The Wirth family is a local Sacramento Veteran family.  Mark Wirth served 6-years in the U.S. Air Force.  He and Emily grew up in poverty with parents who suffered from addiction issues.  They were the first in their families to graduate from High School and are both working towards their nursing degrees while raising their two children – 7-year old Natalie and 3-year old Troy. They are currently living in an overpriced rental home and paying over 50% of their gross income on rent alone (over the past few years...

At Habitat for Humanity, we’re lucky to witness new beginnings in our work all the time. We celebrate a fresh start whenever we plant shovels in the earth at the Groundbreaking of a new site. We look with hope and optimism to a renewed future at every Home Dedication. We see children race through newly-built bedrooms as their parents clutch their house keys for the first time. We’re also lucky enough to celebrate completions. We honored to celebrate Russell Johnson, who recently finished paying the mortgage on his Habitat home.

My name is Tracy Owens and I’m a single mother of an 11 year old boy, named Cody. I am a very proud recipient of a home from Habitat for Humanity. I will never be able to express my gratitude for this priceless gift of a new, safe and beautiful home. At age 35 I was diagnosed with breast cancer. I went through a double mastectomy a total hysterectomy, reconstruction and 39 sessions of radiation. As I was going through this, 3 months prior to my diagnosis, my Dad was...