After renting for her entire adult life, Amanda Mather came to Homewise in Santa Fe, New Mexico, in 2009 to purchase her first house. Coming from a family of Santa Fe artists, it was important to her to find a home where she could express her unique style.

Sherry Farley, President and CEO, Frontier Housing
Stacey Epperson, President and Founder, Next Step Network

Ludy Biddle, Executive Director, NeighborWorks of Western Vermont

When Erin Sorensen and her husband moved into the Veterans Park neighborhood of Boise, Idaho, it was so “rough” he wondered why she was insistent it was a good choice. A few homes were clearly a hive of drug-related activity, police came in and out, fences were vandalized with spray paint and the school bus was a shooting target.

As a resident of the College Park neighborhood in Las Vegas for 54 years, RaeAnn Peterson with NHS of Southern Nevada didn’t stand around and wait for someone else to fix problems in her neighborhood.

Ponce Neighborhood Housing Services (NHS) is helping a group of residents transform an abandoned garden in the rural community of La Moca, Puerto Rico, into a community farm growing herbs for homemade “sofrito” that can be sold at market.