In keeping with its mission to create healthy and sustainable homes and communities, Community Housing Partners will be building an access ramp and making other upgrades to the home of a 79-year-old first-time homeowner in Blacksburg, Virginia, on Friday, June 8 as a part of National NeighborWorks Week.
National NeighborWorks Week is an annual week of service when members of the NeighborWorks network beautify parks and homes, clean up neighborhoods, and host educational events around the country.
This year’s project also coincides with National Homeownership Month, which is celebrated in June to recognize owning a home as an important step toward financial security.
CHP is teaming up with the Christiansburg Home Depot to make improvements to the home of BeaAnn Hypes, who became a first-time homeowner in December with help from CHP Homeownership, which seeks to provide a straightforward home buying experience and offers a full range of homeownership services under one roof.
Hypes received Community Development Block Grant down-payment assistance to purchase her home as part of CHP’s partnership with the Town of Blacksburg working to expand homeownership opportunities in the Bennett Hill/Progress Street neighborhood.
Mrs. Hypes’ home is the third in the neighborhood rehabilitated as part of the program.
At least a dozen volunteers from the two organizations will spend the day constructing an exterior access ramp, installing a French drain, filling and seeding the yard, and making other landscape and home improvements.
Partial funding for the project was provided by The Home Depot Foundation and NeighborWorks America.
Founded in 1975, Community Housing Partners is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization, governed by a board, that provides housing opportunities and related services to low-income individuals and families across the southeastern and Mid-Atlantic United States.
Through its mission to create homes and communities that are healthy, sustainable, and affordable, CHP has been a leading advocate of affordable housing development in Virginia for over 40 years. CHP’s activities include real estate development, construction, energy contracting and training, asset management, property management, realty and homeownership, and comprehensive resident services. CHP is an equal opportunity provider, employer, and lender. To learn more about CHP, please visit www.communityhousingpartners.org.
For nearly 40 years, NeighborWorks America, a national, nonpartisan nonprofit, has created opportunities for people to improve their lives and strengthen their communities by providing access to homeownership and safe, affordable rental housing. In the last five years, NeighborWorks organizations have generated more than $34 billion in reinvestment in these communities.
NeighborWorks America is the nation’s leading trainer of community development and affordable housing professionals. To learn more about NeighborWorks America, please visit www.neighborworks.org.
The Home Depot Foundation and Team Depot, our 400,000-strong army of associate volunteers, work to improve the homes and lives of U.S. veterans, train skilled tradespeople to fill the labor gap, and support communities impacted by natural disasters. To learn more, please visit, corporate.homedepot.com/community.
