{"id":61470,"date":"2026-01-22T14:33:46","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T19:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=61470"},"modified":"2026-01-22T14:33:50","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T19:33:50","slug":"lakeland-habitat-for-humanity-launches-legacy-home-program-for-seniors-to-help-prevent-homelessness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2026\/01\/22\/lakeland-habitat-for-humanity-launches-legacy-home-program-for-seniors-to-help-prevent-homelessness\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakeland Habitat for Humanity launches ‘legacy’ home program for seniors to help prevent homelessness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A Lakeland <\/a>nonprofit housing organization is launching a first-of-a-kind program that aims to prevent senior residents from ending up on the streets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lakeland Habitat for Humanity’s new legacy program offers to buy property from people losing their homes <\/a>because of city code violations. <\/p>\n\n\n

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Instead of the city just tearing the home down and the homeowner having nowhere else to go, the program will build the resident a brand-new house on the same spot, and in the same neighborhood, while also granting them life tenancy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“These are older people, and they’ve lived in these houses for generations, so not only are we not going to make a big impact on the way the community looks, but the bigger impact is we will prevent homelessness,” Claire Twomey, the CEO of Lakeland Habitat for Humanity, said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Twomey says she saw a need for this program in the community and, as a Christian organization, she came up with the idea because it’s the right and moral thing to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The reason we call it ‘legacy’ is because, instead of their legacy of being homeless, they now have a legacy of when their house, when they pass, will go to somebody else in the same position,” Twomey said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A transitional home will be built on the empty lot at North Ohio Avenue where residents will stay temporarily while their new home is being built.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s being paid for through a grant by Publix Charities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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