Liverpool Habitat for Humanity has generously been given 2.2 acres of land on Kingsley Road by the Roman Catholic Church and will be building 32 homes with partner families and volunteers over the next 5 years.

LHFH has a comprehensive procedure for selecting families. There are three main criteria for qualification: to have a housing need and already live within the Liverpool City area (that is pay Council Tax to Liverpool City Council); to be willing to partner with LHFH to put 500 hours of "sweat equity" into building on the project and to have an income between £10 - £20k. Applicants who live, work or have a strong connection with the Liverpool 8 postcode area will be preferred.

In the last four weeks we have had an extremely busy period on site as we have recently hosted three large team builds including; Rathbone Brothers PLC, EDF & The House that Echelon Built. During their time on site they have all made an enormous contribution to the progress of Phase 3. The Rathbone group of 14 employees spent their day fixing battens to the exterior of the homes & completed a large portion of the task. The following Monday saw the arrival of twenty one participating French & English EDF employees who remained on site for five consecutive days. Throughout the week the group were engaged in tasks varying from fixing vapour barrier, installing insulation & applying plasterboards to the interior of the phase. When a good humoured spirit of competition monitoring quality control was introduced, each of the three groups stood up to the plate in terms of both production & more importantly, finish. The impetus has continued and the “batten” was passed onto The Echelon build whose efforts further progressed Phase 3 over a three day build. The Echelon group had travelled from all over Europe and during the three days a great rapport was established between LHFH staff, homeowners, regular volunteers & the 16 Echelon girls. In the wake of all this activity regular groups including Rotunda & NWTC have continued to augment staff efforts to maintain progress.