2012
In its 10th year, The John F. Mealey Scholarship Fund has awarded nearly $400,000 to 382 students.
Construction begins on the first 85 units of CVHC’s master planned Fred Young Farm Labor Center. When completed, the community will feature 253 new units of affordable rental housing, single family homes and a community center.
The 62-unit Brisas de Paz Apartments is completed in Desert Hot Springs.
CVHC rings in its 30th Anniversary with a year-long tribute to Building Communities. Fulfilling Dreams.
2011
2010
Mutual-Self-Help Valencia, a 45-home subdivision, is completed.
Families build 72 Rancho Cielo Mutual-Self-Help homes on semi-finished lots purchased by CVHC in Coachella from a for-profit developer.
Thirteen Mutual-Self-Help families begin construction in Coachella on the 205-home Los Jardines subdivision being built on semi-improved lots CVHC purchases from a for-profit developer.
Low-income farmworkers and families move into Paseo de los Heroes II Mobile Home Park. The 53-unit community has a large playground, computer center and after-school program operated by Family YMCA of the Desert.
2009
Award-winning Wolff Waters Place Apartments are completed. The architecturally-outstanding La Quinta complex offers 218 units, a community room, tot lot, computer lab, full-size kitchen, swimming pool, childcare, after-school programs and parenting skills classes.
The 204-home Self-Help project known as Huerta de Mecca/ Los Fundadores is completed.
2007
CVHC celebrates its 25th Anniversary.
Upon the urging of the US Dept. of Agriculture and the County of Riverside, CVHC assumes responsibility for the 253-unit Fred Young Farm Labor Center.
2006
Arroyo de Paz, Phase 1, is CVHC's first multi-family development built in Desert Hot Springs. It features a childcare center and community room.
Ground is broken for Huerta de Mecca/Los Fundadores. CVHC’s largest Mutual Self Help subdivision. The 204-home Mecca community is being built from the ground up.
Completed Mutual-Self-Help homes reach the 1,000 mark.
Coyote Run II apartments, Palm Springs, are completed.
2005
2004
A milestone of 2,500 affordable housing units is reached.
2003
Giving priority acceptance to families displaced from dangerous and unpermitted trailer parks, Paseo de los Heroes 1 Mobile Home Park is completed in Mecca with its 106 spaces, Migrant Head Start program, bilingual computer center, spacious community center and recreation areas.
Mexicas Mutual Self-Help community of 67 single-family detached homes is completed in Mecca.
2002
CVHC celebrates its 20th Anniversary!
Chapultepec Apartments, Mecca, provides 31 units of quality living for farmworker families who enjoy a tot lot and large community room.
The John F. Mealey Scholarship Fund is founded in honor of the organization's longtime executive director. College-bound students who live in one of CVHC's multi-family housing or whose families have built Mutual Self Help homes are eligible.
CVHC expands its Los Mañanitas Migrant Farmworker Housing facility in Mecca to 128 beds with the completion of 40 beds in 5 new suite-style units.
2001
2000
1999
CVHC’s Annual Summer Youth Tennis Camp is launched to give children new experiences, teach teamwork and inter-personal skills. The camp is supported by Rabobank, Coachella Valley Unified School District ASES, Coachella Valley Chapter of the National Junior Tennis League and Indian Wells Tennis Garden.
CVHC surpasses the milestone of1,500 affordable housing units.
Housing needs of single migrant workers and rural homeless are met when Las Mañanitas is completed in Mecca. The 88 bed development features suite-style units that accomodate 8 adults in four bedrooms, with two bathrooms, a common living area and a kitchen.
1998
1997
1995
The 32-unit Nueva Vista Apartments open in Mecca with childcare, tot lots, outdoor areas and a medical clinic that operates for 10 years before a new County clinic is opened nearby.
1994
Tlaquepaque Apartments, 76 family units in Coachella is completed. The development is the recipient of the Fannie Mae Foundation's Maxwell Award of Excellence.
Coyote Run 1 apartments are completed in Palm Springs. The 140-unit community has a 4,000 sq. ft. childcare center with programs run by the Palm Springs Unified School District and by Family YMCA of the Desert.
1993
1992
Las Casas III, CVHC's first tax-credit development, is completed, featuring spacious family townhomes. The development includes a tot lot and community gardens.
Pie de la Cuesta Apartments, CVHC's first multi-family development in Mecca, is completed for 68 farmworker families.
1989
1988
1987
1986
More than 800 families apply to live at Pueblo Nuevo.
1982
CVHC obtains its first grant of $10,000 from Aetna Foundation.
John F. Mealey, CVHC's first employee and current executive director is hired.