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Better Awards Hardworking Family with Home Giveaway and Launches HOPE Grant to Bolster Home Accessibility
The couple received a home to provide a refuge for their family emigrating from Haiti. Through its non-profit affiliate, the Better Opportunity Fund, Better
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[{"type":"text","content":"\nThe couple received a home to provide a refuge for their family emigrating from Haiti. Through its non-profit affiliate, the Better Opportunity Fund, Better will offer the HOPE Grant to help hopeful homebuyers become homeowners.\n\n\n NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nThis year, Better Home & Finance Holding Company (NASDAQ:BETR, BETRW), a leading digital homeownership company, hosted a home giveaway in the US as part of their mission to make homeownership more accessible for hardworking families. Today, Better announced Alex and Naomie Miller from Cleveland, Ohio as the winners of the Better Home Giveaway. Alex and Naomie were selected from a pool of applicants based on the challenges they’ve faced in their homebuying journey and the impact they’ve had on their communities. As the winners of the Better Home Giveaway, Alex, Naomie, and their son Emerson received a home of their choice and welcomed Naomie’s four siblings who were approved to travel to the United States as refugees under a new visa class established in January 2023.\n\n\nNaomie grew up in Haiti, where she shared a single room home with nine family members until she was 17. Alex first traveled to Haiti with a medical relief team in 2010 following the devastating earthquake that rocked the country. He briefly went back to the United States to raise money for an ambulance before returning to Haiti to care for his patients and fight the cholera epidemic. Alex and Naomie met while providing aid at a treatment center, where they fell in love and were married in 2013.\n\n\nDuring the pandemic, the couple worked at a local hospital, with Alex working as a physician’s assistant and Naomie as a Housekeeper in the ICU. During this time of uncertainty, Alex and Naomie hoped to purchase a home to call their own and provide a sense of security for their family, but they were outbid time and time again. They moved back to Alex’s hometown of Cleveland to be closer to family and hopefully find a more affordable housing market but they still struggled to find available open houses and were faced with the same issue of being outbid.\n\n\nNaomie’s dream has always been to bring her family to America. Four of Naomie’s siblings were approved to travel to the United States as refugees under a new visa class established in January 2023. Winning the Better Home Giveaway allowed Alex and Naom...