Dallas Bar Association's Home Project Builds its 23rd Home

© 2014 The Texas Lawbook.By Dena DeNooyer Stroh and Greg McAllister Special Contributing Writers to The Texas Lawbook Twenty-two Dallas families live in homes built by the Dallas Bar Association’s Home Project through its partnership with Dallas Area Habitat for Humanity. Our donors and volunteers believe that that there is a sense of urgency to support our community and that “we are the people that we’ve been waiting for.” From March through June 2014, the Home Project—led by Dallas attorneys and judges—will build its 23rd home. The build will culminate, as always, with a deserving Dallas family receiving keys to their new home. These homes make a real difference in the lives of the new homeowners. In 2013, the Thomas family received their keys from DBA President Sally Crawford and Past-President Mark Shank to the 22nd home built by the Home Project. The family expressed excitement that the children could now play in a backyard and do homework in a more peaceful setting. They, like other Dallas Habitat families, received their keys only after their hard work; these homes are not gifts. They, like other Habitat homeowners, contributed hundreds of hours of “sweat equity” by building their own homes and…