MennoHomes

NEWS RELEASE FROM MENNOHOMES INC
JUNE 22, 2011

MennoHomes Inc is a non-profit organization and a registered federal charity, as of September, 2001.  Its sole purpose, as enshrined in its charter, is to provide affordable housing to persons of low and modest income including, seniors, families, single persons and persons with disabilities.

Now in its 10th anniversary year, with the Elmira Build, MennoHomes will have helped create 100 units of housing worth over $10 million in affordable housing stock.

The Elmira Build 2011 represents units #99 and #100.

Today is the groundbreaking ceremony for the Elmira Build 2011.  It will be a semi-detached building, for two large families, on Centre Street in Elmira.

Feeling Great In New Homes

Large rural families are living in buildings that would be condemned if a building inspector made a visit. This was Shirley Redekop’s urgent message to the MennoHomes’ annual meeting in November, 2007. Shirley, a Rural Outreach Worker, was well qualified to make such a strong statement. On her caseload are mainly large Low German families many living in sub-standard housing conditions.

Two years later a blonde seven-year-old responded to her Wellesley public school teacher’s question: “What do you like best about your new home?” Her immediate answer was: “I like that it is warm.”