About Interfaith Housing Alliance

James Upchurch and Bishop Murphy

In 1989, the late Catholic Bishop P. Francis Murphy and Lutheran Bishop Morris Zumbrun, in conjunction with the Enterprise Foundation, gathered faith and community leaders of Western Maryland in Williamsport to address the growing affordable housing demand in the region.  Their concern and action lead to the founding of Interfaith Housing of Western Maryland in 1990.  Today the organization, now named Interfaith Housing Alliance, Inc., has grown to be the largest not-for-profit affordable housing developer in the Western Maryland region and has expanded its mission to serve South Central Pennsylvania.  Nearly 1,000 families and senior citizens have benefited from the organization's affordable housing programs with nearly 300 housing units in-progress and planned for future development.