A lifelong Tulsa resident, Dominique has been working in transit as a driver since 2020. After living in apartments since she was 17, she began searching for a home of her own—but quickly found that many homes on the market were far outside her budget.

“It was really discouraging,” she says. “I started thinking I may not be able to do this.”

Then Dominique remembered volunteering with Habitat for Humanity years earlier with her mom. She decided to revisit the program—and discovered a path to homeownership.

Married just a few years ago and now both 23, Demitri and Sydney have outgrown the one-bedroom apartment they share with their energetic border collie-lab mix. With their whole future ahead of them, they dreamed a living in a bigger home with a backyard, and enough room to grow as a family. Seeing this, Demitri’s mother encouraged the couple to start Habitat for Humanity’s Homebuyer Program.