These are stories of real participants who have built their homes through the U.S.D.A. Mutual Self-Help Housing program. Each story explains the individual steps needed to realize the dream of homeownerhip.
Where there is a will there is a way: A saying to live by for Salvador Moreno, a participant of the Mutual Self-Help Housing Program. For many, building a home is challenging enough. For Salvador, building his home during a global health pandemic while working full-time graveyard shifts was excruciating. Salvador…
“Un nuevo comienzo, a new beginning,” Evelyn Ramos responded when asked what her new home represented for her. “If you qualify, you should go through the program! It was a nice experience and a true blessing for us.” Previously living in Madera, the Ramos Family is eager to finally move…
Antonio and Erica Rodriguez could not believe it when a friend told them that Self-Help Enterprises was building in Planada. They were excited and knew this could be their chance at homeownership, at last. “When my wife saw the tractors moving at the Planada location, she called me excited. They…
Yolanda and Juan Baeza are a few months into the construction of their brand new home. “We’ve been building for about four months now and we’ve enjoyed the experience so far,” says Yolanda. The Baeza family belongs to Woodlake 22, a group of 11 families building their homes with our…
It may come as no surprise that student debt is one of the greatest financial burdens Americans face today. In California alone, residents owe approximately $131.2 billion in student loan debt. For Elizabeth Lopez (27), a dental assistant and mother of two young girls, the weight of this burden was…