Family Stories

In 2013, when Ezequiel and Salome were just 7 and 8 years old, their father abandoned the family. He cut Manuela off from their bank accounts, sabotaged her car, and didn’t pay rent or child [...]

Joseph and Pricilla have wanted to own a home for a very long time. They want their four children to know they have a safe and stable place to come back to, with the room to grow independent and [...]

When they think about what their new home will be like, Adan and Guadalupe picture a completely different life. “Stability, comfort, safety – everything’s going to be better,” Guadalupe says. [...]

Both originally from Sinaloa in Mexico, they’re looking forward to a better life for their family. “We experienced violence in Culiacán and we didn’t want that for our children,” says Ana Karina. [...]

A veteran who served in the 82nd Airborne Corp, John Johnson was struggling with the repairs his aging home required. A friend called on John's behalf and Habitat Tucson’s Home Repair Supervisor [...]

Fatu came from Liberia to Tucson as a refugee eleven years ago.Everything she does is to provide her children with a better life.

“If you don’t serve mankind then what are you doing in this world?” says veteran homeowner Joseph Bailey Jr.Joseph has completed over 150 sweat equity hours in just six months of being in the [...]

Thanks to her mother, all of Abril’s childhood memories are in one house growing up.

“Before the war, life in the Congo was easy. We worked. It was good. But then we couldn’t stay,” said Singaye, who after a long journey moved to Tucson with his wife Esperance and their five [...]

Elizabeth had not had heating in her home for the last 11 years. She recalls her house getting as low at 32 degrees – literally freezing. Elizabeth would have to bundle up in her husbands’ old [...]