Operation Reconstruct is a free work-readiness and pre-apprenticeship certificate training (PACT) program developed by Home Builders Institute (HBI) and The Paxen Group. Program participants will receive classroom and worksite instruction and training in employability and life skills, worksite safety and proper tool use, basic residential carpentry, electrical, and plumbing, and construction math. Find out more in the Job Training Section at LouisianaREBUILDS.info.
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The chairman of the U.S.'s largest bookseller, New Orleans officials and other recovery leaders participated in a ceremonial groundbreaking for a $20 million housing initiative. Barnes & Noble Chairman Leonard Riggio is funding the expansive project to build new houses for residents displaced by the storm 2 1/2 years ago, focusing on the Gentilly neighborhood."Project Home Again," a plan to build 20 new, elevated houses for lower-income families, is believed to be the largest single philanthropic project in the city since Hurricane Katrina. Under the plan, Gentilly residents who lived in the racially diverse, mixed-income neighborhood at least two years before Katrina and who still own property there would swap their uninhabitable, storm-damaged homes or empty lots for new houses. Those families then would get forgivable mortgages, over five years, before owning the new houses outright.
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BATON ROUGE, La. (February 8, 2008) – The Louisiana Recovery Authority (LRA) and the Office of Community Development recently published an action plan amendment for public comment, which provides details on the approval process of parish governments' disposition plans for Road Home-acquired properties through the Louisiana Land Trust.When homeowners select Option 2 or Option 3 through the state's Road Home program, their properties are sold to the Louisiana Land Trust, which is responsible for maintaining the properties until they are transferred to the parishes for redevelopment. In order to receive these properties, parishes must submit a disposition plan to the state for approval.
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