Our Services

 

Proyecto Azteca believes that housing is a stabilizing force from which a family builds their future.

At the center of Proyecto Azteca's work is its Self-Help New Construction Program. Through the program qualifying families acquire valuable lifelong skills in home construction and financing.

Proyecto Azteca utilizes construction as a tool for change. It builds on the people’s willingness to help themselves by self-help housing; through this experience, people’s dignity and respect are restored in believing that with the proper support they can address their own needs. 

Proyecto Azteca secures mortgage loans to pay off colonia lot purchase balances then families use exclusively their own labor to build quality homes. With the exception of Proyecto Azteca's Lynchburg Estates neighborhood, houses are all built not on the family's lot in the colonia, but at Proyecto Azteca's construction yard in San Juan, TX. After the homes are finished they are moved onto the families' lots in the colonias.

Participating families work at Proyecto Azteca's building site on a daily basis, use house plans developed for Proyecto Azteca by architects, borrow from the tool library, share bulk purchasing of building materials, and, most importantly, assist each other in construction efforts. 

 

In addition, several professional trainers oversee construction, provide safety tips and provide formal homebuilding instruction.

Proyecto Azteca's work also includes:

• Home rehabilitation

• re-construction

• home ownership classes

• an extensive tool lending library