What's Happening with CVHC

The Lemus family, from left Adriana, Leonel, Angela, Jesus and Josue (not pictured) are part of 205 families that have new homes at the Jardines housing development in Coachella. The houses were part of the Coachella Valley Housing Coalition new 205 homes.(Photo: J. Omar Ornelas/ The Desert Sun)Buy Photo Leonel… [...]

More than 400 orange-clad Home Depot employees laid sod, planted succulents and painted walls in 21 Coachella homes Wednesday as part of a volunteer partnership with a local nonprofit. The single-family houses in Coachella’s Bellissima subdivision have so far been built by the families that will move into them. The… [...]

For most students, spring break is a much-deserved chance to do anything but work. But in Desert Hot Springs this week, about 30 students from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, are spending their spring breaks installing solar panels at three low-income homes. They’re working with GRID Alternatives, a nonprofit that… [...]

Apolinar Polanco and his wife, Maria, have received what may be the best possible Christmas present: a home of their own. They took ownership of the new three-bedroom, two-bath house in Coachella earlier this month. “It’s achieving the American dream,” Polanco said in Spanish, speaking through a translator. It’s not… [...]

Esteban Gutierrez immigrated from Guanajuato, Mexico as an 18-year-old immigrant. After 32 years of laboring in the Coachella Valley he will finally reached his “American Dream” of owning a home with the help of the Coachella Valley Housing Coalition. In this photo, Esteban, second from left, stand with part of… [...]