As a tenant on Mt. Pleasant Street, NW, Mian Shafi enjoyed all of the amenities the Mt. Pleasant neighborhood had to offer; he worked, lived, and played in this community. In 2002, he traveled to his homeland of Pakistan to care for his mother who had a stroke and his brother who suffered a heart attack. He had made plans to stay in Pakistan for two months to care for his family, however, less than two weeks into his trip, he received devastating news. The apartment building where he lived in Mt. Pleasant had been destroyed in a fire. Mian left his ailing family and returned to the U.S. to retrieve whatever belongings he could find in the charred building. With no place to call home, Mian bounced around from one friend’s house to another for more than a year. After the fire, the Mt. Pleasant building, where Mian previously lived, was donated to Manna by the owners. Manna successfully completed rehabilitation of the building, and christened it: the Atonatl Condominium. Manna worked with the former tenants of the Atonatl Condominium to help them become homeowners, including Mian, who joined the Homebuyers Club in 2003. After three years in the program, Mian was ready to become a homeowner in the Atonatl Condominium. Through all the hardships he has faced, Mian has always carried a positive attitude. “There were so many people at Manna who helped me become a homeowner, I had no reason to be upset.”- Mian Shafi, homeowner at the Atonatl Condominium.
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