Housing Development Alliance

Hello all you Housing Development Alliance friends out there in cyber space!
Well it is my turn this week to do the blog. My name is Tonya Perkins. I am the Administrative Asst & the Accounting Clerk for the organization. My job is to make sure I have payroll done for the hard working carpenters you all love so well. I also do many other things here. I answer the phone, so if you call it is probably me on the other end! My primary job is to assist the Director of Finance so I work with a lot of numbers.

I really like my work here. It’s not every day you can come to a job you love and enjoy. We get to help so many people either with building a new home or just simple things as repairs, getting a porch put on their house or a ramp to help them get their loved ones in their homes.

We are having a group of 17 volunteers come in this week. They are from Westminster Ohio. That is just one of the many places we have had volunteers from this year. We have enjoyed having all of them here to help with home repairs, or help build new homes. All of our volunteers seemed to have enjoyed themselves this year. I would like to say thanks to all of them for coming and helping in our community & to the carpenters for all the hard work they do for us. Thanks guys you are a fun crew to work with.

Recently Pam Short and I went to work related trainings in Philadelphia. We had a great experience. We had never flown before and it was scary at first, but by the time we came back we had adjusted. We were in “Philly” for a week and found the experience very educational. We got a lot of helpful information to use in our jobs. I also managed to return to Hazard with a head full of sutures but I will save that story for my next blog.

We met a lot of new people at the training that do jobs similar to our own, and learned much about other non-profit work in other areas. It was hard for us to leave our families for the week, but we enjoyed the experience and had a good time. But, there is no place like home and I was happy to get back to my family and friends.


Well my blog is finished. I hope you have enjoyed my story telling time. You can always come see us or call, we would be glad to help you with repairs or get you an affordable home if we can. And if you feel the urge to help lives we will always welcome volunteers. Thank you for checking out on our blog. Ya’ll come back and see us now ya hear!