“I’ve been renting my whole life,” Chet says. “Just living in the Bay, it’s so expensive. With one income, it’s impossible for me to afford a home on my own.”
Meet Chet, one of the future residents of Esperanza Place. Chet and her daughter, 16-year-old K.C. have big hearts. When they’re not putting hours in at the construction site to build their future home at Esperanza Place, Chet spends her working days helping connect the community to health services, and K.C. spends her spare time volunteering locally.
The two are looking forward to the peace and freedom of a place to call their own. Chet remembers the day she learned she was selected to purchase a home at Esperanza Place “I was just so happy.” She was eager to share it with K.C., bringing her out to the construction site to show her around. “Her first day out here, I was showing her everything,” Chet recalls. “’This is the living room, and here’s your room...’and she stopped and said, ‘I get my own room?’ That’s when she really got excited.”
While they look forward, Chet and K.C. are also enjoying the current process. “It is really cool to see all our homes being built from the ground up,” Chet says. As for participating in the building, she adds, “It’s such a good experience. And, hey, maybe I’ll learn how to fix stuff!”
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