Future homeowner Melissa’s life as she knew it was completely upended on Sept. 29, 2022. That’s when Hurricane Ian plowed through Central Florida, causing unprecedented flooding and more than $200 million worth of damage in Orange County.
As a chef at an Orlando retirement home, Fatima envisions so many possibilities in her Habitat home’s kitchen. Park Square Homes will build her home in five days in February 2023.
Ebony has partnered with Habitat for Humanity Greater Orlando & Osceola County for the 2022 Home for the Holidays special build. A Maitland-based commercial construction firm, Williams Company, will generously donate the labor and materials to build her home in just two weeks.
Now that Jaquira has the safety and security of her new Habitat home with a predictable monthly mortgage payment, she looks forward to building her and her children’s futures.
When Darimar got preapproved to buy a home, her choices were either fixer-upper houses or overpriced condominiums. “No windows, no doors, and they were priced at like $200,000 — How?” she said.