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Empowerment in Habitat for Humanity housing: Individual and organizational dynamics

Finn, Cathleen McGhee
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1061574650

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1994, Doctor of Philosophy, Case Western Reserve University, Social Welfare.
This case study of one local Habitat for Humanity program describes the process through which twenty-two low-income families have become home owners in this unique and popular international voluntary program. Specifically, it examines their experiences of empowerment through a participatory research process founded on interviews, organizational records, and other sources of data. It finds that empowerment is bolstered by organizational membership, group support, learning activities and models of empowered activity in the early phases of the process, but is challenged after home ownership takes place and program supports diminish. Two specific types of personal empowerment, static and dynamic, are defined to describe different phases of the process. Models of service, advocacy and empowerment-type voluntarism are applied to Habitat's programmatic relationship to families in various phases of the process of becoming a home owner.
Darlyne Bailey (Advisor)
251 p.
Social Work
Habitat for Humanity housing

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  • Finn, C. M. (1994). Empowerment in Habitat for Humanity housing: Individual and organizational dynamics [Doctoral dissertation, Case Western Reserve University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1061574650

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Finn, Cathleen. Empowerment in Habitat for Humanity housing: Individual and organizational dynamics. 1994. Case Western Reserve University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1061574650.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Finn, Cathleen. "Empowerment in Habitat for Humanity housing: Individual and organizational dynamics." Doctoral dissertation, Case Western Reserve University, 1994. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1061574650

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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