Indy Habitat for Humanity acquires Hamilton County affiliate
The consolidated organization is now serving Hendricks, Hancock, Marion and Hamilton counties.
The consolidated organization is now serving Hendricks, Hancock, Marion and Hamilton counties.
The effects of Habitat home ownership include increased higher education attainment, better financial security and reduced stress.
A Habitat for Humanity group is planning to build possibly hundreds of homes on an 84-acre site in Bloomington.
Habitat for Humanity of Hamilton County is dedicated to working in partnership with low-income families in Hamilton County under the conviction that every person should have a simple, decent, affordable place to live in safety and dignity.
Habitat for Humanity affiliates are getting into the business of rehabbing homes, capitalizing on the availability of foreclosed homes.
Habitat for Humanity of Hamilton County is a non-profit, ecumenical Christian organization that is dedicated to working in partnership with families in Hamilton County under the conviction that every person should have a simple, decent, affordable place to live in safety and dignity.
Dean Illingworth will step down as executive director of Habitat for Humanity of Greater Indianapolis at the end of the year, the organization announced Monday morning. An architect and former partner at Schmidt & Associates, he has led the organization since 2005.
The house in the 1300 block of East Ninth Street is the first low-income home in the state to achieve platinum LEED certification.
So far this year, Habitat for Humanity of Greater Indianapolis has filed six foreclosure suits, more than in any of the past
five years. The organization also repossessed four houses as a result of the prior year’s foreclosures. In a typical year,
CEO Dean Illingworth said, Indy Habitat takes back one or two houses, so the recent uptick is troubling.