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Our second project was the building of three homes in the City of San Jacinto on Brown Street. These homes were built in conjunction with the City of San Jacinto’s Redevelopment Agency. The project was dedicated in August of 1996.
The Affiliate completed four houses in a fourteen month period. The houses amazed many people including the City officials and inspectors, as they had as few as eleven exceptions on the first inspections. These homes were built by volunteers and the families. At that time we had a President who was a licensed contractor for single family homes.
On October 25, 1997, on Make A Difference Day, we broke ground for the fifth house. This house was built by Home Depot, the family and volunteers. Home Depot donated all of the materials needed for this project. The Family Selection committee identified a family of seven living in a two-bedroom apartment to be the recipients of this house. This home was completed in 1999.
Habitat received two separate donations of parcels of land in San Jacinto in 1997. One of these parcels was used for the Old Second Street house. This house was built in conjunction with the City of San Jacinto and Home Depot. It is for a family of six with a physically challenged 18 year old boy. This home took eighteen months to build.
The seventh and eighth houses were built on land donated by Joe Ziegler and his partner Paul Ruggieri. A single mother with five girls who had been living in motels for almost a year qualified for one and a long established Hemet family of five received the other one. Several churches in the Valley helped with materials for the first house and the banks in the Valley donated funds for the second house.
Land for house number nine was donated by Thomas B. Washburn. This house went to a family of five that had lived in a converted chicken coop for seven years. Funding came from Habitat’s fund raising event called the Diamond Valley Lake Marathon.
The Devine Family in San Jacinto donated land for house number ten to Habitat. The house was sold to a family of six whose father had a back injury. Citibank/Citigroup Foundation provided funding for half of this house.
In the year 2002 we received donation of three parcels of land from the Redevelopment Agency of the City of Hemet. The City of Hemet also paid for the street and improvements plus all of the off-site preparations. We have completed the first house for a single mother with three children with funding from Citibank for half of the materials. The second house was dedicated in October 2006 for a family of six with funding from Citigroup Foundation for half of the materials that went into the house. The family moved in November 1, 2006. The third house, number 13, has been framed and closed in for the interior to be completed during the winter.
The Hemet/San Jacinto Habitat Affiliate has provided shelter for 76 people of which 50 are children.
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