Serving Families in Need
Tierra del Sol helps very low-income working families and seniors in rural New Mexico achieve or preserve affordable housing through counseling, sweat-equity construction, and rehab programs matched to USDA and other financing.
The Cabili Family (2017)
A divorced single mother in Florida built her own home through a USDA self-help program while working full-time and studying, later joining FHP to help other families achieve homeownership.
Toquerville
A blended family in Utah who feared past credit problems would block them from buying a home joined a Self-Help Homes build group in 2016 and began constructing a house through sweat equity.
Tosha
A renter in rural Indiana became a homeowner after working with Pathfinder to improve her finances, ultimately buying a house with a USDA loan and reducing her monthly payment from $725 rent to a $530 mortgage.
The Walker Family
An 81-year-old Arkansas homeowner received a USDA Section 504 grant through NWRHA to replace an unsafe shower and add accessibility ramps, allowing her and her husband to safely age in place.
West Broadway Villas
PathStone acquired and fully rehabilitated a neglected 42-unit USDA Section 515 property in rural New York, preserving affordable rentals and adding a community building after years of unsafe living conditions.
A New Start in Pleasant Ridge
A single father in Tennessee moved from an inefficient rental into a safe, affordable home in a mixed-income community after securing a USDA 502 loan through Fahe’s JustChoice Lending program.
Casa San Juan Bosco
FNPH helped Catholic Charities develop a $10 million farmworker housing community in rural Florida after Hurricane Charley, creating 53 resilient homes with deeply affordable rents and on-site supportive services, followed by a second phase of 32 more units.
Esperanza
ORFH replaced aging cargo-container housing in Mattawa, Washington by developing Esperanza, a 16-unit affordable farmworker housing project financed with USDA farm labor housing funds and state support.
Douglas and Marianne Hale
A Utah family of nine spent ten months contributing 1,766 sweat-equity hours to build an Energy Star home through the mutual self-help program, finally gaining enough space and ending years of renting.