Client Success Stories

Learning

            Benjamin Franklin once said, “Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.”  Universal Housing Development Corporation’s Self-Help Program is the embodiment of Mr. Franklin’s ideas about learning.  In her own words, Brandy Gibbs stated, “I got to learn a whole bunch of stuff I didn’t know.”  Ms. Gibbs was approved for a USDA Rural Development loan to participate in the Self-Help Program in 2024.  She chose a 2-bedroom, 2-bathroom house plan to build in London, AR on a lot that already had access to water and sewer.  If involvement is the measure of a good student, Ms. Gibbs receives an A+, putting in hundreds of hours of sweat equity into building a home for herself and her daughter.  “I am thankful for my cousin, boyfriend, and daughter who came in and helped,” Gibbs commented.  After years of renting, Ms. Gibbs became a homeowner and started moving on October 1, 2025.