Habitat
Starts New Subdivision Thanks in Part to City and County Grants
Neighborhood
will honor Warren Haynes’ commitment to Habitat
This July, Asheville
Area Habitat for Humanity will begin building a cul-de-sac of 25 single-family
Arts & Crafts style homes off Johnston Boulevard in West Asheville. The
neighborhood of Green Built NC-certified homes is expected to be complete by
the end of 2016 and will be referred to as Hudson Hills.
Asheville
Habitat purchased the Johnston Boulevard property in 2009, but only recently received
funding to begin infrastructure work. “Our work is both capital and time
intensive. We always need to be looking for land at least 3-5 years in advance to
ensure we have available building lots for future Habitat homes,” said Lew
Kraus, Executive Director.
Thanks
to grants and loans from the Asheville Regional Housing Consortium, through the
Home Investment Partnerships Program funded by Housing and Urban Development
(HUD), and the Buncombe County Affordable Housing Services Program, Habitat was
able to recently complete the infrastructure work, including grading, extending
water and sewer lines, paving the street and installing sidewalks. Habitat
volunteer crews will begin working on the site on July 7th.
The
subdivision name – Hudson Hills - was selected by Warren Haynes and his wife
Stefani Scamardo in honor of their son, Hudson. Habitat offered Haynes and
Scamardo the naming rights to recognize their long-standing commitment to
Habitat through Warren Haynes Presents:
The Annual Christmas Jam. The street – Soulshine Court - was also named in their
honor. About the name, Haynes remarked, “Soulshine
is a song that resonates with many people and it's particularly meaningful to
me because it was inspired by my father. He worked hard as a single dad to
raise me and my brothers in Asheville, so it’s fitting that a street named
Soulshine Court will be in my hometown and that it will be a place that 25
families will call home.”
In
addition to this new subdivision, work continues on a 17-house subdivision in
Swannanoa and a recently started home on Jeffress Avenue in Shiloh, stretching
Habitat’s building program across three quadrants of the county simultaneously.
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