Category Archives: Housing

 

Joahmaad – A Foundation Communities Learning Center Success Story

June 9, 2025 | Posted in Affordable Housing, Education, Volunteer, Uncategorized |

Click here to watch Joahmaad’s video Ten-year-old Joahmaad was an average student prior to the pandemic. When in-person classes resumed, he had fallen behind his classmates, especially in reading. When it was time to read aloud in class, the normally well-mannered student would become disruptive. His teacher felt he was doing it to avoid his […]

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Retiree Finds Better Housing and Purpose through Foundation Communities

May 14, 2025 | Posted in Healthy Initiatives, Affordable Housing, Housing, Get Involved, Volunteer, Uncategorized |

As a resident of Foundation Communities and one of the organization’s most active and dedicated volunteers, Marie Thorne was a natural choice to speak at our annual Volunteer Appreciation Party.  Speaking about her journey to Foundation Communities, Marie told the crowd, “Thank you all for seeing me, supporting me, and reminding me that even after […]

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5 Sustainability Efforts We’re Celebrating on Earth Day

April 22, 2025 | Posted in Green Building, Affordable Housing, Housing, Uncategorized |

What Is Sustainability? Sustainability is based on a simple principle: Everything that we need for our survival and well-being depends, either directly or indirectly, on our natural environment. Sustainability is the integration of environmental health, social equity and economic vitality to create thriving, healthy, diverse and resilient communities for this generation and generations to come. […]

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Family Finds Help with Soaring Food Costs from Healthy Food Pantry

March 17, 2025 | Posted in Healthy Initiatives, Affordable Housing, Housing, Financial Stability, Health | Keywords: , , ,

Every other Monday, Nikki Rivera takes a walk to the main building at Laurel Creek Apartments where her family has lived for two years. Her 8-year-old son Kaydyn walks alongside and her 1-year-old daughter Kayaura rides in a wagon that will soon be filled with food. They’re headed to the Healthy Food Pantry, one of […]

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Parker Lane Apartments Opens Officially with a Nod to Church Partnership and Legacy

February 26, 2025 | Posted in Housing, Affordable Housing |

Parker Lane Apartments began welcoming home residents in November of 2024, and on February 12, 2025, the Ribbon Cutting Ceremony took place in the community’s Learning Center. Many in attendance had played a role in helping make Parker Lane Apartments, a beautiful, newly-constructed apartment community, a reality. “I just want to say thank you for […]

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Donations Needed to Support Health Programs Many Rely On

February 25, 2025 | Posted in Affordable Housing, Healthy Initiatives, Health, Uncategorized |

Every other Monday, Nikki Rivera takes a walk to the main building at Laurel Creek Apartments where her family has lived for two years. Her 8-year-old son Kaydyn walks alongside and her 1-year-old daughter Kayaura rides in a wagon that will soon be filled with food. They’re headed to the Healthy Food Pantry, one of […]

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Spring Terrace 2-Miler Promotes Resident Fitness

December 4, 2024 | Posted in Health, Affordable Housing, Healthy Initiatives, Housing |

Ten times around the building. For someone with health and mobility issues, it can be a challenge. It can also spark a new life-saving commitment to fitness. That’s the goal of the Spring Terrace 2-Miler, an annual event organized by our Health Initiatives and Supportive Housing teams. The event took place on Halloween, and residents […]

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Resident Creativity Shines at the Bluebonnet Art and Wellness Show

October 7, 2024 | Posted in FC Creates, FC Creates: Arts, Affordable Housing, Healthy Initiatives, Housing, Health |

Everyone had a wonderful time at Bluebonnet Studios on September 12 at the Foundation Communities Art & Wellness Show. There’s a wealth of artistic talent in our supportive housing communities and many of these creative residents entered the show hoping to sell their works of art, or just to put them on display. Take a […]

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Event Celebrates Foundation Communities’ Progress in the Better Climate Challenge

October 7, 2024 | Posted in Affordable Housing, Green Building, Housing, Uncategorized |

As part of its commitment to using sustainable initiatives in its affordable housing, in 2022 Foundation Communities signed onto the US Department of Energy’s Better Climate Challenge. That came with a commitment to reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions at its growing portfolio of affordable housing communities in Austin and North Texas by 50 percent over […]

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Balcones Terrace Welcoming Home Residents in October

October 7, 2024 | Posted in Affordable Housing, Housing, Uncategorized |

Foundation Communities received certification to move residents into Balcones Terrace in September, and that process will begin this month.The permanent supportive housing community will be home for 123 single adults who are transitioning from homelessness or are living on extremely low and fixed incomes such as veterans and seniors. The development near MoPac and Capital […]

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