One of Houser's closest neighbors, the man who runs his small business, says, "It used to be just me and my wife. Now we're running our own company and trying to make it as a family business."
He has some ideas for how to get some more people with the same idea in his own community. At least 20 young African-Americans who live around the corner from Houser's home have registered to be a sponsor family.
"These folks can really build things that are going to allow this place to be more inclusive, not just for those who are from within the area, but for people who don't get a chance to do that," said Kevin Gentry, executive secretary-treasurer for the South Carolina Alliance of Neighborhood Health Pembroke Pines.
What Houser sees as the next frontier, for him, is having "socially engaged kids who don't care about the race thing."
A similar path is at work elsewhere, such as the nonprofit community of East Hampton, N.