Press Release
GIVE A BETTER LIFE: Rebuilding Together San Francisco creates a better way to give gifts this holiday season.
San Francisco, CA – November 5, 2009 – In response to national statistics on the increasing number of low-income homeowners, RTSF has announced their Give A Better Life Campaign, which encourages businesses, co-workers, friends and families to give Better Life Gift Certificates this year. RTSF is offering these unique gift certificates to provide safety modifications for low-income San Franciscans.
There are 24-million low-income homeowners in America. That number is predicted to grow to an astonishing 28.5 million by 2010. More and more families are placed in the position of choosing between vital necessities over essential home repairs and modifications. In San Francisco, 32% of seniors are living below poverty level in own their own homes, and many of these homes were built before there were any accessibility requirements or universal design.
Rebuilding Together believes the disabled and elderly should be allowed to remain in their own homes whenever possible. We believe that homeowners displaced by natural disaster will get back into safe housing with help from the community. We believe that our nation’s veterans who return with disabilities deserve a helping hand so they may return to their own homes in basic comfort. Give A Better Life gift certificates will directly fund home repairs and are available in denominations that include $1000 to patch a leaky roof; $500 to repair broken front stairs; $75 to secure home handrails and $35 to install bathtub grab bars.
In 2009, Rebuilding Together San Francisco provided home safety modifications to 148 San Francisco households, preventing dangerous falls at home. Volunteers met homeowners like 89-year-old Albert Quance, who said last year, “You gave me another 10 years of my life. Come back when I’m 100!”
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| About Rebuilding Together San Francisco Rebuilding Together San Francisco (RTSF) evolved out of a grassroots collaboration of several business, labor, and community organizations in 1989 in response to the Loma Prieta earthquake. Over the last 20 years, RTSF has renovated more than 1,250 homes and 250 community and nonprofit facilities in San Francisco with the help of over 45,000 volunteers, affecting tens of thousands of our city's residents--from residents of Single Room Occupancy hotels to nonprofit employees and clients, from Head Start children to seniors--including all those who volunteered their time to help their neighbors. Rebuilding Together San Francisco is a local affiliate of Rebuilding Together, a national organization that mobilizes thousands of volunteers each year and includes 205 affiliates serving more than 500 communities nationwide. For more information on Rebuilding Together San Francisco, please visit: www.rebuildingtogethersf.org. |
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