this is our home of the brave project, which is for veterans.

This was a vacant lot donated to us by Echo Housing.

And we built these three homes, gave them to veterans, but we wanted to incorporate multiple pillars of ours and affordable housing and energy efficiency are two of them.

So we were lucky to be able to incorporate both of them and provide energy efficient homes to our veterans.

There's a lot of issues when it comes to climate change.

There's a lot of issues when it comes to climate change.

And there's a lot of things that cause climate change.

And so I don't and I don't want my foundation to be one of them.

So we try to make things as energy efficient as possible.

Through our weatherization program and the homes that we build, all of them are energy efficient when it comes to appliances, windows, doors, insulation, everything.

So our model is half price housing, If it's $200,000 to build, we sell them for 100 and we provide, energy efficient appliances, a very stable home, and wraparound services.

Once they move in.

So we’ve built globally 24 homes locally, we've built three, and we're building our next one in Boonville.

So JD Sheth received funding from the city of Evansville through ARPA dollars.

We don't actually have a weatherization program.

It's an enhancement to a program that's already existing.

And so we will go in and we will support things like, AC units, furnaces, water heaters, insulation, doors and windows.

Anything that will, will provide, a lower cost to an individual.

As long as it becomes more energy efficient.

Our target population is low to moderate income households.

we remove barriers for weatherization.

So if your roof is leaking, and you need blown insulation in your attic, we'll replace the roof or patch it up so that we can weatherize and we can put, insulation in.

Community one has a mission to transform our city and contribute to the flourishing of its people by helping neighbors love their neighbors.

So sustainablility and restoration is a very important part of Community One’s approach to all of our program areas.

When it comes to our housing, we say affordable and restorative housing.

We have incredible housing partners across our community that do a lot of new builds, which is a very important and necessary part of affordable housing.

Our sweet spot to step into the gap is really to do the restorative approach.

And so we're able to acquire blighted properties.

They're inhabitable, they're unsafe, and completely get those and then rebuild like new.

And so through that, we're able to try to preserve as much as we can of the home so that we don't have to replace everything.

We replace anything that needs, to be safe to move forward.

But we're able to use a lot of what's already there and kind of steward those resources and preserve the historical look of the home too, which is something that many residents have expressed that they like to see in the neighborhood.