(30 Sep 2024)
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St. Paul, Minnesota – 30 September 2024
1. Various volunteers working at build site
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Chris Coleman, Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity CEO:
“We have a huge housing crisis in the Twin Cities. We have a particular issue around equity and home ownership. And so as we build more houses and provide more opportunity, some pathways for families that wouldn’t otherwise be able to get into homeownership to get there, it changes the nature of our situation and it creates a more equitable Twin Cities.”
3. Overview of build site
4. Various volunteers and machinery at build site
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Johnathon Reckford, Habitat for Humanity International CEO:
“President Carter’s often told me that building with habitat is the best way he knows to put his Christian faith into action in a very tangible way, and that he and Mrs. Carter always feel like they got more out of the building experience than anything they can put into it.”
6. Sign reading Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Work Project
7. Various volunteers working
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Barry Mason, Volunteer:
“He’d be looking at this with joy. You know, that’s the joy of what they’ve done over the decades to get this working and to have it grow like it has. And then to have it take hold here in the Twin Cities.”
9. Various Mason working with other volunteers to raise wall
STORYLINE:
A FORMER GOLF COURSE IS ABOUT TO BECOME THE CITY OF ST. PAUL’S NEWEST NEIGHBORHOOD.
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY EXPECTS MORE THAN FOUR THOUSAND VOLUNTEERS WILL HELP RAISE THE FIRST THIRTY HOMES BY THE END OF THE WEEK.
SOUNDBITE (English) Chris Coleman, Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity CEO:
“We have a huge housing crisis in the Twin Cities. We have a particular issue around equity and home ownership. And so as we build more houses and provide more opportunity, some pathways for families that wouldn’t otherwise be able to get into homeownership to get there, it changes the nature of our situation and it creates a more equitable Twin Cities.”
PLANS EVENTUALLY CALL FOR OVER A HUNDRED MORE SUSTAINABLE AND AFFORDABLE UNITS.
THE BUILD ALSO MARKS THE 100TH BIRTHDAY OF FORMER PRESIDENT JIMMY CARTER.
CARTER, ALONG WITH HIS LATE WIFE ROSALYNN, WERE LONG-TIME BACKERS OF HABITAT FOR HUMANITY’S MISSION.
SOUNDBITE (English) Johnathon Reckford, Habitat for Humanity International CEO:
“President Carter’s often told me that building with habitat is the best way he knows to put his Christian faith into action in a very tangible way, and that he and Mrs. Carter always feel like they got more out of the building experience than anything they can put into it.”
THE COUPLE’S WEEK-LONG BUILD PROJECTS BECAME AN ANNUAL FIXTURE, AND ACCORDING TO THE ORGANIZATION INCLUDED WORK ON MORE THAN FOUR THOUSAND HOMES WITH OVER A HUNDRED AND SIXTY THOUSAND VOLUNTEERS.
BARRY MASON IS ONE OF THOSE VOLUNTEERS. HE WORKED ALONGSIDE THE FORMER PRESIDENT AT A HABITAT BUILD IN HAITI.
SOUNDBITE (English) Barry Mason, Volunteer:
“He’d be looking at this with joy. You know, that’s the joy of what they’ve done over the decades to get this working and to have it grow like it has. And then to have it take hold here in the Twin Cities. He would take particular pride in the work we’re trying to do to erase racial inequity in homeownership, in particular.”
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