Women are the ones wielding the hammers and saws.

As work begins on another habitat for humanity home in Lexington.

It's all part of habitat, revitalized Women Build program.

Women build a mountain, a verb, a movement, and an action, a name and a calling and think about what women build every day careers, businesses, women build, families.

Women build neighborhoods.

Women build schools.

Women build communities.

And here at Lexington Habitat, women build something else that changes lives forever.

Homes.

I'll be moving in with my two amazing children, Keon and Renea, and our little dog, Sasha.

We are mostly excited about having a yard, a safe space to play and a home that is truly yours.

I like to call our build site a sacred ground, because here is a space where people from all walks of life come together.

We don't ask questions.

People are standing side by side.

We don't know your background.

We don't know your beliefs.

We don't know your socioeconomic status.

But everyone is brought together.

For one thing.

To swing a hammer to support someone in our community.

And we've just got to keep, you know, keep on this affordable housing because the prices are going up all over the country, and it's getting harder and harder for folks to afford to buy a home and in some cases, even to rent it.

So we're really happy to be part of this.

I'm just so excited to have stability for my family, for my kids, just to show them the way.

And that is possible.

I just want to highlight you're talking about a process that goes from application to education, going through educational programing, to understanding what it means to be a homeowner and going through educational classes that talk about financial literacy, to talk about being neighbors, putting in 250 hours of sweat equity on this build site at other people's build sites, at our restore.

To get to this point where homeownership is possible and entering into an affordable mortgage.

That's probably one of the biggest myths that we have and we confront so often, is the habitat gives away homes, and that's just not the case.

I'm going to help build up the foundation.

I'm nervous because I didn't know how to put the hard hat on, but that's okay.

We're going to I'm going to work on it.

This has been like a ten year journey, and I'm just so thrilled.

It still seems so surreal.

I've been through so many different programs and it's just like, finally, this is really for me.

Well, congrats to her, habitat points out.

But on average single women pay more for mortgages and receive less favorable lending terms than single men, even when their credit profiles are similar.