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Family Spotlight (8)

Owning with Habitat: opportunity of a lifetime

As she wipes away a tear, her husband Jacques reaches over to comfort her. "She does this every time," he says. "But it's true. It's all true." How...

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An Excerpt from Ianna's Homebuyer Journal

As part of their sweat equity requirements, a few families opt to journal about their Habitat homebuyer experience – from the submission of their...

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Neighbors Now and Then: Said and Dahir's Story

It was over a year ago when I first wrote about Said and his family's strong work ethic and desire to become homeowners. In the blog, I shared how...

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A Little 'Kindness' Goes a Long Way

Here at Habitat, our primary mission is to create and preserve affordable homeownership in the Twin Cities. Our passionate staff and volunteers...

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A Stable Home of Their Own for the Holidays

“We’re home!” 10-year-old Nadine and her 3-year-old sister Nama shout as they pull up to their Habitat home in Brooklyn Park. Their mother, Rosemary,...

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27 Family Members Support Habitat Mission on Build

If you visited a Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity (TCHFH) build site in North Minneapolis in September, you might have felt like everyone on the site...

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A big secret...and a wonderful Habitat surprise

DoShanley was keeping a big secret from her daughters.

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Vet Buys a Home with the Help of Habitat's Veterans Initiative

Andre Tellis wanted to give back to his community when he served six years in the United States Army. On June 25 of this year, our community gave...

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The long road to home: one family's Habitat story

Guest Blog by Stephani Atkins, Entrepreneurs House Steering Committee Member In 2014, approximately 600 people worked on building the Wayne Atkins’...

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[Infographic] 30 years of Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity

Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity started in 1985 when a handful of compassionate people working in a church basement raised money to buy and rehab a...

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