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DECEMBER 2009 HABITAT NEWS: Praise God! All three houses are nearing completion and it's time for all of our faithful volunteers to take a break. Thanks to all who have helped make these houses a reality for the families that will be living in them. The houses will most likely be dedicated in February following final inspections.
OCTOBER 2009 HABITAT NEWS: GREAT NEWS! We have not been on the site since the first week in June but now Habitat has received funding to purchase material for the three houses on East 162nd Street. We are scheduled to begin work on the houses on October 8 and excited to get back to doing God’s work.
Eight foreclosed houses have been donated to Habitat for rehabilitation. The houses will be stripped to the framing. Everything, including the siding, drywall, heating, plumbing and electrical will be scrapped. The houses will be a bare frame on the existing foundation and everything else will be new. It is estimated that a house can be rehabbed for less than half the cost of building a new house. One of the houses is currently being rehabbed but the plan to rehab two more houses in 2009 has been set back to 2010. All Habitat crews will be working on completing the new houses that were started in 2008 but put on hold due to the financial situation.
Our goal is to complete all three houses by Christmas.
We need your help to get this done.
Please e-mail Gus Mautz if you are interested in helping us provide safe, affordable housing for three families.
Click here if you would like to make a donation to Greater Cleveland Habitat for Humanity.
BPC'S HABITAT HOUSES FOR 2009
We are building the BPC house for the Yona Shepherd family. Yona has two girls, age 12 and 10 and a boy, age 7. Reggie Roberson is also part of the family. They are excited to get the house. The house is one of three on adjacent lots on East 162nd Street in the Collinwood neighborhood. Moen and the Cleveland Cavaliers are sponsoring the other houses on the site and will supply some volunteers. Our crew is leading the construction of the BPC and Cavs houses and working on the Moen house as complete our two houses.
The Cavs house is further along than the BPC house. We need kitchen countertops, lighting fixtures and carpet to complete it. The interior of the BPC house is painted and the kitchen and bathroom floor tile is completed. We still need a furnace and water heater, kitchen cabinets and countertops, interior doors, molding, toilets, bathroom vanities and carpet.
Our work on the exterior of both houses is done but Habitat must remove the excavation soil, grade the lots and pour the driveways and sidewalks on both houses. Removing the dirt and grading the lots will begin the last week in September. The driveways and sidewalks will be poured the first week in October.
The Greater Cleveland Habitat house design is two stories with 1,500 square feet of living area. It has four bedrooms, two full baths and a full basement. Door openings on the first floor are framed to be handicapped accessible. The house must pass the Energy Star test. It has extra insulation, a high efficiency furnace and a tankless water heater.
Directions to 707 East 162nd Street –
From the west – Take I-90 to the East 152nd Street Exit; turn right onto East 152nd; turn left onto Holmes Avenue (about 0.5 miles); turn left onto East 162nd
Alternate route from the west – Take the Shoreway to the East 152nd Street Exit.
From the south – Take I-71 or I-77 north to I-90 to the East 152nd Street Exit; turn right onto East 152nd; turn left onto Holmes Avenue (about 0.5 miles); turn left onto East 162nd
The Greater Cleveland Habitat for Humanity website has slideshows for all the Habitat houses. Click here to see a picture of the Shepherd family and construction progress on the site. Change the delay from 15 seconds to 5 seconds and the max size from 320 x 320 to 800 x 800 for better viewing.
Click here to see a slideshow of pictures of the 2007-08 houses on Gaylord, which were dedicated on June 28, 2008.
Contact Gus Mautz by e-mail or phone at (440) 871-0653 to find out how you can start volunteering with Habitat for Humanity. We need your help any Wednesday or Saturday. No experience is necessary.
MORE ABOUT BPC's HISTORY WITH HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
Since 1995 BPC has supported Greater Cleveland Habitat for Humanity, both financially and with construction volunteers. Including the current houses, our crew has worked on forty-six Habitat houses, from start to completion on nineteen. On the remaining twenty-seven houses we either started or completed houses that no other Habitat crew was working on.
This slideshow illustrates the day to day progress of a typical one week blitz framing week. Starting with only the foundation on Monday, the house is ready for the roofers on Friday.
Habitat for Humanity as an organization is deeply rooted in Christian faith. But while Habitat is openly and unashamedly Christian, it is not exclusive. Habitat believes that God's love extends to all people and builds for all people in need, to the extent of its ability and without regard to race or religion. Habitat also welcomes support from all people who desire to be of help, as a volunteer or financially, regardless of their faith commitment. The door is open to all who want to help end the shame and disgrace of poverty housing.
Greater Cleveland Habitat for Humanity (GCHFH) works with Partner Families and Sponsoring Organizations to build houses for those who could not otherwise afford them. Habitat houses are not free to the Partner Families. They must invest a minimum of 500 sweat equity hours . With a Sponsoring Organization, such as BPC, supplying the capital for the materials to build a house and volunteers supplying the labor, Partner Families are able to buy their house with no down payment and assume a twenty-year, zero percent interest mortgage with GCHFH for the actual cost of building the house. Habitat volunteers build the house including framing, siding, exterior trim, electrical, plumbing, heating, dry wall, insulation, painting, installation of kitchen cabinets and finish carpentry work. Some specialized work on the house is contracted out. Typical contracted out work includes excavating for foundations with heavy equipment, masonry work, cement finishing, roofing on the steep pitched roofs and carpeting.
E-mail Gus Mautz for more information or to volunteer to help the BPC Habitat for Humanity Crew.
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