Habitat for Humanity sets housing goal

Steve Thomas, Emmy Award-winning television personality and former host of the home improvement shows, This Old House and Renovation Nation speaks during a Habitat for Humanity luncheon at the Bethlehem Center in Alton Park to promote a home building blitz in the Southside where builders will renovate three homes.

Some 1.6 billion people in the world live in slum housing without running water, with leaking sewers or faulty wiring.

Others live in tents, and its not just somewhere else. It happens in America, said Steve Thomas.

You cant run a world this way. Its going to blow up. So you have got to do something, said Thomas.

The Emmy Award-winning television personality and former host of the home improvement shows This Old House and Renovation Nation was the star of Habitat for Humanitys Home Builders Blitz 2014 celebration Wednesday at the Bethlehem Center.

Thomas said he got involved with Habitat after traveling the world and seeing people live in substandard housing.

Nearly 200 people including contractors, professional home builders and developers met at the Bethlehem Center to share a barbecue lunch and celebrate their combined efforts to build two homes and renovate another in Chattanoogas Southside neighborhood.

Some donated time, while others gave gutters, building material, money or T-shirts.

They are a part of Habitat for Humanitys home builders blitz, a nationwide effort to build more than 250 homes in five days this week.

Thank you for making dreams come true, said Tom Gipson, who founded Habitat for Humanitys Home Builders Blitz.

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Habitat for Humanity sets housing goal