CNA Staff, Sep 25, 2025 / 13:33 pm

A project to develop dozens of affordable housing units in the backyard of a Richmond, Virginia, parish is underscoring the ongoing need for more housing in the United States.

St. Elizabeth Catholic Church, located in the city’s Highland Park neighborhood, broke ground last week on an initiative to construct dozens of affordable housing units on a plot just behind the parish.

The church, known locally for decades as the parish attended by U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Virginia, is collaborating with the Catholic Diocese of Richmond, Commonwealth Catholic Charities, and the city of Richmond to develop the site, which will be known as “Greenway Village.”

Commonwealth Catholic Charities says on its website that the property will include “14 buildings with 56

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