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The stretch of Edes Avenue just east of 105th Avenue in Oakland’s Sobrante Park neighborhood is bleak at best.

Fresh graffiti wind along tall wooden fences, some topped with razor wire. A stone’s throw away is Tyrone Carney Park, a drug-and-violence-plagued patch that the city fenced off after a fatal shooting in 2002.

It seems an unlikely place for a retiring CEO to build a home, but Roger Haughton of Alamo was literally doing just that on Friday as part of a Habitat for Humanity project.

“I got involved 15 years ago and have been hooked ever since,” Haughton said.