Inspiring Living with Mark Candelaria

Helping the Homeless with Jason Barlow & Chris Owen of Habitat for Humanity

February 03, 2021 Mark Candelaria Season 2 Episode 21
Inspiring Living with Mark Candelaria
Helping the Homeless with Jason Barlow & Chris Owen of Habitat for Humanity
Show Notes

In today’s episode, Mark speaks with Jason Barlow, President and CEO of Habitat for Humanity Central Arizona and Chris Owen, former Banking Executive turned Real Estate Agent and Chairman of the Board at Habitat for Humanity Central Arizona. Habitat is celebrating their 35th year in the Valley of the Sun and have now built more than 1,160 homes and renovated or repaired thousands more since 1985. “As long as God continues to bless us with amazing volunteers and generous sponsors like you, we will continue to grow our efforts,” says Barlow. 

The need for housing has become more essential than ever given the pandemic and hot real estate market here in Phoenix, and Habitat for Humanity fills this need for many locals struggling to afford housing. Since the outbreak, 12 new homes have been completed and their five Habitat ReStores have reopened for business along with their offices. The Habitat Central AZ team is currently planning the construction of 46 new homes through next Spring, and hundreds of other homes will be repaired or renovated.

In a past podcast episode, we recorded on-site of a Habitat home build where we interviewed Jason Barlow, a few volunteers and even the man who was going to be inhabiting this new house! He was there helping out as well and his joy was so apparent and touching and he had a sense of pride as he got to help build the house as well. Definitely go back and give that episode page a view as there are some great photos and a great podcast interview: candelariadesign.com/podcast-content/habitat  

There are so many ways to get involved with this organization and all of the wonderful ways they make an impact on so many lives by building homes, visit their website for more info!

https://habitatcaz.org/ 

https://www.instagram.com/habitatcaz/ 

https://www.facebook.com/HabitatCAZ/ 

https://twitter.com/HabitatC 

youtube.com/user/HabitatCAZ/videos

For more on this episode and all our our podcast episodes, visit our Podcast Page: candelariadesign.com/inspiring-living-podcast