It was something he wasn t jumping at the chance to do again.
That all changed when he heard the story of the Bassuk Center and Homeworks USA in Lawrence, Kansas, from project director Frankie Foster Davis. Homeworks is a pilot project of the Bassuk Center. When she told me the whole story, that changed things a bit, Bookhart said. It really aligned with our mission and what we do in our program. She was in pre-development at that point. Four years later, she got the project going last summer.
The project was to do the framing work on affordable rental housing for youth aging out of foster care. A group of YouthBuild students from Columbia and Kansas City, Kansas, joined forces April 9 to do the work on two of the homes.