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.,f .. . e ~ LA 1.1.lpORTE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY P.O BOX 2087 LA PORTE, TX 77572-2087 City of La Porte 604 W. Fairmont Pkwy. La Porte, Texas 77571 August 13, 2003 roo ~ rn UJl,@ I t::r:::JJJ! r.'::'~l~:: I ~ " 'Il~... _..._---1 Attention: John Joerns, Asst. City Mgr. CC: Debra Feazella, City Mgr. Subject: Request for Additional Land by La Porte HFH The La Porte Chapter of Habitat for Humanity site selection committee is presently evaluating locations in La Porte for target areas that meet our criteria. For those of the Council that may not be familiar with HFH, the purpose is to improve the quality of lives and the community by assisting low income families in building and owning decent and affordable housing. This is done with volunteer labor, management expertise, and tax-deductible donations of money, land, and materials and with the help of the family that will receive the home. A no interest mortgage is executed with payments recycled back into the program to finance the next house(s} . The program was organized in La Porte in late 1993. We have just dried in the twelfth house in La Porte and are going to need our next building sites later this year to keep the momentum. (HFH International built or renovated more than 150,000 houses since 1976. ) Following meetings with you, councilman Warren, and the site committee in late 2001 it was agreed by the Chapter board of directors that we would start our program in Block 88, if we could obtain at least two sites in close proximity. The City owned five lots (two sites) in this block (8-12). One house has been completed on 8-9 and the second on 10-11 will be dedicated in late September. Lot 12 was sold to the neighbor. There were four other Building houses in partnership with God's people in need