Habitat for Humanity is getting ready to build another house in Clinton.
Executive Director Cheryl Jefferson says this is their third build in Clinton, and the second in which the municipality has donated the land. Jefferson explains they're currently accepting applications from hopeful home owners and volunteers. To qualify for a new home applicants must be in need of new housing either because their current housing is structurally unsound, they need more room or they don't make enough income to cover the cost of conventional rent.
She adds they must also be able to re-pay a mortgage, because while Habitat takes back a no-interest mortgage on the home, the new homeowner must be able to pay property taxes, home insurance fees and something towards the mortgage. Jefferson says people can get more information and applications on the Huron Habitat for Humanity web site or call her office at 519-612-1614.
Jefferson says they need volunteers with a wide range of skills from a photographer to take pictures of the various stages of the home construction, to people able to help with feeding the work crews, and then the crews themselves. Jefferson says for their first ten years in Huron County they built ten houses, but for the next ten years they're hoping to build twenty houses.
