Parade of Homes advocates for affordable housing, offering tours of new houses

LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - You may be seeing new neighbors in your neighborhood as Parade of Homes is adding onto the community.

You can also tour these homes helping this organization on their mission to provide better and more affordable housing.

The non-profit Parade of Homes is celebrating 70 years as it showcases 21 brand new homes featuring the latest trends.

It costs $20 to tour the houses with all of that money going to a good cause.

Robert Wood with West Texas Land Guys says tours help the West Texas Builders Association continue to advocate to keep housing affordable as well as working with West Texas Hero Homes.

“We have 8-10,000 people come through some of these houses and they’re looking at furniture, they’re looking at color, ideas to remodel a lot of people just use it for date night,” Wood said. “The mission behind the West Texas Home Builders and the Parade of Homes builders in general is advocacy and trying to keep housing affordable.”

Wood says his favorite part about being involved is seeing the positive impact and opportunities it gives to the community.

“Obviously you’re sitting in a nice $800,000 house and 90% of people could not afford this house,” Wood said. “So what we’re trying to do is to make it where every American and every Texan and every Lubbockite can actually have a home to live in at some point of their life.”

Parade of Homes will continue until June 22.

For for information on the fundraiser or how to buy tickets, click here.