When Kiara lost her grandmother as a child, she also lost the only true home she had known. She was transitioned from her grandmother’s house in West Baltimore to a foster home across the city. This experience instilled her with the resolve to make sure she would never again find herself in such a helpless position. In 2019, she gave birth to a daughter, and her resolve grew.
In 2021, Kiara learned about our Path to Own program from a friend living in one of ReBUILD’s rental homes. She soon began working with our program managers to view homes in our portfolio and to begin mortgage prequalification. Path to Own guided her through the homebuying process from start to finish.
Kiara has many reasons to feel happy about her new home. She can walk to her job at Johns Hopkins Hospital, just four blocks away. She can make any additions to the home she wants. She can experience the growth of the community around her. Most importantly, she can provide her daughter with financial security, and with a place that she knows she will be able to call home.
“Now I can walk to work, and I can walk my daughter to school. I feel happy to be waking up here every day and feeling like ‘this is my home.’ I just cannot believe it’s mine.”
Kiara
Path to Own Homebuyer
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