A model championed in Philadelphia is now part of a sweeping new federal housing law.
Habitat for Humanity Philadelphia has received an $85,000 grant from Lowe’s to help keep families safe, warm and dry this winter by funding 10 critical home repairs.
Representatives from 12 Pennsylvania Habitat affiliates gathered in Harrisburg to meet with local elected officials and show support for smart affordable housing policy.
The milestone comes at the halfway point of a three-year doubling in capacity for Habitat’s home repair program, scaling up resources and staff to provide 200 repairs per year by 2026.
Habitat for Humanity Philadelphia recently received two PHARE Awards totaling $400,000 that will support 35 home health and stabilization repair projects and necessary predevelopment work for the eventual construction of 13 new affordable homes.
Thirty additional families will work alongside Habitat Philly to make critical home repairs thanks to a $315,000 grant from the Pennsylvania Housing Affordability and Rehabilitation Enhancement (PHARE) Fund.
Habitat for Humanity Philadelphia has received a $4.1 million grant for its Home Repair Program, a sum that will ultimately enable the nonprofit to double the number of properties it fixes up each year.
Ten volunteers from chemical company, Arkema, came out to help build six homes with Habitat for Humanity Philadelphia at 16th and Page Streets for MLK Day of Service.
Habitat for Humanity Philadelphia is celebrating a major milestone. In the coming weeks, the nonprofit will finish up repairs on a two-story rowhome in Hunting Park — the organization’s 1,000th project since launching in 1985.
By Steven Falk, Philadelphia Inquirer
Leroy and Elsie Freeman sit on the steps of Habitat for Humanity Philadelphia’s brand-new guesthouse, which was conceived by Habitat as a safe place for families to stay, in this time of the coronavirus, while their homes are undergoing critical, large-scale repairs. The Freemans, the first couple ever to use the guesthouse, were confined there through the Thanksgiving holidays, so Habitat delivered everything they needed to create a festive meal away from home: food, fixin’s, and table decor.