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Lorena’s Homeowner Story

Prior to owning her Habitat home, Lorena was living in an apartment with her three children. It was overcrowded, chaotic and her children could not play inside without complaints from neighbors. She had applied for Habitat Vail Valley homeownership several times and had yet to be accepted. She had learned from her mother, immigrant, single

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Building with Vail Resorts has become a Habitat Vail Valley tradition

The Vail Resorts team will move mountains at the Habitat for Humanity Vail Valley job site Sept. 9-13 Thursday, September 12 will be a day of celebrating partnerships, affordable homeownership and community building. After a year of helping build their homes, eight new homeowners will receive the keys to their houses at Stratton Flats in

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Adam's Way, a 16-home Habitat Vail Valley project in Eagle, CO, is close to completion

Affordable Homeownership Is a Community Builder 

I think it’s easy to articulate what homeownership means to a person and how it changes a family’s trajectory. There’s clear evidence that living in a safe, affordable home creates concentric circles of positive outcomes: financial security, education, physical and behavioral health.   What is becoming more evident is the positive impacts affordable homeownership has on

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