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II 2 The Orange County Habitat for Humanity is one of ten North II Carolina affliates and serves Orange County exclusively. Orange County Habitat for Humanity was established in 1984 . It has established a four member Board of Directors, and has five 1 officers as well as eight standing committees (Finance, Contracts and Documents, Building , Publicity, Family Selection, Volunteers, Fund Raising and Site Selection/Landscaping ) . Orange County Habitat is an incorporated , non-profit organization, autonomous 1 from the International Headquarters in Americus, Georgia. The organization is totally responsible for each Habitat project in Orange County, including purchasing , fund raising , disbursements, I legal matters, etc . Orange County Habitat for Humanity .• (hereinafter referred to as "Habitat" ) completed its first home in February 1987 at their recently acquired 72 acre subdivision II known as Chestnut Oaks in Orange County. Addtionally, construction has begun for two more homes in the subdivision. I The self help construction concept used in Orange County Habitat is similiar to all of the Habitat projects. The potential homebuyer must be screened by a Family Screening Committee. The II Committee reviews three major areas : 1 -- Need , 2 - Ability to Pay; and 3 Family Character . Maximum income limits for recipients have been set at $12,000 for a family of one. Maximum income levels increase by $1 ,000 for each additional family II member . Selected homebuyers are required to contribute 100 hours of "sweat-equity" during the design and construction of another Habitat assisted home before their house is started and 600 1 hours for their own home or others after the selected homebuyer ' s unit is started . The balance of labor needed to complete the home is provided by volunteers. The Construction Superintendent Iis provided and compensated by Habitat . The members of Orange County Habitat , after considering the goal of successfully providing affordable and livable housing , I and having been fortunate to have 72 acres of rural land west of Carrboro , have evolved both a system for building these houses more efficiently, and also for establishing strong community Iawareness and participation. The key to building efficiency lies in modularization as a technique for constructing the units. Prefabrication of modular I units has worked in many parts of the world , particularly in the provision of low cost housing . In addition, knowing that North Carolina is a leader in industrialized housing , Habitat began to I look at planning a simple 1 ,000 SF three-bedroom house as a modular system. The proposed criteria for the module units are that they are make from standard off the shelf building materials I and that they be able to be fabricated and installed by persons with a minimum of training and effort . The system that evolved uses an eight (9) foot module and , 1 in fact , a four (4) foot by four (4) foot grid is marked on the poured concrete slab to facilitate erection of these wall panels. The basic rectangular house plan is kept as simple as I possible within this modular grid . This keeps costs down by standardizing of building elements, in particular the prefabricated roof trusses, and by minimizing the amount of II exterior walling . Also , the planning of rooms within a rectangle can often provide larger , more efficient spats than schemes with a more convulted perimeter .