New Texas Grow Home website launched

11/27/2009

Visit the new website to learn all about the project.

Visit: www.texasgrowhome.org.


Virtual open house website coming Friday, Nov 20

11/16/2009

Beginning Friday, Nov 20 this blog will be transformed into a comprehensive web site about the Texas Grow Home Project, complete with virtual open house tours of the completed Texas Grow Homes.


We will build in Port Arthur, Texas

06/07/2008

We have selected Port Arthur, Texas as a location for building the prototype homes For the Texas Grow Home project. The city, located at the southeastern most part of Texas right on the Gulf of Mexico, was near Ground Zero for Hurricane Rita. Read the rest of this entry »


Bringing folks up to date

06/06/2008

On January 8 thirteen judges assembled at the Texas Capitol to review 83 designs submitted by teams of architects from across Texas. The judges included people whose homes were destroyed by hurricane Rita, the mayor of Port Arthur, some of the most prominent Texas architects and national experts in affordable housing design. The judges picked four winning designs. Read the rest of this entry »


An open invitation to give us a hand

06/06/2008

I woke up this morning and realized that we needed help.

It is not that I think we are not managing this project well but the need to get this right, the design of the houses, the fabrication approaches, the design of the program to meet the needs of really poor families all demand that we have some more folks joining us to make sure we have though through the best solutions. Read the rest of this entry »


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