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Construction and building science students at Omaha’s Metropolitan Community College complete a Capstone home project each year as part of their curriculum. After a full academic year of building, this year's completed home was recently broken up and moved in four parts, then pieced back together on North 16th Street, where it will be sold to a local family in need at an affordable price.
To fund and ultimately sell the home, the community college partnered with nonprofit NeighborWorks Home Solutions, which finances the resources and materials for such projects and later goes through the application process for families interested in the homes, KETV NewsWatch 7 reports.
"Fall quarter we frame it, winter quarter we do the roof, side it, put windows in, spring and summer wrap it all up, drywall, and trim work, cabinets," said Drew Henrichs, the faculty member in charge of the project. "Basically get it ready to get it out of the building."
The project each year aims to address affordable housing in North Omaha. Henrichs said the students always take pride in seeing families move into a house they built.
"This is their neighborhood that they grew up in," Henrichs said. "To see it start to be revitalized, it means a lot to them because this is their home."
