Housing
Philip Do, a participant in the Housing Resources of Western Colorado’s Self-Help Homeownership program, describes plans for his backyard on Oct. 3, 2024, at his home in the Butner Estates subdivision in Grand Junction, Colo. The program helps qualified families who otherwise wouldn’t be able to afford house purchases build homes. Photo by Barton Glasser / Special to The Colorado Trust
Philip Do was catching up on some required work hours on a hot Saturday morning in late August at Butner Estates in Grand Junction, where he and seven other people were building their own and one another’s houses.
Do, 34, already had construction skills before joining the project and was further along on his house than his future neighbor Monica Evans. That morning, Do helped Evans with caulking on her house’s exterior. Inside, Evans and two other homebuilders mopped the concrete floor before applying another coat of sealant. Another homebuilder down the street was painting the interior of his future house.
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