Habitat is very careful not to put a family in a home that's not ready for home ownership. There's a big difference between renting and owning a home, financially and in regards to responsibility. We would never want to set a family to fail by putting them in a position they're not ready for.

When Olivia and her family were selected, they didn't have the same time frame Habitat homeowners usually do to get her sweat equity done.

It's a godsend to her family - it's a stabilizing event that will forever change her children's standard. It stops the poverty cycle when families are able to become homeowners.

This is the pay day for the work and the organization all the effort - the struggles to get to this point. This is why we do it. It makes you feel like you have contributed to something magnificent, something outside yourself. That you've helped a family have an opportunity of a lifetime and how many times can you say that?

She's amazing. This mom has two jobs, comes from an area of an unsafe neighborhood and she's so thrilled to raise a family in this beautiful, safe neighborhood.

Our quilts typically go to really sick babies. Sometimes the moms don't go home with their babies. This (quilt) is all they have to remember their baby,