9 October 2023
Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood, husband-and-wife grandmasters of country music, are coming to St. Paul to build affordable housing.
Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity, a nonprofit homebuilder and home lender based in St. Paul, will host the Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter Work Project in the fall of 2024 with a construction project at The Heights, the new development taking shape in the former Hillcrest Golf Course on the city’s East Side.
The annual Carter Work Project event has landed in different cities annually for the past 40 years, celebrating the charitable homebuilding works of President Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalynn Carter. As the Carters have retired from public life, Brooks and Yearwood have agreed to continue the Carters’ legacy as event hosts.
The celebration, which brings together thousands of volunteers, celebrities and elected officials, has traveled to 14 countries. It last came to the Twin Cities in 2010.
Twin Cities Habitat plans to build up to 150 homes in five years at The Heights, which would be the nonprofit’s largest development to date. The broader development is expected to span more than 1,000 market-rate and affordable housing units, 1,000 jobs and a pedestrian-friendly new community.
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