Twenty Volunteers From a Veterans Law Firm Spent Saturday Building a Houston Habitat Home for a Veteran Family
Twenty employees of CCK Law - a firm that practices veterans law, with many veterans on its own team - worked alongside veteran volunteers on Saturday at 9011 Robins Egg Trail, on a Houston Habitat for Humanity Veterans Build home whose sponsorship is one of the largest the program has ever received.
Saturday's work crew on Robins Egg Trail was not a construction company. Twenty employees of Chisholm Chisholm & Kilpatrick - CCK Law, a national firm whose practice includes veterans law - volunteered with Houston Habitat for Humanity on November 7, working alongside veteran volunteers to help build a Habitat home at 9011 Robins Egg Trail in Houston. The firm's sponsorship of the build is one of the largest contributions Houston Habitat has ever received for its Veteran Build program, the organizations said in a release published Monday.
The Veteran Build program brings together community partners, volunteers and veterans to support affordable homeownership for local families who have served. Houston Habitat will continue construction of the Robins Egg Trail home through completion before handing the keys over to the family - who are not named in the release, and are not named here. 'CCK Law and Houston Habitat for Humanity share something fundamental: a belief that veterans deserve more than gratitude,' said Christine Clemens, a partner at the firm and vice-chair of the State Bar of Texas Military and Veterans Law Section. 'Habitat turns that belief into housing. We turn it into advocacy.' Allison Hay, Houston Habitat's CEO, said the organization appreciates the firm's commitment and looks forward to welcoming the future homeowners once construction is complete.
Both organizations come to the partnership with Houston records. CCK Law, which has offices in Houston and San Antonio among its five cities, says it has recovered more than $1 billion in benefits for disabled veterans since 1999, and that many members of its team are veterans or have family ties to the military community. Houston Habitat for Humanity, founded in 1987, has built more than 1,200 homes in 15 Houston neighborhoods - among them Fifth Ward, Clinton Park, Settegast, Central Southwest and Third Ward - and has repaired more than 900 homes since Hurricane Harvey.
The build fell four days before Veterans Day, which Houston marks Wednesday with the city's annual Houston Salutes American Heroes celebration downtown. This one was quieter: twenty volunteers, a wood frame, and a house that will belong to a family who served. The keys change hands when the work is done.
