After working over a year to help rebuild homes damaged by Hurricane Harvey, we are back in the business of helping deserving families build a new home. Our next new home project will start in January or February 2019.

Hurricane Harvey Recovery

Shortly after Hurricane Harvey hit our area, volunteers from St. Laurence Habitat began to help area homeowners “Muck and gut” their homes.  This is the process of removing flood damaged items, flooring, sheetrock, etc.  and getting the home ready for rebuilding.  We worked with other local agencies and cleaned out 24 homes.
 
As we finished this initial phase of recovery, we realized that many of these homeowners were facing a long period without a place to live.  We decided to postpone our new home building program for 2017-2018 and concentrate our efforts on this critical housing need.  Again, working with various local agencies, we helped hurricane victims find funding and then scheduled the work of rebuilding their homes.  To date, we have helped rebuild 13 homes and we still have a few to work on this Fall before our 2019 new home build starts.