Our History
1990 | Interfaith Housing is created by religious and lay leaders who are concerned about the lack of any private significant response to the region's growing number of shelter poor. |
1991 | Articles of Incorporation are filed with the State of Maryland |
1992 | Staff are hired and a small office opened with assistance from the Enterprise Foundation. In partnership with Western Maryland College, we receive our first major grant, from the Jesse Ball duPont Foundation. Work is begun on Community Estates in Hagerstown. |
1993 | We now have more than eight projects, representing more than 200 units of affordable housing for families and seniors, planned or under construction. The Board of Trustees develops a five-year business plan to guide our long-term vision. |
1994 | A ground breaking ceremony is held in June to celebrate the start of construction on Weinberg House, an elderly rental complex in downtown Frederick. We are recognized with the NationsBank Cornerstone Award and the Governor's Outstanding Interfaith / Ecumenical Effort Award. |
1995 | The HOPE III homeownership program is implemented in Allegany County, a ceremony is held to celebrate the grand opening of the Washington Ridge family rental complex in Frostburg, and work is begun on our first Self-help Housing project, in Brunswick. We receive the Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta's Community Support Award. |
1996 | We change our name from "Western Maryland Interfaith Housing Development Corporation" to "Interfaith Housing of Western Maryland." A ribbon cutting ceremony is held to celebrate the opening of Bell Court elderly rental complex. |
1997 | Our second Self-help Housing project, Freestate Heights in Taneytown, is begun. Weinberg House receives an honorable mention from the Fannie Mae Maxwell Awards for Excellence. We are recognized through the Social Compact Outstanding Community Investment Awards as an Honoree for Partnership Achievement. |
1998 | An off-site ribbon cutting ceremony is held to dedicate the Mulberry House domestic violence shelter in Washington County. The Bell Court elderly rental complex receives an honorable mention from the Fannie Mae Maxwell Awards for Excellence. Work is begun on Weinberg Knolls, an affordable homeownership community using modular housing. |
1999 | We are one of the first seven organizations to be certified through the Maryland Association of Nonprofit Organizations' Standards for Excellence program. In partnership with F & M National Bank, we receive both the Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta's Partnership Excellence Award and the FHLB's Community Partnership Award. A new shelter for families in crisis is opened in Cumberland. A historic building is purchased and renovated in Frederick to become our main office. Work begins on renovation of 20 apartments and 12 houses in Westminster. |
2000 | The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Endowment Fund is established. Our Self-help Housing program is recognized with the Maryland Affordable Housing Trust's Award for Excellence. Our strategic planning committee looks to the future as we complete more than 500 affordable housing units We deliver a 28 unit elderly apartment building in Hancock to our partner, the Washington County Housing Authority. |
2001 | The Homeless in Frederick do not have a permanent shelter. Interfaith Housing and The Religious Coalition for Emergency Human Needs have partnered to build a shelter hopefully by the Fall of 2002. Rehabilitation and Community Revitalization become a major part of our programs. Self Help Units pass the 100 mark. Affordable Housing was preserved with the purchase of 96 existing apartments in the City of Frederick. |
2002 | The first phase of Francis Murphy Apartments, a 120 unit elderly complex is opened. Community revitalization is taking place in various communities: Westminster, Cumberland and Taneytown by renovating substandard homes allowing people to live and work in their community. Our advocacy efforts result in the adoption of inclusionary zoning (MPDU) in Frederick County. Development of three major subdivisions for self help housing begins in Frederick, Carroll and Washington Counties. |
2003 | Interfaith Housing's Self-Help Home Ownership Program expands in Emmitsburg on land donated by the Ausherman Family. The new development, Flat Run at Silo Hill, represents the first partnership with the Frederick Chapter of Habitat for Humanity. Two of the seventeen lots were prepared for Habitat to purchase and develop for their program. The City of Frederick receives a grant award of nearly $16 million from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's HOPE VI Program for a affordable housing revitalization effort in the city.
Interfaith Housing will develop interim housing for relocated residents of the public housing units scheduled for demolition. Interfaith Housing and its partners are awarded $11 million in federal tax credits and other funding by the Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development to restore the historic Old Hampstead School in Carroll County, Maryland. The property will be donated to Interfaith Housing by the Town of Hampstead. The 88 apartments for the elderly will be the organization's largest senior living apartment facility. Interfaith Housing reaches the second tier of a three tier matching endowment fund through The Harry and Jeannette Weinberg Foundation, further strengthening the long-term financial stability of the organization. |
2004
| We changed our name from "Interfaith Housing of Western Maryland, Inc." to "Interfaith Housing Alliance, Inc."
Interfaith Housing received a charter to join the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation Network. Construction begins on our third self help housing subdivision in Taneytown, in Carroll County. Interfaith Housing begins developing sites for self help housing in Pennsylvania. We opened a new wing for our Francis Murphy Apartments near Hagerstown and began construction on 84 elderly apartments in Hampstead. We celebrated the opening of Market Manor Apartments, the first new construction to be completed as part of the Frederick HOPE VI program. Interfaith Housing along with its development partners completed and opened The Residences at Hampstead, creating 84 affordable elderly apartment units in Hampstead, MD. Interfaith Housing celebrated the completion of its second self-help housing subdivision in Taneytown, Carroll County. Interfaith Housing was given PANO's Standards of Excellence. Interfaith Housing celebrated the completion of its third self-help housing subdivision, Sarah's Choice, in Taneytown, MD in Carroll County.Interfaith Housing broke ground on it first self-help housing subdivision in Pennsylvania in Fayetteville, PA.
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 731 North Market Street Frederick, MD 21701 (301) 662-4225 FAX: (301) 662-6477 |
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