Category Archives: Uncategorized
May 14, 2025 | Posted in Affordable Housing, Healthy Initiatives, 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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April 22, 2025 | Posted in Affordable Housing, Green Building, 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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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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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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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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June 24, 2024 | Posted in Affordable Housing, Housing, Uncategorized |
Just steps away from the buzz and bustle of South Lamar Boulevard, is a city block called Lamar Square. The Mary Lee Foundation has been growing and operating a campus on that square since 1974 providing people with physical and intellectual disabilities rehabilitation services, and empowering them to live independently as part of a supportive, […]
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April 25, 2024 | Posted in FC Creates: Arts, FC Creates, Housing, Uncategorized |
Whether they’re enjoying coffee hour or playing a bingo card, residents of Zilker Studios say they feel a sense of calm and serenity from the flower-filled mural that graces a large wall in their community room. Calm is what the artists with Creative Action’s Chroma Collective had in mind last July, knowing that many Zilker […]
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March 1, 2024 | Posted in Uncategorized |
There was a time when Susan Taylor was content living alone, enjoying social interaction at work managing stores and day care centers. Then one day, her health began to fail and she was hospitalized. When Susan went home, her daughter felt she needed to be part of a supportive community. “My daughter wanted me to […]
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February 28, 2024 | Posted in Healthy Initiatives, Affordable Housing, Green Building, Housing, Education, Health, Uncategorized |
At Foundation Communities, we’re excited that construction crews with BEC Austin have us on track for a summer opening for Parker Lane Apartments. The interest list is already open for the 135-unit affordable community in Southeast Austin as we prepare for the time when we can begin welcoming home families. Parker Lane Apartments will have […]
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December 16, 2023 | Posted in Uncategorized |
Before treating the crowd at Prosper Center – South to a healthy dose of great music, Austin musician and HAAM member Kelsi Creek talked about struggling with chronic ailments and being without health insurance for four years. Kelsi now has health insurance through the Healthcare.gov Marketplace. Foundation Communities kicked off Open Enrollment on November 1. […]
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