About Pride Build

Pride Build embraces diversity by bringing together the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community and friends to rehabilitate a distressed home in our community for a deserving low-income family. Working alongside Habitat volunteers and partner families, Pride Build will raise the money needed to rehabilitate the home, and assist with the construction in order to make it simple, decent and energy efficient.

Who is Pride Build helping?

Habitat homeowners are selected by the Family Selection Committee based on income, housing need, willingness to partner and complete ‘sweat equity’ hours, residency in Montgomery County and ability to pay. We encourage and support a program in which there are no barriers to obtaining housing because of race, sex, marital status, physical or mental disability, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, presence of children, source of income, sexual orientation, age and family responsibilities.

When we have reached our fundraising goal and construction is completed on the home, Habitat for Humanity of Montgomery County will sell the house to the selected homeowner at below market rates, and with a 30 year, no interest mortgage. The homeowner will make affordable monthly mortgage payments and will gain equity in the home each year.

Who can participate?

Anyone and everyone! Pride Build Montgomery County aims to bring together the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community and friends together to help build homes in partnership with families in need. Our hope is to provide an opportunity to better understand diversity by working to provide simple, decent, energy efficient and affordable housing to low-income families in Montgomery County.

Start Date	Wednesday, February 23, 2011
End Date	Thursday, December 01, 2011
Location	Silver Spring ,  Maryland
Contact	Amanda Fein 301-990-0014 x20 amanda.fein at habitat-mc.org