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Challenge House purchases homes in the center of local neighborhoods with exceptionally high crime and poverty rates. An ambassador moves into the home purchased by Challenge House and is responsible for tending to the needs of their neighborhood. They currently have six properties.
Littlefield said although the common perception in Hopkinsville is that he lives in a dangerous neighborhood, he doesn’t see it that way.
“I m out in the neighborhood. At least once a day, I try to walk through the neighborhood,” Littlefield said. “Guys that I know ask me, ‘What do you mean, walking over there?’ I tell them I walk in this neighborhood 24/7, and I m not concerned. I’m not worried, because they know that my motives are pure and that I don t want anything.”