CONTACT INFORMATION

Contact Person: Stanley Keasling, Vice President
Address: 3120 Freeboard Drive, Suite 202
                  West Sacramento, CA 95691
Phone: (916) 414-4400
Fax: (916) 414-4490
Email: skeasling@mercyhousing.org
Website: www.mercyhousing.org
Counties Served:
Amador, Calaveras, Colusa, Contra Costa,
El Dorado, Napa, Nevada, Placer, Sacramento,
San Joaquin, Solano, Sutter, Yolo, Yuba
Congressional Representatives:
1st District: Mike Thompson (D)
2nd District: Wally Herger (R)
3rd District: Doug Ose (R)
4th District: John T. Doolittle (R)
5th District: Robert T. Matsui (D)
7th District: George Miller (D)
10th District: Ellen O. Tauscher (D)
11th District: Jerry McNerney (D)
18th District: Dennis Cardoza (D)
Senators:
Dianne Feinstein (D)
Barbara Boxer (D)
Incorporation Date: 1967

OVERVIEW OF CDC

Mercy Housing California (MHC) is a regional nonprofit housing corporation serving 14 counties in a 70-mile radius around Sacramento.  MHC’s mission is to improve living conditions for northern California’s low-income people by working in partnership with participants, other organizations, businesses and local governments to expand, improve and preserve the supply of affordable housing.

The organization has diversified from its original single purpose activity of building single-family self-help housing in rural areas, to become a multipurpose housing and community development corporation. While self-help housing still makes up a significant portion of its activity, MHC also sponsors housing rehabilitation programs, rental housing development, water and sewer development, and research and planning assistance for rural and urban communities. 

COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES

The organization is committed to building grassroots leadership and empowering participants in its self-help housing, multifamily housing, housing rehabilitation and community development programs.

MHC is the second largest producer of self-help housing in the United States.   Since 1967, it has assisted over 2,200 families in building their own homes.   MHC began its development of rental housing in 1984 with the purchase and rehabilitation of a 36-unit boarded-up apartment complex and the concurrent establishment of the Sacramento Mutual Housing Corporation to own and manage it.  MHC’s rental housing program has completed 24 developments, comprising 1,324 units.  The organization’s housing rehabilitation program has assisted over 500 families in 15 communities to eliminate substandard conditions and extend the useful life of their dwellings.

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