MOBILE, Ala. ( WKRG ) — Patricia Harris is thankful that she’s getting a new home thanks to a local organization dedicated to helping those with lower incomes become homeowners.
New Life Ministries Church donated $150,000 to the Martin Luther King Avenue Renovation Corporation to help Patricia Harris become a homeowner.
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“It makes me feel wonderful,” Harris said. “I just thank God for this opportunity also.”
The Martin Luther King Avenue Renovation Corporation coordinated this and helped build 149 homes in Mobile and counting.
“We have a lot of individuals that are not in the high price range and maybe not in our, you know, lower price range,” MLK Avenue Renovation Corporation Executive Director Daphne Pierce said. “But you have people in the middle that missed the gap. And so that ties in that middle gap the affordable near to low to moderate individuals.”
That kind of boost is essential to help minority communities. According to a 2023 study from the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University, Black Americans have the lowest homeownership rate in the United States.