Remembering President Carter

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When people learn I work for Habitat, people of all backgrounds say, “Jimmy Carter is a great man.” He loved people. He put that love into action. He lived with an integrity that gave him a moral authority that called people together and made you want to build a better future. We will miss that now that he is gone.

Building together for 40 years

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Four decades of life-changing work is punctuated with impressive statistics and heart-warming stories. For Asheville Area Habitat for Humanity on its 40th Anniversary, those statistics and stories speak to the enduring power of partnership.

Asheville’s Swimming Pool: Learning from the Past

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In The Sum of Us, author Heather McGhee uses public swimming pools as a metaphor for her thesis that zero-sum thinking about race creates policies that hurt the whole community. In this blog post, learn the history of Asheville’s Recreation Park and how the same zero-sum thinking that led us to “drain the pool” shows up in housing, too.