Habitat for Humanity of Glynn County, GA, Inc.
It is a tradition with Habitat for Humanity of Glynn County to dedicate a home after the mortgage is signed. At one of these dedications, a Habitat for Humanity director was having a conversation with one of the children of the new homeowners. The director asked, “What do you like best about the new house?” The young boy, about 7 years old, replied, “I like to eat when it rains.” The director inquired, “What do you mean by that?” The youngster said, “Where we lived before, every time it rained, Mom would have to use all the pots and pans to catch the rain that leaked in from the holes in the roof. She didn’t have anything to cook in.”
“They had written their names and the date, just like many others, to show the pride and joy of having a home of their own. They also wrote one other word. In very large letters, they wrote ‘BLESSED.’” (photo provided by Habitat for Humanity of Glynn County, Inc.)At a build on Union Street, after the driveway was paved, the construction manager called the office and said that someone had written in the wet cement. In a panic, I went to the job site to see the damage. Thinking on the way that some neighborhood kids may have written something inappropriate – we had scheduled a Women’s Build the next day and my concern was that we would need to repave part of the driveway. I did find that some kids had written in the cement. It was the homeowner’s children. They had written their names and the date, just like many others, to show the pride and joy of having a home of their own. They also wrote one other word. In very large letters, they wrote “BLESSED.”
Many studies have been conducted concerning the impact of homeownership on the resident children. One major study by the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University concluded that children of homeowners have better home environments, higher cognitive skills and fewer behavior problems than do children of renters. The study quantified the results of the impact; children of homeowners when compared to renters had a 13–23 percent higher quality of home environment, nine percent higher math scores, seven percent higher reading scores and a reduction in children’s behavior problems of up to three percent.
In conversations with Habitat for Humanity of Glynn County’s homeowners, the above results are evident. The parents speak of these improvements in schoolwork and behavior. One homeowner said, “It’s night and day, the minute my daughter saw our new house being built and she saw her own bedroom being framed she changed. I was having problems with her behavior, but all that changed. Her grades have improved from C’s and D’s to A’s and B’s.”
The mission of Habitat for Humanity of Glynn County is to eliminate substandard and overcrowded housing in Glynn County. We do it one family, one home at a time. Then, that one home has a ripple effect through the neighborhood and throughout our community; helping make Glynn County a better place to live for all of us.
Habitat for Humanity has built 67 houses in Brunswick-Glynn County. Housing applications are available at Habitat for Humanity of Glynn County at 41 Glynn Plaza in Brunswick, Georgia, weekdays 8:30am to 4:30pm. The office is located in the Glynn Plaza Shopping Center at the corner of Altama and Community Roads. For further information on our housing programs, please call 912-265-7455 or email us at housing@habitatglynncounty.org.
www.habitatglynncounty.org
Many studies have been conducted concerning the impact of homeownership on the resident children. One major study by the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University concluded that children of homeowners have better home environments, higher cognitive skills and fewer behavior problems than do children of renters. The study quantified the results of the impact; children of homeowners when compared to renters had a 13–23 percent higher quality of home environment, nine percent higher math scores, seven percent higher reading scores and a reduction in children’s behavior problems of up to three percent.
In conversations with Habitat for Humanity of Glynn County’s homeowners, the above results are evident. The parents speak of these improvements in schoolwork and behavior. One homeowner said, “It’s night and day, the minute my daughter saw our new house being built and she saw her own bedroom being framed she changed. I was having problems with her behavior, but all that changed. Her grades have improved from C’s and D’s to A’s and B’s.”
The mission of Habitat for Humanity of Glynn County is to eliminate substandard and overcrowded housing in Glynn County. We do it one family, one home at a time. Then, that one home has a ripple effect through the neighborhood and throughout our community; helping make Glynn County a better place to live for all of us.
Habitat for Humanity has built 67 houses in Brunswick-Glynn County. Housing applications are available at Habitat for Humanity of Glynn County at 41 Glynn Plaza in Brunswick, Georgia, weekdays 8:30am to 4:30pm. The office is located in the Glynn Plaza Shopping Center at the corner of Altama and Community Roads. For further information on our housing programs, please call 912-265-7455 or email us at housing@habitatglynncounty.org.
www.habitatglynncounty.org
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