Habitat For Humanity Breaks Ground For A New Build in Goderich

by Bob Montgomery

Habitat for Humanity broke ground for a new home in Goderich on Sunday.

The home will be built at 158 Anglesea Street in Goderich and Laurie Nicholson says she and her ten-year-old daughter and thirteen-year-old son are very excited about their new home. Laurie says they hope to be able to move into their new home in about a year. She says it's been a long wait but it's been worth the wait and she's very grateful and excited for the opportunity to provide her kids with a stable home.

Bill Don sits on the Habitat for Humanity Building committee and says the last few years have been challenging in a few ways. He says the cost of building materials has gone sky high, but that's not their biggest challenge. “The biggest thing for us today is finding the trades because in a lot of cases, such as electricians, it's getting the trades to donate their time or donate some of their product. This has become very difficult. When things were really going very well in the building industry we were able to get these people. But now there's such a shortage of the trades, it's making it even more difficult for us.”

Don says the build on Anglesea Street is going to be a difficult build for those reasons, but he adds, they've done it before and it does take some patience in cases where they've have to stop building until they can get everything together, but they did get it done and they'll get this one done too.