{"id":6062,"date":"2022-09-01T17:55:37","date_gmt":"2022-09-01T17:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/?p=6062"},"modified":"2022-09-01T17:55:37","modified_gmt":"2022-09-01T17:55:37","slug":"habitat-for-humanity-starts-construction-in-junction-neighborhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/01\/habitat-for-humanity-starts-construction-in-junction-neighborhood\/","title":{"rendered":"Habitat for Humanity Starts Construction in Junction Neighborhood"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Adrienne Bradley of ProMedica, Alicia Smith of the Junction Coalition, Michael McIntyre of Habitat and Tiffanie McNair, City of Toledo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Sojourner\u2019s Truth Staff<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Habitat for Humanity and partners broke ground in the Junction neighborhood last Friday on two houses on Belmont Street \u2013 the first of 15 new homes planned for the Junction area.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Junction neighborhood knows us,\u201d said Michael McIntyre, executive director of the Maumee Valley Habitat for Humanity as he opened the groundbreaking ceremony. \u201cNow they are going to know us for new home construction.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to McIntyre, Alicia Smith, executive director of the Junction Coalition, invited his organization to extend their work in home renovation and building in the Junction area. Habitat joined with funding partners such as Owens Corning, ProMedica Junction, Greater Toledo Community Foundation, the City of Toledo, the Lucas County Land Bank and the Toledo Design Collective, among others, to put the money together for the new construction.<\/p>\n

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New homeowners, Tressa Boles and William Slaughter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In addition to the two new side-by-side homes on Belmont \u2013 built on what was originally three lots \u2013 13 more homes are planned for streets within a six-block Junction area bordered by Collingwood and City Park.<\/p>\n

Adrienne Bradley of ProMedica spoke of what the home building project will do for the residents of the Junction are \u2013 \u201ccreating financial security for folks,\u201d she noted. \u201cWe are thrilled to be able to support\u201d this project.<\/p>\n

The City of Toledo\u2019s Housing Commissioner Tiffanie McNair said: \u201cThe City of Toledo has made revitalization \u2026 of neighborhoods on the cusp a top priority.\u201d She commended the partnership that had been put together for the purpose of the home building project.<\/p>\n

The owners for the two new homes have already been determined. William Slaughter, who has been a member of Habitat for over a year, helping on other projects in the area, and Tressa Boles, who has been with the group for less than two weeks at the time of the groundbreaking, will become the newest residents of Belmont Street. They will both undergo a 16-month program designed to shore up finances, reduce debt, build credit and help them navigate the path of homeownership.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo be back home and in this area has been surreal,\u201d said Boles, a Toledo native who spent a time in Florida recently.<\/p>\n

Councilwoman Vanice Williams, in whose District 4 area the homes will be located, closed out the remarks before the groundbreaking itself, by pointing out that homeownership is important in building generational wealth and \u201cgenerational wealth is very important to the African American community \u2026 homeownership in the African American community is still alive.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Sojourner\u2019s Truth Staff Habitat for Humanity and partners broke ground in the Junction neighborhood last Friday on two houses on Belmont Street \u2013 the first of 15 new homes planned for the Junction area. \u201cThe Junction neighborhood knows us,\u201d said Michael McIntyre, executive director of the Maumee Valley Habitat for Humanity as he opened the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,18],"tags":[],"wf_post_folders":[137],"class_list":["post-6062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6062"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6066,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6062\/revisions\/6066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6062"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=6062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}