Many in New Orleans still need help rebuilding their homes five years since Hurricane Katrina devastated the region in August 2005, and today a team of 31 volunteers from Illinois—REALTORS®, Illinois Association of REALTORS® leadership and staff—have hammer in hand adding siding and a roof to one such home.

The work is part of the REALTORS® Volunteer Build, a partnership between the National Association of REALTORS®, New Orleans Habitat for Humanity® and Rebuilding Together® New Orleans—to rebuild and restore homes for families in the Crescent City. We hear our Illinois REALTOR® team is one of the largest volunteer groups for this NAR build, and many IAR members have been working on Habitat and other rebuilding projects in the Gulf Coast region since 2006.