Building Community

Local People Making A Difference

Operation Coming Home wins Best Community Project in the State, Best Community Spirit in the Region, and Best Community Spirit in the Nation.

The Home Builders Association of Raleigh-Wake County joined forces with the Triangle Real Estate and Construction Veterans and the Armed Forces Foundation to create a Military Veterans Task Force.
The Mission was to aid a local military service member and his or her family who was recently wounded in combat by helping the family live the American Dream of owning their own home. In 2008, Royal Oaks Building Group, Atreus Homes, and Gaines and Company built a new home for SGT Joey Bozik, a wounded soldier of the 16th Military Police, who was injured in Iraq. The purpose of this project was to provide SGT Bozik with a home that was custom built to his precise needs and to better his quality of life. It was equipped with zero threshold floors, wider doorways, custom shower, special ramps, sprinkler system, and a custom kitchen with appliances set to accommodate someone in a wheelchair to name a few. On Tuesday, January 19, 2010 the Operation Coming Home Team will accept the award for Best Community Spirit in the Nation at the National Association of Homebuilder’s “National Award” ceremony in Las Vegas, Nevada.

$11,261 Scholarship Money Raised by the Homebuilders Association of Durham, Orange & Chatham Counties

Forty-eight HBADOC members donated items for an auction held at Hope Valley Country Club on November 17th. One hundred people attended the event and twenty-nine people bid both on silent auction items and on items sold during a live auction at the end of the evening. Because of these generous individuals $11,261 was raised for the HBA-DOC Scholarship Fund. HBADOC has awarded more than $120,000 in scholarships since beginning the program – including 18 in 2009. Each year the HBA awards $1,000 scholarships to students who are seeking to further their education in a wide variety of fields ranging from community college through elite four year institutions. The scholarships from this year’s November auction will be presented in April of 2010. Applications for the scholarships are available from HBADOC beginning in mid-January.