About Austin Pride Build

The Austin GLBT Community is working together to raise the funds and labor to construct an Austin Habitat for Humanity home this fall. The house will become the new home of a local grandmother who will purchase the house with a zero-interest Habitat mortgage loan. A coalition of GLBT and allied organizations is forming to raise the funds and the labor to construct an Austin Habitat for Humanity home in a new subdivision in the Montopolis neighborhood.

This coalition decided to take on this project as a way of allowing the GLBT and allied communities to join forces and work together on a nonpartisan project that is a major issue in our community. Affordable housing affects us all and continues to be a growing concern for all of Central Texas. The Pride Build project is a way for GLBT and straight people to work together, learn from one another, and help shed light on the affordable housing needs of our community.

"Austin Habitat is proud to be working with the GLBT community in this partnership to address one of the biggest needs facing all Austinites today; affordable housing. Austin is so diverse in its people and cultures, but we all share the need for shelter," said Michael Willard, AHFH Executive Director.

"Austin is such a great place to live because its people have such big hearts and wide open arms. It is because of this spirit that the GLBT community has thrived in Austin in such a unique and inclusive way. We reach our highest potential when we give back to those in need, and show that we are here to make the entire community a better place for everyone. We hope you will join us in the 2007 Pride Build - and celebrate together the power to change the world around us," said David C. Smith, Founder of the Hill Country Ride for AIDS and coalition member.