The nonprofit organization is moving from 111 S. Washington Ave. to 509 N. State St., where it will temporarily share space with EZ Tax Service.
Its former location has been sold, said Tracy Keagle, executive director of Humanity House.
Keagle said she is looking to acquire a larger space to accommodate its ever-expanding list of services.
To help meet that goal, Keagle is looking to sell a house recently donated to the nonprofit by Iolan Cindy Kress.
The house, appraised at approximately $74,000, was owned by her parents, the late Alberta and Jack Jeffery. Residential zoning prevents the nonprofit from using the house for its own purposes.
“Somebody would have to live there,” Keagle said, adding that even then Humanity House could use only 25 percent of the space for its purpose. “That’s not going to work,” she said.
In order for the home to be utilized as a shelter neighbors within a 200-yard radius would have to approve the venture and a full-time employee would have to be hired.
Keagle said she intends to remodel the house as quickly as possible and then put it up for sale.
Proceeds from the sale of the house, along with an anonymous donation of $25,000, will be combined to purchase a permanent building.
