City of Scottsdale and Habitat

This weekend we had a build sponsored by the city of Scottsdale and they asked us to set up a lunch for them which is not something that we usually do. But in the end it was pretty cool we contacted a boyscout group asking if anyone of them would like to make lunch for the group to work towards their community service badge. I'm not sure what department they were with but the guy that put it all together was very concerned with why Habitat does not build in Scottsdale. Well one we don't have land and seemed like he wanted to work with us on doing some rebuilds but maybe this is wrong of me to assume but I'm not sure how residents would react on have a community of affordable housing in there neighbor. The "Not in my Backyard" still every much affects affordable housing because not many people are educated on it and the real effects it has on a neighborhood.

I think educating residents on the benefits of having organizations like habitat build in there neighborhood. Some may think that we just give houses away to anyone that has not been able to lift themselves out of the poverty level. The families we give houses to have to have good credit and job history, meaning they have to of held a job for a period of time not jump from one to another. The families also have to put in more than 400 hours of sweat equity hours to know the true value of their home and meet the people that take time out of their lives to build them a house. The houses habitat builds raises housing coast in the neighborhoods they build because these are all brand new platinum lead houses, meaning we recycle and build with recycled materials. These house aren't exactlly what someone might think of as affordable houing.