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GRACE in Action has achieved our goal of providing affordable housing for a family that is experiencing housing insecurity. And we’re just getting started! We give thanks to our donors who have enabled us to turn this dream into a reality, allowing us to acquire a beautiful house in such a way as to ensureContinue reading “Sweet Success! GRACE in Action Creates Affordable Housing”

GRACE in Action acquired its first affordable house on October 8, 2021.  We celebrate this milestone as the culmination of years of work, growing out of a vision of a small group of committed people of faith who believed that they could actually make a difference in addressing the problem of homelessness in the nation’sContinue reading “Walking the Challenging Road in Faith”

You may have missed this story amidst all the other news surrounding the pandemic and the political turmoil over the election results, but last year’s death toll among DC’s unhoused community increased by more than 50%, in large part due to the Covid crisis.  It’s not surprising, if you think about it. For those ofContinue reading “Housing as Health Care”

The coronavirus pandemic and our subsequent (partial) economic shutdown to try to contain it has exposed a number of deep structural injustices in our society.  Ongoing institutionalized racism has become more obvious as we witness the disproportionate deaths of people of color due to COVID-19. Structural food insecurity is evidenced in the breakdown of ourContinue reading “Yet Another Pandemic—Housing Insecurity”

This is the first post in a series of essays about the GRACE in Action strategy to provide more affordable housing for our unhoused neighbors in the southeast quadrant of DC. All too often, homelessness is understood as a moral or personal failure on the part of the person experiencing homelessness.  However, this understanding failsContinue reading “The Housing First Strategy”