Homeownership is one of the most powerful tools a person can use to build a strong, stable future. The life-changing benefits of affordable homeownership are immense: it can improve school performance, improve financial outcomes, and enhance the health and well-being of children and adults, just to name a few. Yet due to gendered systemic barriers, like the pay gap's impact on credit access and uneven childcare responsibilities that limit time and financial resources, it is far more difficult for women to become homeowners. It's even harder for Black women. Learn more here: https://my.habitatchicago.org/WomenBuild2025/Static/why-women-build-matters

I became a first-time homeowner myself last year, and I know how much that door opening changed things for me. That's why this October, I'm grabbing my hammer and joining Habitat Chicago's Women Build alongside hundreds of determined women to knock these barriers down. Together, we'll help our fellow women become homeowners with Habitat Chicago, a nonprofit championing healthy neighborhoods by investing in resident priorities, building quality homes, and supporting homeownership.

You can make a difference by helping me reach my fundraising goal and prove there's nothing a group of committed women can't do.

Change happens one person at a time. I appreciate any support you can give, big, small, or somewhere in between.


Thanks,
Courtney