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.
Upon meeting Horacio, it’s evident he’s proud of his home. He frequently displays the home’s progress on his Snapchat. Sitting cozy on Milwaukee north side, he and members of his family (including …
Continue Reading about Dedicated and On Display: Horacio’s Home →
Johnnie Ashley couldn’t believe her ears when she was told she was done paying off her home rehab loan. “It was mindblowing,” she said. “I went and told my church.” Johnnie purchased her home on …
Continue Reading about Johnnie: Monthly Payment to Paid Off →
2018 ACTS Housing Homeowner of the Year Recipient James Reynolds received one of our first-ever Homeowner of the Year awards at our Longest Neighborhood Table event on Aug. 2. Read more about him …
Angel, 37, was the first Acts homebuyer to receive a microloan amount higher than $25,000 for his home rehab project. Since his purchase in February, the boards that protected the vacant property …
Rebecca Johnson says she hasn’t always had the best luck. She would enter drawings for raffle prizes and would come away with no prizes. “I don’t win stuff,” she said. Her luck changed since she began …
In August 2018, Bruce heard about ACTS Housing and called about next steps. "I decided I would attend orientation and see what happens," he said. He purchased a four-bedroom, move-in ready home in …
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.
