Rebuilding Together fills a pressing need in our communities. The rising cost of living and falling social service budgets have left some of our most vulnerable neighbors without the most basic of necessities, a warm, safe, and dry home.
The nation is facing enormous problems, many of which have reached crisis levels. The low-income homeowners that Rebuilding Together serves are disproportionately affected by these issues. Homeownership is at an all-time high, especially among low to mid-income Americans, but the costs of owning and maintaining a home are growing exponentially. Healthcare costs are skyrocketing, leaving low-income citizens with less and less disposable income for home repairs and modifications.
Rebuilding Together focuses on the issues of home maintenance and homeownership for the elderly, the disabled, and veterans. By identifying the challenges associated with these issues we are well placed to face a problem with full understanding and to create real, sustainable solutions for the low-income homeowners we serve.
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MISSION: REPAIRING HOMES, REVITALIZING COMMUNITIES AND REBUILDING LIVES
VISION: SAFE HOMES AND COMMUNITIES FOR EVERYONE
As a housing nonprofit organization, we assist low-income homeowners – focusing on providing a healthy and safe home. Our focus is assisting low-income seniors, disabled individuals and veterans. During our project, local businesses, community members and concerned residents come together from all walks of life to rehabilitate homes in Solano County. This is accomplished with volunteer skilled and unskilled labor, donated materials/services and financial support from within Solano County.
SOLANO COUNTY IMPACT: 2009 – 2024
Rebuilding Together has provided services in Solano County since June 2009. With more than 12,000 volunteers, RTSC has provided necessary home repairs for 44 low-income veteran / senior / disabled homeowners. Also, RTSC has held more than 52 community facility workdays in Benicia, Fairfield, Rio Vista, Suisun City, Vacaville and Vallejo. In addition, Rebuilding Together has installed and/or donated more than 7,000 smoke and 4,715 carbon monoxide alarms in low-income mobile home parks. Also, RTSC has distributed more than 3,300 Safe at Home Kits. Finally, RTSC has provided a food pantry for low-income veteran / senior / disabled families in Solano County since 2018 with more than 500,000 lbs. of food in the past year as part of Feeding America via the Food Bank of Contra Costa / Solano Counties. In total, Rebuilding Together has invested more than $11,000,000 into revitalizing low-income homes, community facilities and neighborhoods in Solano County.
SOLANO COUNTY IMPACT IN 2024
Home Rehabilitation Program (Low-Income Military Homeowners)
2 Homes for Veteran Widows in Vallejo with Home Depot / Valero / Recology Vallejo / Medic Ambulance / Wells Fargo /
CSAA / Cal Maritime Academy / US Bank / BMO
Smoke / Carbon Monoxide Alarm Installation Program
Vallejo – Mobile Home Estates with Vallejo Fire Department & Travis AFB / Painters Union
Vallejo – Olympia Mobile Home Park with Vallejo Fire Department &Travis AFB / Painters Union
Fairfield – Dover Mobile Home Park with TAFB Fire & Travis AFB
Fairfield – Country Club Estates with TAFB Fire & Travis AFB
SPONSOR: CALLISON FOUNDATION
Safe at Home Kit Program
1,600 Safe at Home Kits distributed in 2024 to Veteran and Military families
Sponsors: Valero / Kaiser Permanente / Bank of America / Wells Fargo / Phillips 66 / Home Depot/ CSAA
Raised Garden Box Program
60 Garden Boxes Constructed / Distributed in 2024 with Valero Benicia Refinery, CSAA and US Bank
Food Pantry Mobile Program
Via Feeding America and local food bank, RTSC volunteers from Valero, Vallejo Community Presbyterian Church, Painter’s Union, Medic Ambulance, Solano Association of Realtors, & Vallejo Veterans Post 550, distributed more than 500,000 lbs of food annually. This program serves 5,000 households each month at 12 mobile sites
National Impact
In the past 25 years, more than 2.5 million Rebuilding Together volunteers
Rehabilitated more than 150,000 homes and several hundred community facilities.
Estimated value of work is more than $1 billion.
REPAIRING HOMES, REVITALIZING COMMUNITIES AND REBUILDING LIVES
