February 17, 2005

Housing Group Fires Its Founder

By Brennen Jensen

Habitat for Humanity's staff, volunteers divided by departure of charity's leader

For nearly 30 years, Habitat for Humanity has called on people to pick up hammers and help construct homes for the poor. But this month, an ad hoc group of Habitat volunteers calling themselves the Habitat Partners urged home builders to briefly suspend their construction efforts to protest the firing of Habitat's founder and president, Millard Fuller, and his wife, Linda, who was let go from her

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