'From the Ground Up'
June 26, 2008 -- Housing program offers families a chance to build their own home. [More]

Affordable Housing Boost
March 28, 2008 -- With construction crews busily laying the groundwork for the Inwood II Subdivision, Wells Fargo delivered an added financial boost to the Community Development Corporation of Brownsville and the affordable housing project. Jerry Romero, community development director for Wells Fargo, gave the nonprofit a check for $300,000 for its housing projects Thursday afternoon. [More]

Alternative Spring Break taken by UTB students *VIDEO*
March 13, 2008 -- Most college students spend their Spring Breaks, partying at the beach, but a group of college kids are doing something different, their giving back to the community. [More]

Alternative Island
March 12, 2008 -- Community-minded students at the University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College are finding out that one act can make a difference. [More]

Brownsville organization looking to build more homes again *VIDEO*
March 12, 2008 -- Fewer lower income homes are being built in the city of Brownsville. City leaders and the Community Development Corporation of Brownsville want to do something about it. [More]

Homeowners at risk of foreclosures
Sept. 14, 2007 -- Don Currie used to see no more than two people a month walk through his doors, seeking advice on how to handle the pending foreclosure of their home... [More]

CDCB Awarded $300,000 grant
Sept. 14, 2007 -- The Community Development Corporation of Brownsville has received a $300,000 grant from the Department of Housing and Urban Development Rural Housing and Economic Development Program to provide 10 families long-term mortgage financing.... [More]

Community progress; Volunteers join to build homes for needy
Apr. 20, 2007 -- Dania Mendoza has learned to rely on her neighbors. Without the help of people like Maria Isabel Garcia and others, neither she nor her neighbors will get the keys to the homes they’ve been waiting for... [More]

Another kind of party; Students spend Spring Break in group effort to help others
Mar. 13, 2007 -- The whacking sound of a dozen hammers driving nails into plywood echoed through the neighborhood. Student volunteers ankle-deep in mud were fast at work putting up the interior walls of a new home. Sarah Soriano shouted words of encouragement to the students who have traded the beach for a tool belt... [More]

Pharr, Brownsville CDCs get money to help colonia residents
Feb. 3, 2007--Nonprofit housing groups in Pharr and Brownsville have been approved for of a combined $2.9 million in loans to provide housing to people who live in colonias.[More]

*Also, see more information about this story at the Texas Department of Housing website.