Affordable Housing Awareness Week!

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April 23 – 28, 2012

 

Affordable Housing Awareness Week is right around the corner and Richmond Metropolitan Habitat for Humanity is excited to be a partner this year!

The essential need for affordable housing in the Richmond Metropolitan area is an issue of growing importance, as it affects the health and economic well-being of communities and people across the region. To highlight this shared concern, 15 local non-profit housing organizations partner together to hold Affordable Housing Awareness Week every year for one week in April. The purpose of this week is not only to bring attention to the issues surrounding housing affordability, but also to encourage area professionals to get involved with the groups that support these causes.

This year we will have several volunteer opportunities during Affordable Housing Awareness Week:

  • Prep to Picnic – Volunteers will build picnic tables at our ReStore to sell.  All the proceeds from these picnic tables will go towards our mission of providing affordable housing to low-income families in the Greater Richmond area.
  • Put together the Cabinets at the ReStore – Volunteers will put together a large donation of cabinets received by the ReStore.
  • Clean up and Landscaping at the ReStore – Volunteers will help to landscape the exterior of the ReStore and cleanup the backyard.
  • Edgelawn Neighborhood Spring Clean Up: We will be having over 50 volunteers help with landscaping, painting, and general clean up at 16 houses throughout this Habitat for Humanity neighborhood.
If you are interested in participating in Affordable Housing Awareness Week this year, please visit here for more information.

Help Make Chevelle’s Dream of Homeownership A Reality – Make a Donation Before May 1st!

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Richmond Metropolitan Habitat for Humanity still needs your help to raise enough money to begin building our next home before May 1st!

Read Chevelle’s story below and make a donation to help get her family into their new, safe, affordable home as soon as possible.

 
Chevelle’s Story

Chevelle is a single mother of six children ranging in age from 4 to 18.  While Chevelle was growing up, her family lived in Section 8 housing and continually moved because of evictions, making her home life unstable and unsafe.

Currently she and her children are living in a small, three bedroom rental home with lots of safety hazards.  Each summer the bathroom smells of sewage and Chevelle is concerned the condition of the home could affect the health of her children. Chevelle wants nothing more than to provide her own children with the safety and stability she never had as a child.

Richmond Metropolitan Habitat for Humanity is helping her achieve that stability for her children.  Once her home is built,  Chevelle will move into a safe, affordable, brand new home where she will pay a 0% interest mortgage, saving her a lot of money.  She is currently gaining the tools she needs to thrive as a homeowner by attending eight mandatory homeownership and financial literacy courses and is diligently completing 350 hours of “sweat equity” volunteering at our ReStore and helping to build her own home.

Without generous donations from people like you, families like Chevelle’s would never be able to experience the joy of owning their own home.

 

A donation from you to Richmond Habitat of $25, $50, or $100 (or more) will help make Chevelle’s dream possible!  Won’t you help today?

Richmond Habitat Wins 2011 EarthCraft Virginia Habitat Affiliate of the Year Award!

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Richmond Metropolitan Habitat for Humanity was lucky to receive the 2011 EarthCraft Virginia Habitat Affiliate of the Year award last week.  We received the award for the Pillars at Oakmont, a multi-home neighborhood built in North Church Hill and completed in July of 2011.

The Pillars at Oakmont consists of six townhomes and a triplex, for a total of nine units.

The Pillars at Oakmont is a prime example of green, sustainable building practices.  Energy efficiency and environmental friendliness were taken into consideration in every step of building this neighborhood, from the planning stages all the way to completion.  By building our homes to EarthCraft and EnergyStar standards, we are providing healthier, more cost effective living spaces to our Partner Families and lessen the carbon footprint on our environment.

We are so excited to win this award and are so grateful for our wonderful partnership with EarthCraft Virginia!