In 2001, Home Builders Care Foundation undertook the ARC's University Park House as a major project. Located at the intersection of Route 1 and East-West Highway, the home is over 70 years old and was in need
of extensive repairs. The home serves as a group house
for four mentally handicapped men and their live-in counselor. It is one of 34 community living sites
operated by The ARC of Prince George's County.
The home's repair needs
ran the gamut from interior and exterior painting to bathroom
remodeling to carpeting to cement work to roofing. The value of the work to be done was estimated at $100,000.
About half of the cost was expected to be covered by in-kind
donations of goods and services from the nearly 700 members
of the MNCBIA. In addition, the Home Builders Care Foundation had pledged to contribute up to $25,000 in cash to help meet expenses incurred in the project. However, thanks largely to in-kind contributions by MNCBIA members, out-of-pocket expenses for the ARC project amounted to just over the $15,000 mark. Work commenced on the project just after Thanksgiving 2001 and was completed in the early fall of 2002.
The program at The ARC of Prince George's County was brought
to the attention of HBCF by Richard Boales of Pritzker Realty.
The ARC was established as a non-profit, tax-exempt organization
in 1952, and it provides vocational, residential, medical day care, transportation, family and community services, and a thrift store in support of developmentally disabled persons and their families.
A 501 (c) (3) Non-Profit Community Outreach
Program affiliated with the Maryland
National-Capital Building Industry Association.
We are pledged to the letter and spirit
of U.S. policy for the achievement of equal housing opportunity
throughout the Nation. We encourage and support an affirmative
advertising and marketing program in which there are no barriers
to obtaining housing because of race, color, religion, sex,
handicap, familial status, or national origin.
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