HomeAid part of upcoming homeless housing project

HomeAid Houston and The Mission of Yahweh announce an upcoming permanent supportive-housing project to help change the lives of homeless women and children in the greater Houston area.

HomeAid Houston has a longstanding relationship with The Mission of Yahweh, having completed a 5,400 sq. ft. dormitory in 2006. HomeAid returns this year with builder captain David Weekley Homes to construct two eight-plex buildings to provide permanent housing for approximately 40 women and children on the campus of The Mission of Yahweh in northwest Houston.

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“The Mission of Yahweh has been providing emergency and transitional shelter for homeless women and children in the Houston area for 62 years,” said Richard H. Hill Jr., Executive Director of The Mission of Yahweh. “This much-awaited project will complete our continuum of care, to provide permanent supportive housing to graduates of our housing program, allowing them to practice the skills they’ve learned, easing their journey into independence while still benefiting from a support system.

“The new housing will help overcome two challenges — free up more space in transitional housing to reduce the number of homeless women we must now turn away and increase the availability of scarce permanent supportive housing in our community.”

The Mission of Yahweh is a faith-based nonprofit providing housing, basic needs, and supportive services to homeless women and women with children for up to two years. Their 12-building campus currently has the capacity to house 125 homeless women and children at any point in time.

The addition of permanent supportive housing will create a housing model of 50% emergency beds, 25% transitional beds and 25% permanent beds.

“At David Weekley Homes, we are dedicated to our purpose of ‘Building Dreams, Enhancing Lives,’” said Brock Eller, David Weekley Homes Area President. “Not only do we want to build homes that delight our customers, but we also want to make a positive impact in the lives of everyone we touch and in all the communities in which we build and live. The Spring Branch area is one that David Weekley Homes has been fortunate to build in for a number of years and we are excited to continue working and serving in this area today alongside Mission of Yahweh.”

HomeAid Houston’s core construction programs facilitate the construction or renovation of homeless shelters utilizing the pro bono construction resources of members of the Greater Houston Builders Association and its trades to save homeless service providers from 45%-100% of construction costs. Since 2003, HomeAid Houston has completed 78 projects which house over 5,000 homeless men, women, and children annually.

For information about the GHBA, visit www.homeaidhouston.org or call 281-970-8970. For more about The Mission of Yahweh, visit www.missionofyahweh.org .