YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio - The walls began going up Saturday on a Habitat for Humanity house in the 13-hundred block of Dryden Avenue.

This is Habitat's first new house this year in Mahoning County. It's being built for the Leavell family.

Members of the family were working alongside the 40 volunteers on hand to help raise the walls of the new house. The family has been working hard to meet income and credit guidelines and to complete the 350 hours of sweat equity they need to invest before moving in.