Every cloud has a silver lining and the foreclosure crisis is no different. The down side of the foreclosure crisis is the hundreds of thousands of people who have lost their homes. The upside is the ability for the country’s leading real estate housing charity, Habitat for Humanity, to purchase properties below market value. Many Habitat for Humanity chapters across the US are snapping up dozens of empty lots and unoccupied homes — some for as little as half price.
“The down real estate market is a wonderful opportunity for all Habitats,” said Gage Yager, executive director of Trinity Habitat for Humanity in Fort Worth. “As prices drop, we have the opportunity to acquire at prices that just weren’t available a few years ago.”
Habitat offers affordable housing to low income families. The charity uses volunteers to rehab these newly acquired foreclosed properties or in extreme cases, tears them down and rebuilds.
Some criticize that Habitat is taking advantage of someone else’s misfortune, but renovating an already vacant property is far better than leaving it abandoned, resulting in higher crime rates and lower property values.
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raising enough money to purchase a new pit bar for their competitive gymnastics team, the Gym Stars.
Churches, organizations and individuals are invited to partner with North Collin County’s Habitat for Humanity by donating creative baskets for raffle. Proceeds will exclusively benefit the 
Each holiday season, we celebrate all of the blessings in our lives. We look down at our children and feel warm pride swell as we watch them decorate the Christmas tree and sip their warm apple cider. That warmth quickly fades when we have to scold them for peeling back the corners of their gifts to see what is inside.
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