Rocket-Courier
— BY DAVID KEELER —

Wyalusing Meadows is one of the more recent projects developed by the Philadelphia-based Mission First Housing Group, but it’s far from a debut for the company, which has a 25-year legacy of providing safe, affordable, and sustainable homes for people in need.

What began 25 years ago as a joint venture between the City of Philadelphia, HUD and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has become a full-service, non-profit affordable housing organization developing high-quality, green community assets across the Mid-Atlantic region. Mission First’s original purpose was to provide for the housing needs of adults living with chronic mental illness. In June 1989, Mission First acquired its first property— a South Philadelphia duplex. The first resident moved into an apartment in this duplex Oct. 1, 1989 and lived there for 22 years.

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