Help bring St. John residents home.

With the 2019 Atlantic Hurricane Season is upon us, returning vulnerable residents to stable and safe homes is more important than ever. There are dozens and dozens of residents on St. John alone who are still living under blue tarp roofs.

Our Resilient Housing Initiative (RHI) was designed to fill this gap; all of the homes that we are rebuilding are the primary residences of permanent St. John residents who are all seniors, families with small children, or persons with a disability or nonemergency medical need. In most cases these are total rebuilds from the ground up, and the residents have been deemed ineligible for other federal and local assistance programs.

With your help, we are pleased to announce that we have completed 27 homes since September 2018, which is an additional 5 homes since our last report in August of this year!

For RHI, Love City Strong pays 3 licensed, St. John-based construction companies for the builds, and multiple St. John businesses are utilized for deliveries of building materials, painting, plumbing, electrician work, and more. We have always believed that it is important to utilize the professional talent and skills of St. John residents for all of our projects, rather than outsourcing to individuals or companies from outside of the territory. Our clients for this program are selected and vetted by the St. John Community Foundation's Disaster Case Managers, all St. John residents with longstanding ties to the community, who work hard every day to identify vulnerable residents in need. When you donate to our RHI program, you are not only helping individuals in need--You are supporting the St. John economy.

Please consider a donation to the RHI program today. Our goal is to complete 40 homes by the end of 2019, and thanks to your support we are closer than ever before!