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Habitat for Humanity house gets family

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One-year-old Beyla Ouellette-Landry is ready to pack and move into her new house in Old Town, with dad Jean-Claude Ouellette-Landry and mom Morgan Ranseth. The house will be ready this winter.

One-year-old Beyla Ouellette-Landry can't wait to move into her new house.

Jean-Claude Ouellette-Landry, left, poses with his one-year-old daughter Beyla, his partner Morgan Ranseth, his mother Tammy Ouellette and his grandmother Doreen Ouellette on the porch of his family's new home in Old Town.
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Neither can her parents. Beyla, her two siblings, Makoose, 5 and Cambria, 3 and her parents Jean-Claude Ouellette-Landry and Morgan Ranseth are the recipients of Habitat for Humanity NWT's second building project in Yellowknife.

This will be the first house the family has owned, and Ranseth says the children are as pumped as their parents.

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Volunteers, including the Ouellette-Landrys, broke ground on the Old-Town housing project in June. So far, the family has put in 500 hours of volunteer labour alongside their neighbours. The project is also supported by corporate donations of money and materials and professionals - such as electricians - volunteering their time.

Robert Charpentier, treasurer for the Habitat for Humanity NWT board, says there is a huge need for affordable housing in Yellowknife.

SA国际影视传媒淭his is a way for people that are working to move up into housing instead of continuing renting,SA国际影视传媒 he said.

Ouellette-Landry, red seal certified parts technician, told Yellowknifer home ownership has been a goal for the family, but always just out of reach.

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Through the program, homes are sold to the selected family with no down payment, financed with no-interest mortgages. The family will be required to cover the monthly mortgage payment and all other expenses.

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The 1,450-square-foot, three-bedroom home will be ready for the family to move in this winter.

SA国际影视传媒淚t's hard to put into words just how grateful we feel to be given this opportunity,SA国际影视传媒 said Ranseth.

Since Habitat for Humanity NWT launched in 2011, the organization has completed one duplex that now houses two families.

The NWT chapter is part of the internal Habitat for Humanity organization, which has built, rehabilitated, repaired or improved more than 400,000 houses worldwide, giving more than two million people a place to call home since 1976.





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