Through donations from Interceramic and Laticrete, a local non-profit organization in Texas was able to construct a new home for a group of homeless students.
In 2011, La Buena Vida Youth Leadership Foundation (LBVF), a non-profit organization whose main mission is to improve the lives of North Texas students in need through programs that provide leadership development and higher education opportunities, made its first visit to City House. After observing the setup of the similar non-profit organization that has been housing and assisting at-risk youth in Collin County in Plano, TX, for almost 30 years, LBVF was so inspired that it began its own process to open what is now known as the La Buena Vida House. The new residential youth facility — located in Irving, TX — is designed to house up to 16 homeless high school students between the ages of 17 and 21, who have lost both parents through death, abandonment, abuse or mental illness.
Featuring eight bedrooms, eight bathrooms and three kitchens, the 3,000-square-foot house is the first to be built by LBVF. However, the organization has provided support to homeless youth in other ways for many years, with a purpose to produce young people who are ready to go out and be productive members of society.