Beat the Heat

with our partner Reliant Energy

Rebuilding Together partnered with Reliant Energy in an important program that provided a window AC/Heat unit, two box fans and an air purifier to our neighbors suffering through the hot Houston summer. They provided funds for 50 installations in 2021, after helping 30 homeowners in 2020.

We're glad to help our neighbors in need breathe easier in their homes, like Ms Williams in Acres Homes. “It’s extremely important,” Ms. Williams daughter said. “The home will be pretty cool all together.”

Watch our video of one Beat the Heat installation in 2020, Mr. Churchill, a 90-year-old Marine veteran in Fifth Ward. Reliant’s Sidney Evans told us that the dual AC and heating unit is so important because “right now it being so hot and pretty soon it being so cold, we want to be sure that Houstonians that might be vulnerable to using their (gas) stove only to heat their house, take advantage of this opportunity to add a window unit to make everything so safe.” Reducing the use of a gas stove for heat is even more important for Mr. Churchill, who suffers from COPD.