Our Mission and Impact
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Our Mission
Repairing Homes. Revitalizing Communities. Rebuilding Lives.
Our Vision
Safe homes and communities for everyone.
Our History
Robert Mosbacher, Jr.
Rebuilding Together Houston's history began in 1982, as Private Sector Initiative. Houstonian Robert Mosbacher Jr. founded the organization based on his work with the Reagan White House, and specifically the Private Sector Initiatives program, which called on volunteerism to supplement government programs for those in need.
In 2003, Private Sector Initiative became Rebuilding Together Houston, an affiliate of a national network of organizations with the purpose of providing low-income elderly, U.S. Military Veterans, and working families in need with critical home repairs, accessibility modifications, and energy-efficient upgrades at no cost to the homeowner.
Who We Are
For more than 40 years, Rebuilding Together (RT) has been the only organization in our region to provide hundreds of families annually with non-disaster repairs. Our work adds 20 years or more to the life of a home, making the home safer and more resilient against disaster. With more than 14,750 neighbors served, we have averaged one family helped per day for 4 decades.
We enlist community volunteers and licensed contractors to repair the homes of low-income families in need.
Our work improves the safety and structural integrity of homes that are passed from generation to generation. We help to retain the character of Houston neighborhoods by keeping families in communities that they helped to build.
What We Do
Our Impact
From 2019 to 2021, Rebuilding Together partnered with an external evaluator to conduct impact measurement based on desired outcomes of our core practice model, Safe and Healthy Housing. These surveys were conducted across the United States and over 1,000 homes were assessed and 450 homeowners were interviewed, asking them about the changes they experienced since the repairs were made. Impact measurement touched on six domains: Community (inclusion and retention of housing stock), Safety, Physical Health, Mental Health, Economic Security, and Independence.
