NORTHAMPTON COUNTY, Pa. \u2013 25 families in need will soon have homes in Northampton County thanks to a collaborative effort between the county and Habitat for Humanity Lehigh Valley.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“Homes at Forks”, the collaborative project, has received final approval from Forks Township Board of Supervisors, according to county officials.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Officials say that the 12-acre development is located off Kesslersville Road near the Two T\u2019s Family Entertainment Center and Braden Airpark in Forks Township.<\/p>\n
This project will provide attainable housing for 25 families in need, according to a news release.<\/p>\n
In true Habitat for Humanity fashion, each future homeowner will contribute 250 hours of sweat equity in helping to build their home, officials said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are incredibly proud of what this project represents and are eager to begin preparing the site for development,\u201d said Northampton County Executive Tara Zrinski.<\/p>\n
Officials say that the land was purchased in November 2022 by Habitat Lehigh Valley with support from Northampton County, which allocated $2 million in American Rescue Plan Act funds to the project.<\/p>\n
\u201cHabitat Lehigh Valley is so grateful to have such a wonderful partnership with Northampton County,\u201d said Jessica Elliott of Habitat for Humanity Lehigh Valley. \u201cWe cannot wait to get started on making sure 25 hardworking families have a safe place to call home.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cLast week, we finally crossed the finish line, and it is a moment worth celebrating,\u201d Zrinski said. \u201cMore updates are forthcoming, as we move into this exciting next phase.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NORTHAMPTON COUNTY, Pa. \u2013 25 families in need will soon have homes in Northampton County thanks to a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194024,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[214,153,155,154,6290,434],"class_list":["post-194023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-easton-area","tag-northampton-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}