BY THE NUMBERS
23 — Habitat for Humanity’s years in Edmonton No. 1 — Local HFH is the largest in the country, building more than twice as many homes as Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto or Montreal 1 — Number of houses built the first year 19 — Number of years it took to build the first 100 homes 348 — Total houses built to date 100 — Average number of homes now being built each year 64 — Number of new houses under construction in Edmonton, all of them at Neufeld Landing, in Rutherford — the never mind using it.”
They weren’t unwilling to work, they were scared of something that was foreign to them, Nikolai said. “So we thought before we sent them on the build site, why don’t we introduce them to some largest single Habitat build in Canadian history 47 — The previous largest single Habitat build in Canadian history, in 2010 in Edmonton 1,100 — Average square footage of a Habitat for Humanity house, known as a stacked townhouse $300,000 — Average market price of a first-time home HFH sells to a partner family 500 — Number of hours of “sweat equity” a family has to put in working on build sites to get an HFH home of their own 1 or more — Number of children a family has to have to qualify for an HFH home $32,000-$56,000 — Annual basic skills.”
The sessions became so popular with the sweat equity families, volunteers started asking to be tool trained too.
The instructors, like Peter Johnston, are volunteers too. family income that qualifies a family for an HFH home 25 — The percentage of an HFH family’s gross monthly income that is their mortgage payment 0 — The amount of interest an HFH family pays 700 — Number of volunteers that took a basic tool training session last year 4,000 — The total number of hours those volunteers spent on a build site using their new skills 14,000+ — Number of eighthour shifts Edmonton volunteers put in last year Source: Alfred Nikolai, HFH Edmonton president and CEO The 65-year-old semi-retired IT consultant, who has worked with tools around the house all his life, took shop in school and got a fair bit of training from HFH, spends eight hours a week teaching others.