HABITAT FOR JUSTICE
Creating workplace skills and affordable housing
CORES now offers the first-of-its-kind Habitat for Justice program that addresses the critical needs of employment, health and housing for justice-involved individuals.
Under careful, professional supervision, justice-involved individuals will renovate abandoned and rundown properties. Participants acquire invaluable job skills in the building trades. As projects are completed, program participants can live in the reconditioned homes while they work on the next property. In the end, the completed houses will become affordable housing for justice-involved individuals and their families.
The justice-involved individuals working on the homes will not only have a place to live, but they also gain experience and develop employable skills that lead to a seamless transition into the building trade industry or other similar jobs.
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On May 31, 2023, Justice Assistance and Rhode Island School of Design, Department of Interior Architecture graduate students presented their conceptual ideas for Habitat for Justice properties. Play the video below to hear from our Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Jonathan Houston, and RISD Leaders about this project’s approach to Design Justice.
In June 2023, Justice Assistance purchased three lots in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. These lots will be transformed and become the inaugural site of the Habitat for Justice program.
For more information on our Partner, Rhode Island School of Design, click this link for their Center for Community Partnerships.