Last month Habitat forHumanity of Southern Santa Barbara County held a series of community-wide meetings for interested homeowners of
the 12 low-income homes to be built on Canon Perdido. These meetings confirmed
what we already knew to be true -- there is a great need for affordable housing
in our community. We were blown away by the number of individuals and
families who attended these meetings. In total:
539 Families attended the meetings
382 Preliminary applications were received
305 Qualified families/individuals received a full application
This means that 305 families
who attended the meetings are within Habitat's low-income qualifications, have
lived and/or worked in Southern Santa Barbara County for the past year, and
currently live in substandard or over-crowded housing.
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| Family Selection orientation meeting at Grace Lutheran Church. |
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| Family Selection orientation meeting at the Westside Community Center. |
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| Volunteers helping interested applicants at St. Raphael's Church. |
Families who attended one of the meetings and received a full application, have until May 31st to complete the application and turn it into the Habitat office. At that time our Family Selection Committee and Board of Directors will choose the homeowners based on
the level of need, willingness to become partners in the program, and ability
to pay the zero-interest mortgage.
Habitat for Humanity follows
a nondiscrimination policy and neither race, color, religion, handicap,
familial status, nor national origin is a factor in choosing the families who
receive Habitat houses.
