Even during a pandemic, great things can happen when organizations team up to benefit others.

Peninsula Housing Authority (PHA) along with Habitat for Humanity of Clallam County (HFH) collaborated to make homeownership become a reality for a local Forks family.

Lana Sampson of Forks set out on a mission to provide a home for herself and her children. Sampson’s first step was to contact the PHA and inquiry about the Mutual Self-Help Program.

HFH had also been in communication with the PHA regarding a vacant, recently built home in Forks.

With collaboration between the PHA and HFHCC and funding through a no-down-payment, low-interest loan from USDA Rural Development, Sampson was able to purchase the recycled Habitat home built in 2016. Keeping the home in the affordable house inventory in the Forks Community.

Sampson will join five other families in Forks using the mutual self-help method which requires these families to dedicate time every week constructing the homes together.

These families will soon realize their dreams of homeownership and creating a neighborhood.