The majority of NeighborWorks network organizations have initiatives that address the interconnection between affordable homes and healthier living. Some of these projects include food pantries, exercise classes and community gardens. Programs like these are important, but there are also opportunities to have an even greater impact on a community's health by partnering with health industry organizations, according to Romi Hall, NeighborWorks America's director of healthy homes and communities.  
 

The majority of NeighborWorks network organizations have initiatives that address the interconnection between affordable homes and healthier living. Some of these projects include food pantries, exercise classes and community gardens. Programs like these are important, but there are also opportunities to have an even greater impact on a community's health by partnering with health industry organizations, according to Romi Hall, NeighborWorks America's director of healthy homes and communities.  
 

In mid-July, NeighborWorks America released its 2022 Housing and Financial Capability Survey confirming, as it has in previous years, the overwhelming desire of Americans to own their own homes.

In mid-July, NeighborWorks America released its 2022 Housing and Financial Capability Survey confirming, as it has in previous years, the overwhelming desire of Americans to own their own homes.

Kristina Aguilar's expertise was working on interior walls. DeJeaun Biggle liked the heavy lifting and tarring the foundation. But painting trim? "Tedious," he says. The neighbors worked together  to build their homes – and each other's – as a part of NeighborWorks Great Falls' Owner-Built Homes Program, which began in 2005  through USDA's Mutual Self-Help Program.

Kristina Aguilar's expertise was working on interior walls. DeJeaun Biggle liked the heavy lifting and tarring the foundation. But painting trim? "Tedious," he says. The neighbors worked together  to build their homes – and each other's – as a part of NeighborWorks Great Falls' Owner-Built Homes Program, which began in 2005  through USDA's Mutual Self-Help Program.

Arlanda Brantley says she doesn't come by exercising naturally. Nature? That's not exactly her thing, either. Yet every Saturday, she leads a group of Black women on walks through Waterbury, Connecticut.

"Every community can be a place of opportunity," shares Steve Barbier, senior relationship manager for the Western Region at NeighborWorks America. The tenet underscores NeighborWorks' decision several years ago to better understand how to be of service to Native communities.
 

In 1999, Ron and Karen Maldonado were the first. "We were the first mortgage for what was then Navajo Partnership for Housing," Ron Maldonado explains. The couple had moved from Tucson, Arizona, where they lived and worked, to Karen's homesite on the Navajo reservation where she grew up.