IHA Needs Your Support – The 2016 Holiday Appeal

inte8821 • December 22, 2016

Your gift matters.

Our ability to deliver our programs and explore new opportunities are very dependent upon the support of our community partners and the people that contribute to IHA. Your donations are the foundation and pillars that allow us to carry on our work.

2016 has been a great year at IHA and 2017 will see us grow unlike any other year in our history. We are building three new rental communities, providing 184 apartments for working families, individuals and seniors. Two of the communities, 520 North Market and Sinclair Way, are located in downtown Frederick City. Washington Square Townhomes is revitalizing an underused section of downtown, Chambersburg, PA.

The demand for supportive services will increase 370% as we serve our newest clients in these three new communities. The number of units that IHA will provide property management services will triple as a result.

Programs and services are an integral part of our work. For the first time IHA will offer financial education to children and their families through a partnership with Frederick County Public Schools. All of our programs continue to expand as we touch a greater number of lives. It is through your support that IHA is able to change the lives of the people that reside in the community where we work and live.

You may mail a year end donation to IHA at 5301 Buckeystown Pike, Suite 320, Frederick,MD 21704. Or visit our website to use a credit card: Click Here!

IHA offices are closed until 1/3/17. Wishing you and yours peace and prosperity in the new year!

Many thanks to Frederick artist Ellen Byrne for the use of her vision of 520 North Market

Voices of Affordable Housing

By Jodie Ostoich • May 25, 2025
Voices of Affordable Housing: Affordable Housing

Gary Free resident at Residences at Railroad Square Apartments

March 3, 2025
Gary Free grew up in Brunswick, MD. The first time he saw the Residences at Railroad Square, he knew he would love to live in the apartments. Now all he can think to himself is, “I am living here!” Gary said the day he signed his lease he was so happy! He has a picture hanging in his apartment that says, “You’re Home.” Gary looks at it often and says to himself, “I am!” He finally feels at peace. Gary feels his home is nice! He also feels one of the ways of living at Residences of Railroad Square is that he now has everything he ever wanted, asked for and needed. The only thing he feels is a concern is that most of the time he gets lonely. His goal is to try to meet people. He says, “I’m a very friendly person.” Gary says his experience living at the Residences at Railroad Square has been rather good. If he has any concerns he can talk to the office staff. He feels it can’t get any better than this!

Lease-up of Residence of Railroad Square

By Crystal Thomas • March 3, 2025
With excitement and anticipation, I watched the groundbreaking on June 29, 2023, with my assistant Vickie and IHA’s Supportive Services coordinator, Sandi. By the middle of September 2023 concrete walls were being set up. We watched as the roof was completed; then the windows and doors were installed. We impatiently waited for the day we received permission to see the inside of the Residences of Railroad Square property. Finally, on September 25, 2024, we had the privilege to tour the inside of this beautiful property. On the weekend of September 27, 2024, the IHA property management team along with the CEO Jodie, held a two-day in-person application event. The owners of First Stop Brunswick generously donated their space at 2. E. Baltimore Street. That lease up kick off generated 56 applications. Over the next three months, ninety more applications were submitted. Each applicant came with their own story which stirred our hearts. No matter how different their stories may have been, they all had the same wish, a place to call home for Christmas! On November 5, 2024, the first resident signed their lease and on December 23, 2024, the last empty unit was filled! Not only were we able to fulfill these residents' Christmas wishes but it also filled our hearts with joy!
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