Ms Rosie - Home Fund Seen On WFAA 8
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I fell in love with this story and this woman. I was moved to make a difference and right away contacted Matt Hilton. He asked that I set up this account to raise funds for much needed supplies so the work can continue. The workers are many but the supplies and funds are what is truly needed now. Let your hearts be moved as mine to help this sweet woman be back in her home soon.
Story Below!
McKINNEY – Rosie Woods says a prayer at her home every day. Except her home is really a concrete slab a couple hundred feet from railroad tracks.
The foundation has been laid, but there are no walls and, certainly no roof over her head.
"This is home. Bought it and paid for it," she said. "This is home."
Her home on Railroad Street was hers for 45 years. She distinctly remembers buying it in 1970, roughly four years after she arrived to the area.
ut in its last years, it wasn't much of a home.
"Probably one of the worst ones we've seen," said Celeste Cox of the North Collin County Habitat for Humanity.
Her roof leaked, her floor caved, and her house was absolutely unlivable. She went to the City of McKinney for help hoping a Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) would help revitalize the home.
"Because she lives across the street from a railroad track and because the noise pollution [...] she didn't qualify," said Matt Hilton, a realtor and a board member for Habitat for Humanity.
Woods would later apply to Habitat for Humanity through a rehab program called "A Brush With Kindness." However this rehab program was mostly for exterior work, and Woods' home was to the point where it needed to be demolished.
Woods also didn't qualify for a new home by Habitat because she didn't meet the income and debt criteria required.
"I said, 'God, this is a need — not a want. I need this house,'" the 70-year-old said. "Next morning, Mr. Hilton called me."
Matt Hilton with the Habitat board started working from the ground up, but it has taken awhile to get Ms. Rosie in her home.
"It's now been seven months," said Hilton, who is now having to go through unconventional means to build her a new home.
Initially, the rains in the early part of the year delayed everything.
People kinda fell off. The ball quit rolling, and the momentum had stopped," Hilton said.
Contractors who initially agreed to help had to move on as the timeline expanded.
For Woods, faith gives her strength. Organizers at The Samaritan Inn, a homeless program in McKinney that provides shelter, have been gracious to invite her into the facility. She has spent considerable time there, and Hilton tells us she has been a huge positive for the shelter.
"These two things will be in my house, on my refrigerator, and by my bedside table," Woods said, picking up a magnet that reads "Faith" and a Bible.
Until her home is fully built, she vows to come back to that concrete slab where here living room used to be and say a prayer.
A Facebook page has been dedicated to the effort of building her a new home.
Story Below!
McKINNEY – Rosie Woods says a prayer at her home every day. Except her home is really a concrete slab a couple hundred feet from railroad tracks.
The foundation has been laid, but there are no walls and, certainly no roof over her head.
"This is home. Bought it and paid for it," she said. "This is home."
Her home on Railroad Street was hers for 45 years. She distinctly remembers buying it in 1970, roughly four years after she arrived to the area.
ut in its last years, it wasn't much of a home.
"Probably one of the worst ones we've seen," said Celeste Cox of the North Collin County Habitat for Humanity.
Her roof leaked, her floor caved, and her house was absolutely unlivable. She went to the City of McKinney for help hoping a Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) would help revitalize the home.
"Because she lives across the street from a railroad track and because the noise pollution [...] she didn't qualify," said Matt Hilton, a realtor and a board member for Habitat for Humanity.
Woods would later apply to Habitat for Humanity through a rehab program called "A Brush With Kindness." However this rehab program was mostly for exterior work, and Woods' home was to the point where it needed to be demolished.
Woods also didn't qualify for a new home by Habitat because she didn't meet the income and debt criteria required.
"I said, 'God, this is a need — not a want. I need this house,'" the 70-year-old said. "Next morning, Mr. Hilton called me."
Matt Hilton with the Habitat board started working from the ground up, but it has taken awhile to get Ms. Rosie in her home.
"It's now been seven months," said Hilton, who is now having to go through unconventional means to build her a new home.
Initially, the rains in the early part of the year delayed everything.
People kinda fell off. The ball quit rolling, and the momentum had stopped," Hilton said.
Contractors who initially agreed to help had to move on as the timeline expanded.
For Woods, faith gives her strength. Organizers at The Samaritan Inn, a homeless program in McKinney that provides shelter, have been gracious to invite her into the facility. She has spent considerable time there, and Hilton tells us she has been a huge positive for the shelter.
"These two things will be in my house, on my refrigerator, and by my bedside table," Woods said, picking up a magnet that reads "Faith" and a Bible.
Until her home is fully built, she vows to come back to that concrete slab where here living room used to be and say a prayer.
A Facebook page has been dedicated to the effort of building her a new home.
Organizer
Steve Jaynes
Organizer
Princeton, TX
