Houston Habitat, city leaders honor Jimmy Carter and highlight his work on affordable housing

Houston Habitat for Humanity and city leaders held a remembrance event Jan. 7 at the Barbara Bush Literacy Plaza to honor former President Jimmy Carter’s long association with Habitat for Humanity and to highlight his role in expanding access to affordable housing.

At the event, Lisonbee Hay, chief executive officer of Houston Habitat for Humanity, described Carter and his wife Rosalynn Carter’s decades of work with Habitat and invited the public to add messages to a commemorative stud wall on display through Thursday, Jan. 9. Hay said the organization will livestream Carter’s funeral on the plaza’s digital screen on Jan. 9 and will collect the signed studs for use in a Habitat home later this year. “This door behind me symbolizes the many doors literally and figuratively that President Carter helped to open,” Hay said.

The pr…