“There’s not a day that goes by that I wonder, how did God give me everything I needed in this house? This to me is a miracle,” said 65-year-old Mark Stenson. In less than a year, Stenson changed his financial reality from “living disability check to disability check” to having financial stability. At 58, the
“Shawn’s goal after nursing school was to buy a home. The mother of three young children was tired of renting and paying someone else’s mortgage,” said Tammy Edwards, WIN’s HUD-certified housing counselor. The two met in October of 2023 after Shawn had attended WIN’s homebuyer class. It was there that she learned that WIN provided
For Devoe Sherman, a single father of two young daughters, the experience of buying a home “was like going through a storm ... you don’t know what you don’t know," exclaimed Sherman. He used WIN's free, one-on-one HUD-certified housing counseling program to "get to a brighter day." Sherman wanted a home for his family, but he didn’t
It took patience, but Tamisha Gibson got what she wanted a 3-bedroom house with an enclosed porch, a backyard, and a nice-sized kitchen. “I like the rain, and now I can sit on my porch and listen to it,” said Gibson. She had wanted a home for a long time but had put that
If you or someone you know calls Working In Neighborhoods (WIN) for information about our homebuyer program, you’ll talk with Kai Jones, WIN’s housing counselor intake specialist. Jones has first-hand experience with how WIN’s homebuyer classes and one-on-one counseling can help you achieve your goal of homeownership. In 2015, Kai Jones was a recently-married
