UC Celebrates the Completion of a Sixth Home Built in Partnership with Cincinnati Habitat for Humanity

TyAnn Edwards and her teenage son, Dwight Williams, are about to officially become first-time homeowners in Avondale with the help of UC volunteers – a home that through UC student input is better equipped to accommodate Edwards’ wheelchair after she was paralyzed in a car accident two decades ago. The celebration of the sixth home built in partnership with the University of Cincinnati and Cincinnati Habitat for Humanity

takes place at noon, Saturday, June 27, at the home’s location at 3253 Wolseley Lane

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Edwards’ family was required to invest 500 hours of “sweat equity” into purchasing the home with a 25-year, interest-free mortgage payable to Cincinnati Habitat for Humanity. UC volunteers spent Saturdays working at the site.

UC commits to the funding and to supplying the volunteers for its annual builds with Cincinnati Habitat for Humanity. Each year the partnership must raise $78,000 to build these homes.

The UC/Cincinnati Habitat for Humanity partnership is supported by Fifth Third Bank, the Messer Construction Company and UC Athletics, with support from University Dining Services, which provides Saturday lunches for the volunteers.

Note: Wolseley Lane is a new street. It can be accessed by turning off of Martin Luther King Blvd. to Reading Road (traveling away from downtown) and turning left on Hale Street. Parking for the Saturday event is available in the parking lot of the nearby Wesley Child Care Center. The new street can be seen from the left of Hale Street.

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