Housing Development Alliance

Hey, everyone. We're sorry about the absence of blogs these past few weeks. We just moved into our new office and everything has been a little hectic. We've had boxes to unpack, furniture to settle, appliances to install. The HDA staff is finally beginning to settle into the new building. We have 11 offices and a rather large parking lot. If you haven't visited the new office yet, you really should. It's a beautiful building and we are all very proud of it. We are located at 2871 N. Main Street, right across from the Mother Goose House.

Because of our move, we haven't had much time to discuss the great accomplishments of our volunteers. In June, St. Bartholomew's volunteers helped the community by removing a couple's inadequate bathroom and installing a brand new one. They also helped frame a new house as well as some roof repair. we've had back-to-back groups of volunteers. First Presbyterian Church of Kissimmee, FL spent a week rebuilding a porch and painting interior walls. Beaumont Presbyterian painted, built a ramp, and laid concrete blocks. St. John's Westminster Union Church also helped the community by laying foundation, concreting, roofing, and replacing a porch. (We've had a lot of porch projects this summer.)Pullen Memorial Baptist Church returned to Hazard in July for its fifth consecutive summer! They did everything from framing to painting to flooring. The members even cleared the obtrusive overgrowth surrounding the new office. Crescent Hills Presbyterian framed a new house and replaced an old porch. I saw the porch project from its beginning stages and let me just tell ya, it is such an improvement from the old one. St. Francis de Sales spent the entire week framing a new home. The work looked exhausting (especially in this heat!) but the labor really paid off! The place looks great.

Phew! Is everyone still there? That was quite a dense, albeit incredibly abstract, paragaph. I hate to have had to condense all of our volunteers like that, but like I said, it has been a very busy few weeks for everyone here at HDA. My little shout-outs to all of our volunteer groups, however, does not express our gratitude enough. Every volunteer has done such a great job with this summer's projects. Never before have I seen such a general positive attitude to the, sometimes grueling, work. Southeast Kentucky (as well as a great portion of the country) has had some awfully hot summer days but we haven't received any complaints. In fact, in all my summers working for HDA never have I heard such an overwhelming amount of praise for our carpenters. Great job, everyone!

South Elkhorn Christian Church will be arriving tomorrow and I'll try my hardest to keep you all posted on their progress!

For those of you who would like more information about our previous volunteer groups, I highly recommend glancing through the photos that have been posted on our Facebook page.