Paul Wycisk is Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of the National Urban League, whose goals include economic empowerment of African-Americans through home ownership. It is active in helping people learn about buying a home and obtaining financing.

Donald H. Layton is CEO of Freddie Mac, which was created by Congress in 1970 to work with mortgage lenders to help Americans get lower housing costs and better access to home financing.

Read a June 13, 2013, Slate.com article that shows the affordable housing crisis isn’t limited to just the United States.

Read a May 14, 2006, Recordnet.com story about affordable housing efforts being slowed in Stockton, Calif., by rising land prices.

Read a Nov. 22, 2006, Christian Science Monitor story about land trusts, which allow people to own a house while leasing the land beneath it.

Read a June 23, 2007, Washington Post story about faith communities’ renewed efforts to create affordable housing in Washington, D.C.

KnowledgePlex is an online resource center for affordable housing and community development.

What may houses of worship do to advance political causes or candidates? By Ira Rifkin Freelance Writer The Church at Pierce Creek was a non-denominational, conservative Protestant congregation outside Binghamton, N.Y., until the Internal Revenue Service revoked its tax-exempt status for sponsoring a 1992 newspaper ad attacking then-presidential candidate Bill Clinton’s stands on abortion and […]

Faith communities in the states bordering the Gulf of Mexico are heavily involved in relief efforts. BP donated $1 million to the Archdiocese of New Orleans for relief programs, as this May 28 Catholic News Service story recounts.