$4000!!!

YES, so I forgot to look on the Bike and Build website before posting that last post and it looks like over the weekend I have reached by $4000 goal. A super thanks to Mary Jo and Bob Cadieux, the Klopfers, Tammy Clayton, and Tim and Anne Stone! Their help pushed me over the $4000 mark. If you haven't donated yet but were thinking about it, definitely do it! 100% of all your donation will be put to use to house families facing housing problems, no administrative costs or anything taken out.

So I looked back and it seems like I forgot to mention my Grandma Denman in my long lists of thank yous. So thank you very much Grandma for all your support, not just in the form of a check, but also backing me mentally as well. All your help is greatly appreciated, and I'm sorry I didn't put you in the first time.

Just a few stats, in 2001 98 million Americans (that's 41% of all Americans!!) are facing either cost burdens (paying more that 30% of their income on housing, the general line used by pretty much everyone in the government and NGOs), overcrowding, or a physical inadequacy of housing. 11 million of those are "worst-case needs". That means they recieve no government assistance, make less that 50% of the area medium income, pay more than 50% of their income on housing, and live in housing with severe physical inadequacies (no hot water, electricity, toilets, bathtubs or showers). Of those 11 million, 3.6 million are children, 1.4 million are elderly, and 1.3 million are disable adults. That is what your donation goes to. This are solutions to this, there is very little adequate affordable housing, and groups like Habitat for Humanity and Rebuilding Together allow some of those 98 million Americans the opportunity to help build their own house, and buy it using a no-interest mortgage on their terms, for a selling price that is exactly equal to the price it took the build it, no mark ups, no profit. This system works, we just need more help! You can help.