordable units in eight projects, four of them finished and already providing 331 occupied, rent-restricted homes for local households.

Atlanta megachurch New Birth broke ground on New Birth Village, about 390 homes on 33 of its 270 acres in Stonecrest, aimed at teachers, nurses and first-time buyers priced out of metro Atlanta’s housing market.

Vermont’s Catholic Diocese of Burlington won bankruptcy court approval to sell its South Burlington headquarters for US$3.13 million as it works to resolve abuse claims from more than 100 survivors, moving staff to a college campus.

Vermont’s Catholic Diocese of Burlington won bankruptcy court approval to sell its South Burlington headquarters for US$3.13 million as it works to resolve abuse claims from more than 100 survivors, moving staff to a college campus.

Cuba is signalling openness to compensating Americans for property seized in 1959, but the offer is conditional on lifting the embargo, and excludes a large group of claimants entirely.

Kingdom Faith Fellowship Church in Milwaukee is working with Scott Crawford Inc. on 181 homes for residents aged 55 and over, with a fifth set aside as workforce housing and a church within walking distance.

A Nashville church held a community meeting before building anything, and the result was a senior housing development with solar power and a green roof, no debt, no state mandate required.

Summer Grove Baptist Church is selling Shreveport’s former South Park Mall, its home for 21 years, for $15 million after attendance fell sharply and the lease of a major commercial tenant came to an end.