A recently retired Air Force Vet, I volunteer two days a week building with Habitat. The families who are "getting" these homes, aren't "getting" them. They are carefully selected, employed people who have been counseled as to how to manage the mortgage and taxes they will pay along with the "rest of us". They also work hard right along with us volunteers, week after week. Habitat is a hand up...not a handout. And are Vets sometimes selected? You bet.

A recently retired Air Force Vet, I volunteer two days a week building with Habitat. The families who are "getting" these homes, aren't "getting" them. They are carefully selected, employed people who have been counseled as to how to manage the mortgage and taxes they will pay along with the "rest of us". They also work hard right along with us volunteers, week after week. Habitat is a hand up...not a handout. And are Vets sometimes selected? You bet.

Clearly most of the commentators have no clue how the Habitat for Humanity works. They do not give things away to a bunch of freeloaders. They have several requirements that must be met for a family to even be eligible for home in addition to maintainting the home once it's finished. Please be completely informed before making assumptions about the mission of a wonderful organization. Secondly, we should be grateful that we, as a country, can provide a safe haven and a new life for those that have been terrorized and virtually stripped of everything in their home country. I feel like it's un-American to be so egocentric and expect that each country needs to figure out all their problems on there own. The world would be a different place if everyone was willing to reach out a helping hand to those that less fortunate regardless of class, race, origin, etc. As far as I'm concerned, the Kollie family is just as American as any of us - they have permanent residence in the states, they work and are involved in their community, and they are extremely grateful to be able to call America home.

All the foreclosures and people already US citizens out of work and homeless and we give a house to someone not from the USA? And they wonder why people dont give to charities anymore. Go back to your own country we have enough problems!!!

I often wonder about our vets seeing this crap and most of them having a hard time paying house payments and other bills.

boredatwork-well said.

yea, I was being sarcastic. I think habitat for humanity is a joke. Lets go to a high crime area and find some people, who put themselves in a bad situation, and GIVE them a home. Then they want to say they are living the american dream. BS. The american dream should be. Get married, when you can afford to raise children, have some, WORK HARD, save YOUR MONEY, buy your own house and be a functioning part of your society. Screw habitat, build appts and let them live there. Or better yet just the money for new jails. What are we teaching our children? Do what ever you want, have babies whenever you want, live off the state and some bleeding heart will give you food, medical care, and a house to live in. What a great lesson. Now were giving homes to refugee families while unemployment it waaay up and good americans are loosing the homes and lives they WORKED so hard to earn. Habitat if you guys had any brains you would build the rest of these homes in nicer areas and give them to war vets. They are the only people who truly deserve them.

Glad that a family got a nice place to live, but Habitats for Humanity should build for those living in homeless shelters with children first. Or maybe build another homeless shelter so more could be off the streets. Charity always begins at home. Unfortunately, the US Government forgets that.

I don't mean to sound like a Scrooge, but wouldn't it be better to give back to the community by building houses for American citizens? Refugees from other countries aren't the only people looking for a place to live.

Like to have seen a American Vet get one maybe someone that should've one!!