A group of seven women who are mortgage bankers by day will be involved in housing in an entirely different way on June 9. The team from Charlotte’s HomeTrust Bank will be putting on their hard hats and taking up ...

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Nearly 200 volunteers from AmeriCorps and Habitat for Humanity International will build or perform critical repairs on 12 houses in the Charlotte area next week. Some of those projects will take place in Charlotte’s Lakewood neighborhood, with Build-a-Thon workers launching ...

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About 80 women with hardhats and hammers descended on northwest Charlotte’s Lakewood neighborhood Friday to frame and raise the outside walls on three new homes, an event that kicked off Habitat for Humanity Charlotte’s Women Build’s 25th anniversary. It was ...

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The Charlotte City Council on Monday unanimously approved the allocation of $800,000 in federal funds to Habitat for Humanity of Charlotte and Goodwill Industries. Under an agreement with the city, each nonprofit will receive $400,000 to rehabilitate homes owned by ...

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CHARLOTTE – One of Habitat for Humanity International’s biggest chapters is losing its president after only two years. Frank Spencer, a retired banker, commercial real estate broker and investor, was named president of Charlotte Habitat in 2012. Under Spencer’s leadership, ...

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How do you build a house in 30 hours? Help. Lots of help, like 150 around-the-clock volunteers, a handful of professional supervisors and a dozen paid AmeriCorps interns. If there was a third "H" in Habitat for Humanity, Frank Spencer said, it would stand for help, on which the organization depends for its existence.

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CHARLOTTE — Thirteen weeks and 3 1/2 miles later, the house built by Habitat for Humanity in an uptown parking lot during the 2012 Democratic National Convention was turned over to its new owner at a ceremony Thursday. Darcel and ...

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This month, Bert Green is stepping down as CEO of Charlotte Habitat for Humanity and, instead, will serve as director of strategic initiatives, a newly created position.

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There’s only one way in to Windy Ridge: across freight train tracks that zipper up the subdivision on three sides. Living room windows offer views of a cardboard box factory and a Pepsi bottling plant. It’s an unlikely place to ...

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When a property goes into foreclosure for unpaid property taxes, it can be a pain for county government, burdening it with liabilities and maintenance costs. But to some nonprofits and other developers, the foreclosures are like real estate aspirin, alleviating ...

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