Alvin, the home owner


Alvin's house is almost complete.


Youth Build volunteers are digging the foundation


Alvin's house after Katrina.

A House For Alvin

Community Partners : East Biloxi Coordination Center
Building Partners: Back Bay Mission

Alvin's house was damaged in Katrina, but not destroyed. The renovation design called for removing a small addition and creating a new one. During the first stages of renovation, however, we learned that the amount of work required warranted tearing down the building and beginning anew.

To keep the project on schedule, the City of Biloxi allowed volunteers to build the house using the renovation plans, yielding Alvin's hybrid house: a New Construction Rehab.

 

Plan

 


South Elevation



West Elevation