The MARK Project began working on affordable housing in 1989 with the opening of 10 Church Street in Arkville. That was followed by building affordable senior and family housing with Mountain Laurel Gardens and the Golden Seal Building in Roxbury. Today MARK continues to manage 10 Church Street and its eight apartments. It’s a labor of love that keeps us deeply involved in residents’ lives. We have done everything from buying gallons of milk to changing light bulbs and driving residents to the doctors.

“One resident told me 10 Church Street gives her her freedom,” Chelsea Slavin, MARK’s Program Administrator says, “and boy, does she like her freedom! Living here means she’s not in assisted living. We’re the resident’s safety net in many ways. Some don’t have family, and we at MARK become like their family.”