CINCINNATI — An inflated housing market is putting pressure on charitable organizations like Habitat for Humanity of Greater Cincinnati,.
On Friday, the group held a kickoff celebration for the start of construction of a new home being built in Lockland for a truck driver named Reggina Taylor.
“I’ll be there every weekend putting my hard work in,” said Taylor. “It’s something that is going to be there for years.”
Taylor and a group of volunteers from Ohio National Financial Services spent the morning laying the framework for Taylor’s exterior walls.
“Habitat is not just building homes, they’re building communities,” said Pam Webb, Ohio National Financial Services’ senior vice president. “If you go to streets in different neighborhoods you’ll see several habitat homes, they are supporting each other.”
Habitat for Humanity president and CEO Ed Lee said in recent months volunteers, materials and money to construct homes are getting harder to …