HABITAT FOR HUMANITY

Home preservation program: our home preservation program is an outreach initiative that seeks to provide a wide range of opportunities for low to moderate-income homeowners, including veterans and seniors, who are struggling to maintain their homes because of age, disability, or family circumstances. We partner with families to help them reclaim their homes with pride and dignity. The program allows families to stay in their home and avoid the uncertainty, trauma, and expense of moving. Projects consist of interior and/or exterior repairs intended to alleviate critical health, life, and safety issues or code violations.volunteer teams work along with subcontractors under the direction of habitat for humanity of orange county staff members to complete the repairs. (continued at schedule o)during fiscal year 2024, habitat for humanity of orange county served 22 people through its long-term homeownership program. Since the inception of the home preservation repair program, habitat for humanity of orange county has partnered with 274 local homeowners, with 27 homeowners served during fy24.