Three Vernon families now have a place to call home.
Habitat for Humanity has opened it’s new triplex on lower East Hill.
“If you were walking through the neighbourhood, you may have heard the excited cries of happy children and noticed adults unloading sofas and tables and bed rails and head boards, looking over their shoulders and smiling as they went in and out of the large, new building there,” said Glory Westwell, Habitat chairperson.
It has been over a year since the ground-breaking for the project.
The criteria for ownership: market price: gross family annual income, $35,000 to $55,000: no down payment with mortgage payments at zero per cent interest and amortized so that none of these families will pay more than 30 per cent of their income for housing
“The final criteria is each successful applicant family will eventually contribute 500 hours of sweat equity, either in their own unit or on some other Habitat project,” said Westwell.
“Building homes, building hope, the promise of that statement has certainly been met for three young families in Vernon.”
