FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Release Date: June 11, 2002

Contact:

 Steve Rector
Public Affairs Director
208-331-4725
Reed Hollinshead
Media & Public Relations Officer
208-331-4858

North Idaho Residents Celebrate Finally Home!® National Home Ownership Friday, June 14

BOISE - The dream of home ownership will become a reality for three North Idaho residents on Friday, June 14 at 10:30 a.m., as the three will receive the keys to their new homes during a special celebration of National Home Ownership Month. The ceremony will take place at the new home of one of the recipients, in Coeur d’Alene. The three new home owners—Charlene Dana, Pam Hill and Steve Listman, Jr.—will be honored with each’s participating financial institution.

Dana graduated from Idaho Housing and Finance Association’s Family Self-Sufficiency program and has an IHFA loan. Hill has invested the necessary 250 hours of sweat equity into her new home, through Habitat for Humanity of North Idaho. Listman, Jr. secured his home loan through the U.S. Department of Agriculture-Rural Development, and IHFA paid the closing costs. All three are Special Needs participants, and all three are graduates of Idaho Housing and Finance Association’s Finally Home! ® home buyer education program.

The event is being sponsored by:

  • U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

  • Idaho Housing and Finance Association

  • Finally Home! ®

  • U.S. Department of Agriculture – Rural Development

  • Fannie Mae

  • North Idaho Community Services Corporation, Inc.

  • Habitat for Humanity of North Idaho

The ceremony will be a celebration of the commitment and dedication of these individuals in the pursuit of home ownership. It will feature Dana, Listman and Hill and their respective lending institutions, several North Idaho mayors—Coeur d’Alene’s Sandi Bloem, Hayden’s Ron McIntyre and Post Falls’ Clay Larkin—and Kootenai County Commissioner Ronald Rankin.

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The Idaho Housing and Finance Association, a financial services and housing organization, provides funding for affordable housing in Idaho communities where they are most needed and when it is economically feasible. IHFA uses no state funds or state employees to support its operations. For more information, visit our Web site at www.ihfa.org.