Would you like to spend one day a month helping low-income families improve their housing conditions? Your response may be similar to my own when I was confronted with this request by the Director of Habitat for Humanity in New York City. I remember thinking, “Why should a busy British expatriate— trained in finance, not house building—spend his spare time working in a dilapidated six-story tenement block on East Sixth Street?”
Nevertheless my wife, Catherine, and I soon changed our minds. Within weeks, we came to appreciate the strengths of Habitat.
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