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Heritage Oaks II
The sweet sound of children playing in the sun. Parents watching from behind flower boxes on their porches. Neighbors welcoming, waving, visiting, caring. There’s a common bond. It’s a neighborhood. It’s Heritage Oaks II.
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View one-minute video of Heritage Oaks I in Grass Valley.
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Celebrating 25 years in Nevada County
Since our inception as an independent affiliate of Habitat for Humanity 25 years ago, we’ve brought people together to build homes, neighborhoods, and hope – driven by a shared vision of a community where everyone has a decent place to live.
It Takes a Village.
A Habitat Village.
There is a crisis
The median home price in Nevada County is over $451,300, while the median income in Grass Valley is $33,325. Rents aren’t any better. A small 3-bedroom house will run over $2,000/mo, while 2-bedroom apartments run $1,300-1,700/mo. With local high school enrollments down 19% over the past five years, it is just one indicator that working-class families are moving out of Nevada County—and that’s bad for everyone.
There’s a solution
Habitat for Humanity is the only local builder of truly affordable homes in Nevada County. Working-class families are provided an opportunity own a home with a mortgage payment ranging $650-$850 per month, depending on the size of the home and they invest 500 hours of sweat equity and pay a 1% down payment.
100% of high school age “Habitat Kids” graduate, with many going on to college and trade schools.
Building a community
In 2021 we embark on building a new 14-home neighborhood, Heritage Oaks II, on Joyce Drive in Grass Valley (across the street from Heritage Oaks I). Nevada County Habitat will begin developing the land for Heritage Oaks II during Winter 2020 and we need your help to give this new neighborhood life. Help add 14 new homes—and more importantly, 14 new families—to this neighborhood!
Costs breakdown
Before the foundations are laid, Nevada County Habitat needs, among other things, grading and site preparation, and installing water, sewer and power lines.
The total cost of infrastructure is $750,000. We’ve already raised $500,000.
We now need your help in raising $250,000, which will get us to building the first of this 14-home neighborhood!
We Have the Power to Impact Our Future, and We’re Doing Something About It
“With this home I can create a loving and stable home for my three girls. My children have grown up not knowing from one month to the next where they were going to live – they still ask me if we’re really getting a home. I look forward to the day we move in, and how for the first time they will know what security is, they will grow up knowing they have value and worth. That is all a mother can wish for and I am so grateful to Habitat and all who support Habitat for helping me to give them that.” ─ Catherine, Habitat homeowner
Happening Now
Homeowner Support: After the Selection, the Work Begins
We’ve shared the videos and photos of showing up at a workplace, a group of people bearing balloons and flowers, jubilantly informing a hopeful that she has been selected as a new Habitat homeowner. There is laughter, often tears. And it’s all happy. But, what comes...
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Real people. Real stories.
NC Habitat Breaks Ground on Park Place Development
On Sunday, February 9, 2020, Nevada County Habitat for Humanity broke ground on Park Place, its' new 4-home development located on Stennett and Kendall Streets in Grass Valley. The location is one block from Memorial Park. Three of the four new homeowners have been...
Heritage Oaks Neighborhood Completed
As Whitney sat at a table in one of Placer Title’s conference rooms in Grass Valley, signing her name to a sales agreement for her new home, it marked the end of a long journey. For Whitney it was the crescendo of a process that led her to take the keys of her new...
Bringing the Neighborhood Together Through Reading
One day while he was at school, Corbin, 12, saw a small house sitting atop a post next to a bench. It was filled with books. Wanting to do something nice for his Heritage Oaks neighborhood, Corbin decided this would be a worthy project. “I knew that a lot of people in...
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Your financial support helps build homes and hope for working families in Nevada County. Every penny goes directly toward a new family’s home, and you can see where 100% of your donation goes every time you drive by a Habitat home.
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Heritage Oaks II
How You Can Contribute
- Make a cash donation online.
- Mail your gift to:
Nevada County Habitat
PO Box 2997
Grass Valley, CA 95945 - Make a donation of stock.
- Make a donation from your IRA.
- Remember Nevada County Habitat for Humanity in your will or trust.
- Donate real property—a second home or land.
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