(Florida International University) - Ten families who currently rent will become homeowners Saturday, courtesy of Habitat for Humanity’s “Blitz off Broadway” campaign to complete 10 homes on the Northwest 18th Avenue corridor in just 10 days.
Blitz off Broadway, so called because the Northwest 18th Avenue neighborhood is sometimes known by that name, is part of Habitat’s “Liberty City Shine Campaign,” a three-year effort to provide affordable housing in Liberty City by building or rehabilitating 150 homes in the area.
The JPMorgan Chase Foundation donated $500,000 to Habitat for homes in Liberty City. Miami-Dade County provided the vacant land on which the houses are built.
The annual “blitz build,” a super-accelerated construction schedule aimed at quickly building multiple houses, kicked off April 4 when some 2,500 volunteers turned out to paint, hang drywall, frame interiors, install roofs, do finish work and landscape the properties. Professionals handle the foundations and build the shells of the houses. Read More