89th and 90th Habitat home dedications October 23rd and 29th

For immediate release – 89^th and 90^th Habitat home dedications

Simple, affordable single family housing is what Habitat does best and for the past 20 years, Iowa Heartland Habitat for Humanity has been doing just that in the northeast Iowa counties of Black Hawk, Bremer and Butler. The 89^th and 90^th Habitat homes will be dedicated on October 23^rd in Cedar Falls and on October 29^th in Parkersburg. 

The Cedar Falls home dedication for the Derhammer family will be Saturday, October 23^rd at 3 pm at 1937 Clay Street. Because of a partnership with the City of Cedar Falls, Iowa Heartland is able to build affordable homes in Cedar Falls  - this will be the 16^th Cedar Falls Habitat home built with families and volunteers since Habitat home building started in Cedar Falls in 2001.  A new, 3 bedroom, one story home now sits on what was once a junk-strewn lot with a dilapidated house. 

UNI students from the Habitat Chapter at UNI will be on hand to present a donation of $3500 to Iowa Heartland Habitat for Humanity. Students, local volunteers, the Derhammer friends and family have been working on the home since June 2010. Please join us in our celebration.  

Dreams come true on Friday, October 29^th at 5 pm for brother and sister, Karen and Dana Anderson when the dedication of their new Habitat home at 809 4^th Street in Parkersburg is held.  The 2008 tornado blew away the home that once sat on this lot and also injured both Karen and Dana in their rental home several blocks away.   Iowa Heartland HFH is excited to be helping Parkersburg rebuild and to be a partner with the Anderson Family in getting them back on solid ground with their new, accessible Habitat home.  Many local churches and individuals helped build this second Butler County Habitat home and a grant from the State Housing Trust Fund administered by INRHC helped fund the construction costs. Habitat friends throughout Butler County are invited to attend.

Iowa Heartland Habitat for Humanity was founded in 1990 as an affiliate of Habitat for Humanity International and is a nonprofit organization seeking to eliminate poverty housing, build stronger families and improve neighborhoods. 

Habitat invites people from all walks of life to work together in partnership to help build homes with families in need of better housing.  Locally, Iowa Heartland Habitat completes 10-12 homes annually.  Houses are built with volunteer labor, homeowner Sweat Equity hours and tax-deductible donations of money and materials.  The Habitat houses are then sold to Habitat families with affordable ZERO interest mortgages. These mortgage proceeds are then used by the Habitat affiliate to build more affordable homes with more qualified families.

On a global level since 1976, Habitat International has provided over 1.75 million people with safe, decent affordable shelter by building 350,000 homes in more than 90 countries.

In 2010, Habitat for Humanity became the 8th largest builder of private homes in the USA.

Contact 319 235 9946 or www.heartlandhfh.org for more information.