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New Story (YC S15 nonprofit) Crowdfunds Houses for Homeless Families

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Re: New Story (YC S15 nonprofit) Crowdfunds Houses for Homeless Families

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Post by Matth3wMarshall »

ROFISH wrote: post #5
frankdenbow wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is a great idea. I did a lot of work with Habitat for Humanity and helping build homes is a powerful part of getting people out of poverty & into the workforce. How do you handle the production of the homes and do you have plans to improve that process?

Another similar question: How do you handle the purchasing of land? Do the recipients own the land?

Hi ROFISH!

The Haitian government supports this project and has issued the land for this purpose (home building) so the families will not only own the physical structures, but the land as well :)

--Matthew (Co-Founder of New Story)

Re: New Story (YC S15 nonprofit) Crowdfunds Houses for Homeless Families

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soneca wrote: post #6
bretthagler wrote: post #2

hey guys! would love any feedback, and here to answer any questions you might have.

Do you have issues with land property? If you do, how do you solve that? I have some experience with housing social projects in Brazil. And it was a big problem that the ones with most need for a decent house were exactly the ones with illegal settling. Illegal settling is a danger in itself, because in real life for this families is understood as "temporary settling", as there are no formal guarantees that you stay…

Hi soneca!

Re: Issue with land property: The Haitian government has issued this land for this purpose (home building). So the families will own the land as well as the physical structures. Our mission is to build as many self sustaining communities around the world and this is something that we are very proud of.

Thanks! --Matthew (Co-Founder of New Story)

Re: New Story (YC S15 nonprofit) Crowdfunds Houses for Homeless Families

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Post by Matth3wMarshall »

masterminding wrote: post #13

Dope.

Thanks bra! Check out the first family we helped fund in their new home newstorycharity.org/maria-rose

Each donor gets a video of the EXACT family they helped fund in their new home #transparency

--Matthew (Co-Founder New Story) newstorycharity.org

Re: New Story (YC S15 nonprofit) Crowdfunds Houses for Homeless Families

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Post by Matth3wMarshall »

gkop wrote: post #15

How does your housing compare with what the Earthship crew brought to Haiti in 2010? http://earthship.com/haiti

Oh cool! So, our homes are constructed with reinforced concrete and built to US and Miami-Dade county standards.

The really awesome thing is that local Haitians from the community we work in are building the homes - a true boost to the local economy.

Check out the first family we helped move into their new home - newstorycharity.org/maria-rose :)

-- Matthew (Co-founder of New Story)

Re: New Story (YC S15 nonprofit) Crowdfunds Houses for Homeless Families

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Post by gkop »

Matth3wMarshall wrote: post #16
gkop wrote: post #15

How does your housing compare with what the Earthship crew brought to Haiti in 2010? http://earthship.com/haiti

Oh cool! So, our homes are constructed with reinforced concrete and built to US and Miami-Dade county standards. The really awesome thing is that local Haitians from the community we work in are building the homes - a true boost to the local economy. Check out the first family we helped move into their new home - newstorycharity.org/maria-rose :) -- Matthew (Co-founder of New Story)

Not too shabby, thanks for the reply, and keep up the good work.

Re: New Story (YC S15 nonprofit) Crowdfunds Houses for Homeless Families

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Post by Matth3wMarshall »

gkop wrote: post #17
Matth3wMarshall wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh cool! So, our homes are constructed with reinforced concrete and built to US and Miami-Dade county standards. The really awesome thing is that local Haitians from the community we work in are building the homes - a true boost to the local economy. Check out the first family we helped move into their new home - newstorycharity.org/maria-rose :) -- Matthew (Co-founder of New Story)

Not too shabby, thanks for the reply, and keep up the good work.

Will do! And if you wanna follow along our journey we'll just be over here twitter.com/newstorycharity
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