Winter | 2024

Construction Update

As the year begins, we have been making significant progress in our Palmdale Veteran Enriched Neighborhood®!

We are another step closer to finishing the next six (6) homes of Phase 4 with framing completed.

In addition to the amazing progress made in Phase 4, foundations for Phase 5 have been poured!

Please click here to help us continue to build the Palmdale community

Thank you to everyone who came out to support our first annual Veterans' Build! We had an amazing turnout with over 150 veterans and supporters in attendance. The Build united veterans and their loved ones in a community effort to build the next 12 homes in our Palmdale neighborhood. The day consisted of rough grading, building concrete pathways and porches, installing straps and tico plates, and painting.

Tear soup books are created by military veterans in a 12-week workshop. The pages go through metaphorical process of creating a soup that holds their grief and loss. Some of the subjects take more than one page for the veterans to process and they use mixed media materials and collage intentionally, so that they can focus on the process of what they are feeling while they are creating the pages of the book.

Time Capsule Workshop

Time capsules are a beautiful and creative way for our families and veterans to come together and honor who they are now and where they want to be. Gifting a small piece of themselves and their family to the community.

The capsules are created with mason jars and buried in an ammo case within the neighborhood. When the neighborhood is complete and all capsules are buried, the neighbors come together to decide on a quote to add to a stone that will sit atop all of their time capsules in the ammo containers. This quote will represent their neighborhood and remind themselves and tell future homeowners to open the capsules in 30 years.

The capsules include several personal elements, everything thoughtfully considered with symbolic meaning. The creation of the jar represents the family or veteran, it is covered with photos, affirmations, and embellishments.

Funder Spotlight

Land of the Free Foundation

The Land of the Free Foundation is committed to celebrating the men and women of the Armed Forces of the United States, past, present and future. The foundation supports programs that help our armed service personnel and their families and will ensure that the commitment of our nation's heroes will never be taken for granted. Among all of the services they provide, each year, the Foundation gives over $1m to veteran-serving organizations through their annual Veteran's Day Golf Classic. For the past two years, Homes 4 Families has been one of the many beneficiaries of this event and are proud to be among one of the many worthy nonprofits supported by this wonderful Foundation!

Women's Empowerment Build 2024

We are excited to announce our annual WE Build will be taking place May 11, 2024! Please join us for this inspiring event and help six veteran families finish their homes as they prepare to move in!

See event details here

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