Habitat for Humanity of Metro Denver has helped build many new lives over the past forty years.
. After researching the organization, she thought she'd found the path to a better living situation.
While Habitat for Humanity of Metro Denver has always focused on building homes, largely through volunteer labor, for those who can't otherwise afford them, it's also done repair work on houses and started some spin-off ventures. In 2004, the metro Denver affiliate opened its first home-improvement thrift store, also known as a"restore." By 2006, it had enough volunteers to build fifteen homes in a week.
Although Farhana divorced her husband the year after they moved in, she and her children stayed in the home, and the kids attended schools in the Cherry Creek School District all the way through high school. While living in her Habitat house, Farhana got a bachelor's degree in information technology and communications and a master's degree in finance. Her current husband, James Morales, moved in, and together they renovated the house, turning it into a smart home.
The couple put in over 1,000 combined hours of sweat equity, put down a $1,000 down payment ,and in 1999 moved their family into a four-bedroom, two-bathroom house in Lakewood. Penny got a job as cafeteria manager at Dennison Elementary, a job she still loves, and they raised their five children in the home. They'd fully paid off their mortgage by the time they sold the house for $343,000 in 2019, twenty years after moving in.
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