A 'Build-Blitz' for Single Moms

HomeAid, the country's leading nonprofit developer of transitional housing, and Beazer Homes USA, one of the nation's leading homebuilders, are wrapping up a five-day blitz build of the New Orleans Family Center during Aug. 25-29 to provide housing for single mothers and their children who are still homeless a year after Hurricane Katrina. Tulane University, under the direction of architecture professor Stephen Verderber, initiated and developed the architectural design of the project, including incorporating sustainable and green design elements that were conceived through a design/build class at the Tulane School of Architecture.

The 4,400-square-foot Family Center, located on the site of the historic New Orleans Mission, is being built by HomeAid's Gulf Coast Rebuilding Fund, which was created in partnership with Ameriquest Mortgage and its affiliates, Argent Mortgage and AMC Mortgage Services.

"The addition of a national homebuilder like Beazer to this partnership underscores the enormous significance of this sustainable build project in the city's overall rebuilding effort," Verderber says. "The Family Center's green design will set the benchmark for smart rebuilding."

from Tulane Daily News