Our Story
The Hope Grows at Home Foundation is a Pennsylvania nonprofit housing developer, established in 2025 to bring safe, quality, affordable homeownership within reach for working households in the Pittsburgh area.
Before there was a foundation, there was a construction company. Over nine years, JL HomeBuilders worked with community development organizations on roughly one hundred single-family home renovations, more than $6,000,000 of investment in Pittsburgh-area communities. House by house, the crew saw the same pattern: a vacant property renovated well does more than shelter one family. It steadies the whole street.
In 2025, founder Justin Livingston established the Hope Grows at Home Foundation to turn that operation toward mission: buying vacant and distressed houses, renovating them to move-in-ready condition, and selling them at or near break-even to families earning 60 to 80% of Area Median Income. JL HomeBuilders continues to back the foundation with funding, operational support, and construction expertise.
That relationship is our biggest practical advantage. Most housing nonprofits have to hire out their construction. Ours is in-house, which means projects move faster, budgets hold, and the quality standard belongs to the same people who set the mission.





















