May 26th Habitat Home Dedications

Two more Habitat homes will be dedicated in Waterloo on Thursday May 26th.

The Habitat home at 924 Conger, a Neighborhood Stabilization Program rehab will be dedicated with the Floth Family at 4:00. The second Habitat home dedication will be at 4:45 with the Phillips Family at 419 Florence Street. This home is located off Independence Avenue and is in a Habitat neighborhood of homes built in the 1990’s. Both homes are examples of how Iowa Heartland Habitat for Humanity recycles and updates older homes in Waterloo. Everyone is invited to view Habitat homes and to be part of the celebration of “building homes with families and volunteers” and improving neighborhoods.
Fifteen families have moved into Iowa Heartland Habitat homes since July 2010.
For more information contact 319 235 9946 or visit our website www.heartlandhfh.org
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. IHHFH currently builds or rehabs homes in three Iowa counties – Black Hawk, Bremer and Butler.
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. We will celebrate 100 homes completed with families and volunteers on August 12th, 2011.
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 2 million people with safe, decent affordable shelter by building 400,000 homes in more than 3,000 communities around the world.
Habitat is 6th largest builder on U.S. magazine’s top 100 list
Habitat for Humanity International has been ranked as the sixth largest homebuilder in the United States, according to an annual survey by Builder magazine. This is the second consecutive year Habitat has ranked in the top 10. Habitat assisted 6,032 families with new or renovated homes in the U.S. in 2010. The larger number was partly due to Habitat’s Neighborhood Revitalization Initiative. Through the initiative, Habitat’s U.S. affiliates buy and rehabilitate foreclosed properties to turn them into affordable housing for low-income families.