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o help address the nations growing need for affordable housing for vulnerable populations, Volumetric Building Companies (VBC), has established the VBC Giving Foundation, a new nonprofit dedicated to providing high- quality, respectfully designed, sustainable modular housing for veterans, working families, special needs adults, seniors and other. The new Foundation also announced its first project - a 47-unit permanent housing community for veterans in Northeast Philadelphias Frankford neighborhood. The project is slated for early 2022 completion. Dubbed The Bernard Spain Veterans Village Campus, the $6 million, four-story studio, one-two-and-three -bedroom community will serve as a prototype for future VBC Giving Foundation projects. All the Foundation's projects will be powered by VBCs robust national coalition of modular manufacturing companies, raw and finished materials suppliers, developers and real estate experts. Moreover, they will be the product of VBCs Volumetrix building system - a totally
Modular Builder VBC Creates Affordable Housing for Veterans
vertically integrated modular construction process. Under the auspices of the Foundations socially conscious investment platform, VBC will design, engineer, manufacture and construct all VBC Giving Foundation communities. It has been a long-held dream to use our modular building expertise and resources to give back to the communities which have supported VBC. The VBC Giving Foundation makes that dream a reality and, now, with the help of our incredible donors and partners, the Foundations irst project is on the path to providing much needed housing for some of the nations heroes, stated Vaughan Buckley, president of VBC. The $1 million seed equity necessary to bring the Veterans Village project to fruition was donated to the VBC Giving Foundation by the Joan and Bernard Spain Family foundation. My late husband, Bernard, an Army Veteran, always thought that veterans were not treated as well as they should be in terms of housing, healthcare and other benefits. The Joan and Bernard Spain Family Foundation is sponsoring the Veterans Village project to ensure our heroes live in safe, respectable, resilient apartments. I believe this will be a template across the country to build housing that our Veterans deserve. stated Joan Spain, trustee of the Bernard and Joan Spain Family Foundation. The VBC Giving Foundation also partnered with VBC vendors, suppliers and other modular purveyors to make contributions to the project. Notably Saint- Gobain/CertainTeed, which donated siding, insulation and grant funding totaling more than $175,000 and DalTile, whose discounted materials saved the project $10,000. For more information about the VBC Giving Foundation and its first project, visit vbcgivingfoundation.org.
About Volumetric Building Companies (VBC) Founded as Vaughan Buckley Construction in 2009, and transitioned to Volumetric Building Companies in 2019, VBC is the largest and most experienced multifamily modular housing company in the industry. Its unique proprietary and vertically integrated process, Volumetrix, combines architecture and engineering, logistics, manufacturing and construction in a single package. For more information, visit vbc.co.
Source: Volumetric Building Companies
Veterans are
30%
more likely to suffer homelessness than any other demographic.
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