What We Do
Copyright © 2011 Joshua House Fund.
The Joshua House Fund was born in 1997 in an effort to continue a building initiative begun by a local church community. JHF's construction projects have been largely concentrated in one of the poorest regions in the United States, the Appalachian section of Kentucky. JHF provides all the building materials, as well as hiring unemployed local builders to finish the houses when the volunteers return home. Each future homeowner is required to participate in the build, as well as make the most negligible of monthly payments. In the summer of 2000, JHF expanded its home building areas to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. JHF worked in conjunction with the Red Feather Development Group and the University of Washington to build the area's first straw bale home, an innovative approach to utilizing the local environment's natural resources to create affordable housing.
Since Joshua House Fund was formed in 1997, we have built 16 homes for needy families.
