In Mansfield, the dirt is moving on another new home community. While that’s hardly a reason for surprise in the fast-growing Tarrant County suburb, this one is — wait for it: affordable.
“Affordable homeownership is pretty much an oxymoron,” said Gage Yager, the CEO of Trinity Habitat for Humanity. “It’s hard to put those two [words] together. The prices are up so much in Fort Worth. It’s over $330,000 for the median-priced home. And it takes over $100,000 salary just to buy a home!”
So it is in this space that Yager has worked for decades to make a difference for working families.
Supporting working families priced out of the market
“It’s the teachers at the schools,” said Yager. “The bus driver. It’s most of the people that work in our hospitals and care for our elderly. That’s the essential workforce. And they’re priced out.”…