In 1995, another building site was acquired on Frederick Street, where we built five more new homes. We are especially pleased that young people from our community have been involved with us. Students from Huntington College's Mertz Center were essentially responsible for building one of these homes, and the Huntington North High School Building Trades Class built another. It was substantially funded by a Lilly Foundation grant and built in coooperation with the HNHS Building Trades class. A second Andrews home will be built this spring by employees of Wabash Technologies and Wells Fargo Bank.
Planning is now underway for our thirteenth home, at a site to be determined.
Leadership of the local Habitat chapter is comprised of a volunteer board and an executive director. They are supported by a volunteer network of committees. Families apply to local Habitat chapters. A family selection committee chooses homeowners on the basis of housing need, ability to repay the loan, family size, and willingness to volunteer time at the project. Every chapter follows a non-discriminatory policy of family selection.