Fresno Habitat for Humanity helps single father of four become a homeowner

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- A cardinal to caller beginnings--

"It is yet here, the time is here, I got the keys to my house. My kids are going to walk their archetypal nighttime astatine location successful their ain beds. It's conscionable it is simply a immense blessing," says Tajinder Dogra, Habitat for Humanity homeowner.

Tajinder Dogra and his 4 children are present successful their everlastingly home. Dogra went from serving clip successful jailhouse and his children surviving successful motel rooms to past moving a minimum wage occupation truthful helium tin spend a cramped two-bedroom flat earlier turning his beingness around. Dogra has present dedicated his beingness to service, moving arsenic a full-time councilor.

"Homeownership was going further and further distant from me. Feeling similar I was going supra my means and surviving disconnected of my recognition and paying my credit, but erstwhile they told maine that I got accepted for a situation house, it brought the spark of homeownership backmost to me," says Dogra.

A standout among dozens of Habitat for Humanity applicants, Dogra was fixed the accidental to wage for his location astatine an affordable terms and assistance physique it from the crushed up spending astatine slightest 500 hours moving connected it with his ain 2 hands.

"I picked the colors to the house, the trim, the flooring, the carpet, the countertops everything was my pick," says Dogra.

"We picked him due to the fact that helium was showing the committedness of being a homeowner and a beardown homeowner for the future," says Ashley Hedemann, CEO of Habitat for Humanity Greater Fresno Area.

Little miracles on the mode added the finishing touches similar a $35,000 donation by the Fresno Association of Realtors and furnishings provided by a section developer, The Alvarado Group. Local movers, Meathead Movers joined connected the effort, and helped determination the furnishings into the location with an 80% discount.

Amid a nationalist lodging crisis, Ashley Hedemann CEO of Fresno's Habitat for Humanity says these victories are important present much than ever.

"We've seen specified a tremendous summation successful the lodging marketplace and the deficiency of affordable lodging present and much specifically the deficiency of homeownership opportunities successful the vale is decreasing and that's what Habitat is astir and we're present to make those opportunities," says Hedemann.

This is the 167th location Habitat for Humanity has built successful the greater Fresno area, this 1 measurement person of their extremity and ngo to assistance members of the assemblage go location owners and make generational wealthiness for many.

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