New Home Reveal for Homeless Family of 8! // SAY Detroit Working Homes / Work

Single mom Anna and her seven children found the SAY Detroit through a good Samaritan, Ted, who has become a mentor and friend. The home was initially purchased through United Community Housing Coalition of Detroit and completely refurbished from an unlivable state by SAY Detroit's Working Homes / Working Families program. WHWF brought in its partner Humble Design to furnish and decorate. A Time to Help volunteers worked side-by-side with a team for Michigan Recreational Construction to install a playscape, and also did some landscaping and built a fence.

The idea of Working Homes / Working Families is simple: Detroit has too many empty or abandoned houses. It also has too many families who lack adequate housing. By encouraging the donation of homes that would otherwise go unused, then utilizing the efforts of volunteers to refurbish those homes, needy working families can be given a decent, clean place to live.

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