Affordable housing in Greater Cleveland is getting harder to find. As an integral part of their communities, churches are aware of the need. Many with vacant land and buildings believed they could help by transforming them into housing. They just lacked the expertise and money to get things started.
Now, six East Side congregations are getting seed money to explore turning their properties into affordable housing.
Enterprise Community Partners, a national nonprofit focused on housing and community development, selected the congregations, which will each receive a $50,000 pre-development grant to help them create plans for mixed-income and other affordable housing. This is the first time the nonprofit’s 20-year-old Faith-Based Development Initiative has been in Cuyahoga County…