Built America Magazine | South
Housing That Heals Creating safe spaces for those facing homelessness. Built by Builders Powered by Central Florida’s construction community. Hope in Action More than charity — it’s dignity, stability, and second chances.
“When you’ve seen what it means to not have a safe place to sleep, or a clean diaper, you realize this isn’t charity. It’s humanity.” —Annamae Kacsandi Director of Operations HomeAid Orlando
Backed by Central Florida’s building and trade community, they arrive with hard hats and calloused hands, blueprints rolled like declarations. Not to build a new skyline, but to raise something rarer: dignity, belonging, and doors that actually open. If you want to know a city’s soul, don’t look at its skyline. Look at the places where light leaks under a door that doesn’t quite close, where a grocery bag becomes a diaper, where a teenager ages out of foster care into a parking lot.
RUSS BEYMER | EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Then watch who shows up.
HomeAid Orlando shows up. With builder captains, trade partners, and suppliers who know that a hammer can be an act of hope. They build what breaks the cycle. They build the floor that keeps a child off the tile. They build the tiny home that becomes a lifeline. They build the kind of community that refuses to call people “the homeless” and starts calling them neighbors. “It’s personal,” says Annamae Kacsandi, Director of Operations. “When you’ve seen what it means to not have a safe place to sleep, or a clean diaper, you realize this isn’t charity. It’s humanity.”
ANNAMAE KACSANDI | DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS
“ That’s how HomeAid was born, It worked because it let builders do what they do best.”
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