Habitat Homes Raise First Wall

On Saturday, in a vacant lot on Cleo Avenue and next to Highway-85’s sound wall, one of the four houses under construction by got its first wall. Though these four houses are just skeletons now, by December they will be the homes for four Cupertino families.

Years in the making, Cupertino set aside more than $800,000 for the project in 2007, the wall raising ceremony marked the beginning of the end for the project.

“This is the easy part,” said Erin Spaulding, Habitat for Humanity marketing specialist. “The wall raising is the kick-off.”

The Cleo Avenue project is not only the first Habitat for Humanity project in the city, it’s also the first time a city has designed the project. Using Habitat’s architects the city designed the four homes to be energy efficient and to fit within the city’s community.

“We didn’t want the homes to be sub-standard,” Vice Mayor Orrin Mahoney said.

Mahoney added that despite the size, the project is the second largest affordable housing project in the city.

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