A Clayton State University accountant got an early Christmas gift last week from Southern Crescent Habitat for Humanity and former Atlanta Falcon Warrick Dunn.
Shaneeka Grant was given the keys to a new home in Henry County as part of Habitat’s and Dunn’s efforts to offer housing to those seeking shelter of their own.
Grant, a single mother of three, helped in the realization of the house through “sweat equity,” Southern Crescent Habitat said in a release. The group also provided Grant with $5,000 in down payment assistance.
Dunn, who added another $5,000 for a down payment on the home, additionally connected the family with $10,000 worth of furnishings from Atlanta-based lease-to-own retailer Aaron’s.
Henry County, in a release, said such efforts help “stabilize neighborhoods by restoring foreclosed properties and redeveloping abandoned/vacant properties to create affordable homeownership and rental opportunities for households at or below 50% of the area medium income.”
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