After 11 Years, Construction Begins on 4 Habitat Homes

Nash Badams learned to ride a bike in the summer of 2012. He was four years old, living with his recently divorced mother in a tent at Maurice’s Campground in Wellfleet. It wasn’t until years later that he understood the gravity of his family’s housing situation, he said after the Nov. 2 wall-raising ceremony for the Habitat for Humanity house where he and his mother, Bridget, will live starting late next year.

Their new home — a 1,200-square-foot ranch on Old King’s Highway in Wellfleet — is one of four permanently affordable houses whose construction kicked off on Saturday. For the next year, the four families who were selected for the project will each contribute at least 250 hours of labor to the construction as part of Habitat for Humanity’s “sweat equity” requirement for future homeowners.

Read the November 6th Provincetown Independent article here.