July 2024

Trades

Trades students to build affordable housing T hough the official announcement with details is a few months away, the founder of the Lime Foundation, Letitia Hanke, is excited to be entering into a partnership with Homes 4 the Homeless that will build Sonoma County Juvenile Probation Department and others to help these young people receive training in construction skills. We want to create the scenario where they are ready to turn their lives around and focus on careers in construction. These trained students could end up working to build the housing they might then be able to afford to move into.” Hanke says the process of securing funding for the

affordable housing in a local low-income community. Hanke is chief executive officer of ARS Roofing in Santa Rosa and a fervent supporter of young people who wish to receive training in the construction trades through her foundation’s NextGen Trades Academy [see main article]. “We’ll be running the vocational training portion of this project with our youth,” says Hanke. “We work with the

extensive training is underway, and the low-income housing project is already planned and on the drawing board and the location chosen. She expects to roll out additional information as the project moves forward in the coming months.

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