Habitat accepting applications from families

Fox Valley Habitat for Humanity will hold a first family recruitment day from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 24, at Genesis Community Church, 1300 S. Broadway in Montgomery.

Families in need of affordable housing, and earning $22,000 to $45,000 annually, are invited to complete an application in a single visit.

Current Habitat partner families will provide information. An educational video about Habitat homeownership will be shown. Documents required to apply are tax returns and W-2s for the past two years, past two months' payroll checkstubs, past two months' household bills, current rental or lease agreement or rent receipt, government assistance receipts, two character references, landlord and employer phone numbers and addresses, and a letter explaining interest in becoming a Habitat homeowner. Refreshments will be served.

Call (630) 859-3333 or email info@foxvalleyhabitat.org for more information.

Founded in 1989, Montgomery-based Fox Valley Habitat is a nonprofit ministry that partners with working families in need of affordable housing. Volunteers have completed 50 units housing more than 200 people in Aurora, North Aurora and Montgomery. To raise funds to build more houses, Habitat operates a ReStore retail operation at 4100 Fox Valley Center Drive in Aurora's Westfield Shopping Center. The ReStore is a 28,000-square-foot retail outlet that offers new and used building and home-decorating materials to the public. Habitat, a nonprofit 501 (c)(3) organization, operates the store from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, and 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday. The Rev. Jeff Barrett, Habitat executive director and pastor of Genesis Community Church in Montgomery, said donations and volunteers are needed to help Habitat provide more affordable housing. Call (630) 859-3333, email info@foxvalleyhabitat.org, or visit foxvalleyhabitat.org for more information.