This is Lee Habib, and this is our American Stories, and we love bringing you stories from all over our great country.

We've been spending some time in Austin, Texas at a place called Community First Village,

a 51-acre master plan community that provides affordable, permanent housing, and a loving community

for men and women who've spent years, often decades, surviving on the streets of Austin.

Some people focus on the fact that this village has beautiful RVs and gorgeous small homes designed by the finest architects in the nation.

But that's not this place's secret sauce.

No, it's the people who live and work at community first that make it transformative.

To get a sense of that, we'd like you to hear a story from Larry Crawford, the fellow who fixes anything and everything that breaks in this

community, from air conditioners to trucks. Here's Larry. I bought myself a new truck, and I've always

been a kind of the base model truck buying kind of guy, but I'm a little older now, and I have a

little more money, so my wife went shopping with me and she's like oh I love this leather

so what ended up perching was the Longhorn Laramie Diesel has all these bells and whistles on it's got things on the dashboard I still don't know how to work

it's four-wheel drive it's got fancy wheels and running boards.

And it's just really a luxury pickup truck.

And because we're in Texas, it's just like a, I don't think it's a written law, but it's

kind of like a law, that when you get a new truck, you've got to go show your buddies.

You know, you've got to go show the guys you work with your new truck.

So I'd had the truck about a week. And so I decided to drive it to work and show it to my buddies. And the end of the

day, my wife called me and she asked me, she's like, hey, can you go to the grocery store

and pick up this one item? And several years years ago I don't remember what it was and

so I'm like yeah I can do that so I leave work and I'm heading down Loyola because there's a

H-EB grocery store at Springdale and 183 so I was heading that way and I saw this homeless guy that I

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