Our Community of Partners: A Close up look at WeHOPE & indieDwell

Com·mu·ni·ty
/noun/

A feeling of fellowship with others, as a result of sharing common attitudes, interests, and goals.

One of the key pillars of our work at United Hope Builders is rooted deeply in community.

We need community when we fall on hard times.
We need community to help us back on our feet.
We need community to be the shoulder that we lean on.
We need community to help put down roots.
We need community for a house to be a home.
We need community to instill hope into our lives.
We need community to end the homelessness crisis.

When it comes to changing the world by eradicating homelessness, we know that the only way to do this is by linking arms with our community and moving forward as a united front.

In our community we have a few key partners that are doing the work to provide innovative housing solutions right alongside us. We want to shine a light on our incredible partners and how we work hand in hand with them, as a community, to end homelessness together.

WeHOPE

An important partner to the work we do is our sister organization, WeHOPE. They are near and dear to us at United Hope Builders as WeHOPE was co-founded in 1999 by our UHB founders, Pastor Paul and Cheryl Bains. WeHOPE is also tackling the homeless crisis head on and aims to help people become healthy, employed and housed using innovative solutions. WeHOPE offers mobile homeless services, emergency food and shelter, and job training and life skills. They’ve served over 1 million meals in the WeHOPE shelters, directed over $22 million into communities of color and supported over 6,500 marginalized people with the WeHOPE delivery services.

To complement the short-term solutions that WeHOPE provides for those in need, the idea of United Hope Builders was born to create long-term affordable housing solutions through modular homes.

To learn more about WeHOPE visit their website.

IndieDwell

Our next, and equally important partner that we are spotlighting, is indieDwell.

indieDwell is revolutionizing the building industry by producing dwellings that better occupant health and well-being, improve the health of the environment and empower community. They offer affordable, modular housing solutions.

We’ve teamed up with indieDwell to build a factory, indieDwell California in the East Palo Alto area to create modular steel homes for people who need affordable, sustainable, and energy-efficient housing. Through the factory, we aim to employ more than 100 marginalized workers and give them ownership to share in our success. The factory will create more than 400 modular housing units each year, which will directly impact the homelessness crisis in the Bay area.

We’re truly excited about the partnership we have with indieDwell and how together our work will create homes for those in need.

To learn more about indieDwell, please visit their website.

Why Partnership Matters

Through partnerships, we build communities of hope. While business partnerships might be formal agreements on paper, we believe that coming together in partnerships with other organizations is how community is created and sustained. Partnerships are the essential ingredient to community and community is key to moving forward with our mission to end homelessness.

What an exciting time it is to be in partnership within the scope of ending homelessness. We’re not simply talking a big game and only providing short-term remedies to bandage the underlying issue, here at UHB we have a long term solution to heal the root of the problem - and that is making affordable housing accessible to all. Together, as a community, we will prevail and hope will shine brighter than ever before.

First stop is to heal California of homelessness, next – the world.