The U.S. is currently short an estimated 800,000 homes attainable for low-and-moderate-income homebuyers. This shortage is just one of many factors contributing to the housing crisis facing our country. In many states, Habitat for Humanity is the only affordable homebuilder at work, making our role more crucial than ever.
This Black History Month, we're honoring the incredible Black housing leaders whose achievements paved the way for greater access to affordable housing. These advocates, policymakers, and community organizers worked tirelessly to break down barriers to homeownership, fight discriminatory housing practices and create more equitable communities.
For more than two decades, Jacques and Dinah carried the dream of home -- a place of safety, stability, and belonging. But that dream was far from easy to reach. Their journey began in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
"It all started from a prayer request." -- Habitat Wake's first Board Chair, John Wilson.
John Wilson had recently met a woman in Raleigh who was living in a tenant home on the edge of a larger property. "The house had no running water, and the windows were plastic. It was cold, and she was just in a terrible situation," John said. It was 1984.
Remarks by Rev. Paul Atlas of Amanah Rush African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church at the dedication of the first two homes in the Flower’s Place neighborhood in Knightdale
Micah 6:8 8 - He hath showed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?