When Liz Belcher, information client services manager for Housing Assistance, was asked to help with the organization’s efforts to assist the Venezuelan migrants, it brought back a lot of memories for her family. Her mother, Allison Alewine, performed a [...]
From Homelessness to Board Member and Community Advocate: Housing is the Foundation When you first walk into Cathy Gibson’s apartment in downtown Hyannis, a prominent sign that reads, “She believed she could, so she did,” greets visitors. It’s a fitting [...]
Last month, HAC’s Al DiMuzio (right) donated a recliner to Richard as a way to provide stability to his living situation. On the first day of the new year, 57-year-old Richard and his two teenage boys became homeless. “That’s when [...]
HAC founder and former CEO Rick Presbrey with office manager Lynne Perry at his retirement luncheon which took place at the end of January. In 1974, Rick Presbrey founded HAC, operating the fledgling nonprofit out of a cramped West Yarmouth [...]
Georgina outside the Hyannis cottage that is now home to her and her husband Jim. In the last month that HAC ran NOAH, Georgina and Jim represented one of the final success stories in the agency’s 32-year history of operating [...]
Holding a microphone in her right hand and a handwritten essay on a piece of paper in the other, Autumn Rivieccio’s words came out slowly and softly. “When I slept in my car one night with my mom and dad [...]
With the New Year comes a fresh start for HAC. Our Incoming CEO Alisa Galazzi has begun work, starting a period of orientation before officially becoming the CEO. With her arrival here in the office, there is lots of talk [...]
The list of Rev. John Rice’s ailments hardly make him a candidate to walk from one end of the Cape to the other. The 75-year-old South Yarmouth resident has a torn ligament in his right foot, an injury to his [...]
It has been a tough summer. With unbelievably bad publicity and futile efforts to resolve the bizarre issues we are left only with the ability to stay positive and keep working to carry out our mission. […]
HAC’s Deanna Bussiere chats with illustrator John Sullivan who created the logo for The Cape Cod Quahog Challenge. When it comes to food, perhaps no dish is as synonymous with Cape Cod as the stuffed quahog. […]
Do you have a rental property that is vacant, or will be in the near future? Did you know HAC provides a free rental listing service? […]
Bob Murray (left) hands out water during the Bob Murray Housing with Love Walk in 2012. Though the late Bob Murray was unable to participate in last year’s annual Housing with Love Walk he started 22 years ago, he fervently [...]
Michael Hesse and his wife Shannon and their two daughters, Riley (left) and Dakota, celebrate in front of their newly purchased home in Harwich. “I’ve always wanted to own a place, but I never thought it could happen.” [...]
Over the past 13 years David Augustinho has aimed to address the needs of the region’s private sector as the executive director of the Cape & Islands Workforce Investment Board. […]
The need for affordable rental apartments on Cape Cod was on full display earlier this fall during a lottery for 12 affordable apartments. […]
Housing counselors at Housing Assistance Corporation who are focused on helping people on Cape Cod and the Islands with foreclosure questions and issues know that the foreclosure crisis is not over. Properties that are being put into the process of foreclosure continue to be [...]
HAC’s own Ashley Granger, a program representative in the Leased Housing Department, has three new letters after her name: MSW. […]
Ken and Janice Lyman of Yarmouthport have long been supporters of Housing Assistance Corporation’s Project Prevention through their church, St. Pius X Parish in South Yarmouth, but the couple decided they could do more. […]
Staff from the agency Horizons for the Homeless Children refurbished the play space atCarriage House in June and a ribbon-cutting at the space on June 13 served asan opportunity for the children and adults to get a first look at [...]
