Where We Build

Asheville Area Habitat for Humanity (AAHH) builds simple, decent houses with community volunteers in Buncombe County.  We are currently building homes in the Enka Hills subdivision in West Asheville, where we will build 55 homes over the next four years.  Nineteen families now call Enka Hills home (as of January 1, 2008).

For every two houses that AAHH builds locally, we support the cost of one Habitat house in Guatemala.  Last year we funded 8 houses.  

In response to the Katrina disaster, in November 2005 we sent a crew of nine to Slidell, LA.  The volunteers prepared the foundation for a "home in a box" and began to assemble the floors and walls for this new habitat house.  

In 2007 we returned to the Gulf Coast.  Twenty four volunteers and two AAHH staffers helped build a house on the West Bank of New Orleans for Vanessa Holliday (pictured R).  This house was sponsored by local (Asheville) businessmen John Cram and Matt Chambers.  While in New Orleans, we also dedicated a house in the Musicians' Village with Warren Haynes that was made possible with funds from his 2006 Christmas Jam.