From Habitat Homeowner to Business Owner
“It’s been a journey,” Annika Ford-Massey said as she reflected upon her life before she became a Habitat homeowner. She welcomed some of the Dayton Habitat staff into the salon that she owns to talk about where she has been, how she turned her life around, and how Habitat played such a large role in that process.
Just seven short years ago, in 2002, Annika, a single mother, was working in a friend’s salon on Salem Avenue. She and her son, Austin, now 14 years old, were living in a duplex with a wet, moldy basement...
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Bike and Build's Journey in Dayton
A group of 35 college students and new grads left Providence, Rhode Island, on their bicycles early in June. Nearly a month later, they peddled into Dayton, tossed their sleeping bags on the floor of a Sinclair Community College gymnasium and got some sleep.
The next day they hung drywall and performed...
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