On January 16th, I devoted my saturday to volunteering at the Habitat for Humanity East Bay site in Oakland, California. I went with my friend and classmate Grant and we worked from 8am until 4pm building houses. Our particular job for the day was setting up the walls in the second story of a house being built. I enjoyed participating in the building of these houses and everyone working at the site was very friendly and helpful. The Habitat for Humanity site was located in a very poor neighborhood of Oakland and it will be interesting seeing what the impact of these new houses being built will have on the area. I was told by my friend that one of these homes was actually set on fire at night by a molotov cocktail that was thrown at one of the houses during construction over the summer.
Obviously affordable housing is a current problem in America and it affects many people throughout our country. Habitat for Humanity is a large organization that works to help this situation across the world by creating affordable housing for people earning low incomes. Through is organization, more and more people are given the opportunity to live in a house of their own that they can afford.
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