Wright Done Right

Recently, I was given a copy of the quarterly magazine from the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation. Decades before Habitat for Humanity Founders Millard and Linda Fuller decided that building simple, decent affordable housing for local families in need should be a national phenomenon, there was Frank LLoyd Wright. The man was an architect, educator and most important, a proponent of affordable housing, well before the term 'affordable housing' really took hold of the public domain.
According to the Wright Foundation's CEO Phil Allsopp, Wright penned this phrase in 1908: "Buildings are the background or framework for the human life." A key message Wright tried to get across in all that he did was that we need to be able to act in concert with changing times.
Times like now when so many people are losing their jobs and facing the threat of losing their homes. Through all of this the lesson we've embraced includes looking for new and different ways to create quality and sustainable dwellings and, where necessary, restore existing structures.
It's this last part that brings me back to what we do here at Habitat for Humanity of New Castle County. We like to think of ourselves as providers of those "background[s] or framework[s] for human life." We've done it here in NCC for more than 20 years and even in these uncertain economic times, we will continue with the Habitat mission to build affordable housing, modify some existing structures, and also, in some ways, maintain the vision of the pioneer of affordable housing.
And so welcome to the Habitat Happenings blog. We look forward to engaging you in the mission to give hardworking, local families their shot at the American Dream of homeownership.