Acts Housing
Buy a Home, Build a Community
The families Acts has helped achieve homeownership have amazing stories! You may read some of them here.
Purchasing a home is no simple feat, even for families with greater financial resources. For large families with no homeownership history and limited financial means, home ownership can seem like an elusive dream.
Through an array of services, Acts annually assists 100 modest income families to become new homeowners in Milwaukee’s central city neighborhoods. The families we serve are racially and ethnically diverse. Some have lived in Milwaukee all their lives, some come from other countries.
We invite you to meet some of the families we have assisted in making the dream of homeownership a reality.
Margarita Chavez and her family made their dream a reality At the core of everything Acts does are the families we serve. Each family’s story is different, and all month long as we celebrate Longest …
Continue Reading about An overheard conversation led Margarita Chavez to Acts Housing →
Teamwork made the Dream Work for the Dismukes Family When Yuselff and Nakeita Dismukes decided they needed to find a home for their growing family, they turned to Acts Housing. And like so many Acts …
Continue Reading about Teamwork made the Dream Work for the Dismukes Family →
We are a proud partner of Bank On of Greater Milwaukee. The goal of Bank On is to ensure that everyone has access to safe and affordable financial products and services, and bank accounts that allow …
Continue Reading about Bank Five Nine- Serving the needs of the Unbanked and Underbanked →
Antonia had always wanted her own place to call home. When her daughter told her about a new non-profit in Beloit that helped people become homeowners, she knew this was her chance! She called the …
Continue Reading about Antonia’s Journey, A Place to Call her Own →
When Ana Trinidad became pregnant with her fourth child, is when her and her husband Jose, began their rehab project with Acts. Understandably, she was nervous about the timing of taking on such a …
Continue Reading about The Trinidad Family- Baby Magdalena’s First Christmas! →
Maria always wanted a big, spacious sun-filled kitchen. She knew she wanted it painted yellow with lots of plants in the window sills to remind her of her native country of Honduras. Her dream kitchen …
Continue Reading about The Hernandez Family- Revitalizing Neighborhoods, One House at a Time. →
We are pledged to the letter and spirit of the U.S. policy for the achievement of equal housing opportunity throughout the nation. We encourage and support an affirmative advertising and marketing program in which there are no barriers to obtaining housing because of race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status, or national origin.
