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 ACORN leader Vanessa Gueringer (in green sweatshirt) stands with ACORN Home Clean-out volunteers in front of her Lower Ninth Ward home. |
Since December 2005, ACORN has been gutting and cleaning homes in low-income neighborhoods as part of our Home Clean-out Program. With the help of nearly 15,000 volunteers and over 400,000 volunteer hours, we have gutted and preserved about 3,000 homes.
We need your help us finish the hundreds of homes on our list!
As the first large-scale renovation activity in lower-income neighborhoods, this initial step of preservation not only has a practical impact – but sends a message that the people of New Orleans are coming home to rebuild. We can't save New Orleans on our own, but we can preserve the homes of many families, and show policymakers that the people of New Orleans will not let our communities be left behind.
Our program will be running for another year or two, until we finish all the homes on our list. We cannot do it without volunteers like yourself!
Read stories from families who have had their home gutted by ACORN
View a short documentary on th program
View GIS map of homes ACORN has gutted from December to April
