Building An Afforable Community From Scratch

South Ranch is a success story of a 195-home community developed and maintained by lower-income, first-time homeowners.

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March 11, 2002, 9:00 AM PST

"Only a decade ago, South Ranch was a scrubby, 40-acre lot that Bank of America donated to Habitat for Humanity's Valley of the Sun affiliate for a project that made some area residents squirm, a 195-home development built and maintained by first-time homeowners climbing out of economic hardship. Rather than build a house here and a house there, the idea was to give affordable housing a new face by creating a community from the ground up."

Thanks to Tom Collins

FULL STORY: 'Habitat' community grows up

Sunday, March 10, 2002 in The Arizona Republic

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