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More Communities, Smaller Footprint: National CORE’s Sustainable Growth in 2025
This Earth Day, National CORE is proud to celebrate another year of sustainability and caring for our planet through environmentally sensitive construction design.
In 2025, we reduced CO2 emissions by a whopping 393,326 lbs. – even as we opened five new communities. That’s the annual CO2 absorbed by 115,733 trees.
Wells Fargo awards $100,000 grant to Hope through Housing to assist at-risk children
Rancho Cucamonga, Calif. – The Hope through Housing Foundation has received a $100,000 grant from Wells Fargo to support educational and social programs for low-income and at-risk children. The money will help operate Hope through Housing’s signature After...
The Ahmanson Foundation awards $80,000 grant to Hope through Housing to serve Waterman Gardens neighborhood
San Bernardino, Calif. – The Hope through Housing Foundation has received an $80,000 grant from The Ahmanson Foundation to help support educational, economic and social services in the Waterman Gardens neighborhood. The money will help more than 6,000 individuals...
Ground Broken on Oakcrest Terrace Apartments; Community to Combine Affordability, Access to Employment Opportunities
Yorba Linda, Calif. – National CORE and the City of Yorba Linda today broke ground on Oakcrest Terrace, a 69-unit apartment community combining affordability, livability and sustainability. Oakcrest Terrace has been designed to meet the housing needs of four...
National CORE Breaks Ground on Affordable Housing for Formerly Homeless Population
Pasadena, Calif. – National CORE, one of the nation’s largest nonprofit developers of affordable housing, will break ground April 14 on the Mar Vista Apartments, 20 units of high-quality housing for homeless families. Mar Vista features 10 one-bedroom and 10...
Union Pacific Foundation awards $5,000 grant to Hope through Housing to provide healthy eating services to seniors
Cathedral City, Calif. – The Union Pacific Foundation has awarded a $5,000 grant to the Hope through Housing Foundation to provide healthy foods for extremely low-income seniors at the Cathedral Palms residential community. The money will help fund Hope through...
Study, summit take aim at threats to housing affordability in the Inland Empire and what that means for SoCal as a whole
Ontario, Calif. – Regulatory burdens, locally and statewide, endanger the Inland Empire’s ability to provide middle-class housing, creating economic tremors that can be felt throughout Southern California, according to a study to be released next month. The report, by...
Grand Opening of Downey View Apartments to be held December 1
Downey, Calif. – Grand Opening will be held Dec. 1 for the highly anticipated Downey View Apartments, a cornerstone for the redevelopment of the city’s downtown and a powerful example of affordable housing as an economic catalyst. Downey View features 50 two- and...
National CORE names Erik Johnson VP of Development; Will lead Waterman Gardens redevelopment
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. – National CORE has tabbed a leading anti-blight and neighborhood development executive to lead the highly anticipated Waterman Gardens revitalization. Erik Johnson, 42, former executive director of the Livable City Initiative in New Haven,...
National CORE celebrates Fall Festival at four Fontana properties
FONTANA, Calif. – Fall officially arrived in Fontana today. More or less … “We wanted to celebrate this spectacular time of year with the people we’re here to serve – our residents,” Daniel Lorraine, Senior Vice President of Property Management for National CORE, said...
Hope, National CORE receive JP Morgan grant for Family Opportunity Center
MONTCLAIR, Calif. – The Hope through Housing Foundation and National CORE (CORE) have been awarded $50,000 in grants and funding from JP Morgan Chase to further the organizations’ efforts in transforming lives and communities. For the second year in a row, Chase has...
Transforming lives through Hope’s Family Opportunity Centers
MONTCLAIR, Calif. – A professional home health nurse and single mother of two, Marisol Thompson never figured her struggles would reach this point – unemployed, no child support coming in, struggling to put food on the table. With the help of Hope through Housing’s...
More than 700 Prospective Residents Take Out Pre-Applications at The View in Downey
DOWNEY, Calif. – National CORE, one of the nation’s pre-eminent nonprofit developers of affordable and senior housing, reports extraordinary response to two days of pre-applications for its transformational multifamily housing complex in downtown Downey. Downey View...
National CORE announces funding for initial phase of Waterman Gardens redevelopment
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. – The redevelopment of the Waterman Garden’s housing project received a major push today with the award of nearly $12 Million in Tax Credits from the State of California. This award and the allocation of federal Housing and Urban Development...
Hope through Housing Foundation receives Bank of America grant to support Family Opportunity Centers in the Inland Empire
RANCHO CUCAMONGA, Calif. – The Bank of America Charitable Foundation has awarded a $5,000 grant to National CORE’s Hope through Housing Foundation to support Hope’s Family Opportunity Center (FOC) in Montclair, Calif. Bank of America selected Hope for one of its...
National CORE, Community HousingWorks to break ground Mission Cove, Oceanside
OCEANSIDE, Calif. – National CORE (CORE) and Community HousingWorks (CHW) will break ground Tuesday, August 12, on the highly anticipated Mission Cove affordable housing community for families, seniors, veterans and transitional age youth. The Mission Cove Affordable...
National CORE opens San Emi Special-Needs Development in Montclair
MONTCLAIR, Calif. – Two months ago, Shaneika Johnson was homeless, spending some nights in a shelter and others on the streets. She stopped by the office of an apartment complex under construction to see if she could somehow qualify to live there. It was a life...
National CORE prepares for Grand Opening of San Emi special-needs development in Montclair
MONTCLAIR, Calif. – National CORE, one of the nation’s largest nonprofit developers of affordable and special-needs housing, is preparing to unveil a state-of-the-art apartment community designed and built specifically for adults with developmental disabilities. Grand...
E. Neal Roberts School, Hope through Housing, First 5 Hold Community Mural Unveiling, Career Day
SAN BERNARDINO, May 20, 2014 – E. Neal Roberts, the Hope through Housing Foundation and First 5 San Bernardino celebrated the end of the school year with the unveiling of a community-based mural focused on hope as well as a career day with over 15 professional booths...
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