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Special Issue | Volunteers take a professional approach to the rehabilitation of mind, body, spirit, and bank account | Robby Moeller

INTERFAITH HOUSING COALITION

With spotlessly clean hallways, sleek office suites, and smartly dressed employees working on computers, the building appears to house a lucrative real estate or law firm. Helping homeless Dallas-area families for 22 years, the Interfaith Housing Coalition (IHC) has made professionalism a core belief in its biblically inspired rehabilitation program.

"The homeless families that come through our door won't be offered society's table scraps," said executive director Linda Hall, a staff member since IHC opened in 1985: "We don't try and shame a family for the specific event that brought them here." She proudly reminds visitors that everything from office desks to the bed sheets in residents' apartments has been donated, and then speaks of her clients: "It's about the choices they make going forward, and we want to give them the highest quality of living conditions, training, and counseling possible. We want to empower, not enable."