Most reality TV shows love drama and crisis, but one lasting, feel-good audience favorite is Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, which just announced that it’s heading to Houston for its new season. ABC13’s Briana Conner first reported the news.

The beloved surprise home renovation show is in the midst of a reboot and will premiere in 2024 on ABC after a long run on HGTV hosted by charismatic renovator Ty Pennington.

As fans know, EMHE (as its known) producers select a local family and send them away from home for one week. After the family has departed, a team of home professionals and community volunteers work furiously to renovate the family’s home interior, exterior, and even landscaping. Many a tear is shed — onscreen and at home with viewers — when the family returns to find essentially a brand new home, renovated for free.

Those interested in nominating or applying for the show must do so by Monday, October 23 via the show’s official application site.

Why Houston? “The resilience in the city,” Crystal Castaneda, a producer on the show, tells CultureMap. “It’s a city that comes together in times of hardship.” Castaneda, who lives in Houston, says she’s elated that show producers selected Houston, as she witnessed neighbors helping neighbors, reuniting pets with owners, and more crisis intervention during Harvey and the Winter Storm Uri.

“We like to feature families that give back to the community,” Castaneda adds (not hard to find in Houston). She notes that the show favors families that are experiencing major hardship, are in dire need of home repair, have suffered flood damage, are renting but can’t make the financial leap into home ownership, or whose adult working members are “working 12-hour shifts or are single mothers who can’t balance work and the upkeep of a home.”

Though the deadline to apply is October 23, families are in for a wait once they have submitted the application. “They won’t find out if they’ve been selected until day of,” Castaneda reminds.

As for the show reboot, Pennington will be replaced by Clea Shearer and Joanna Teplin, who are best known as the co-founders of the buzzy lifestyle brand The Home Edit and hosts of Netflix’s Get Organized with The Home Edit. EMHE (currently the show’s working title) is produced by Endemol Shine North America and Hello Sunshine in association with Walt Disney Television Alternative, per Variety. Cheery, multi-talented celebrity Reese Witherspoon will serve as one of the show’s executive producers.

Besides not having to travel for work, Castaneda says she’s most excited about hearing Houstonians’ stories and doing her best to share them. “I know how deserving families in Houston are,” she says.

And where does the local EMHE producer suggest hosts Clea and Joanna dine when they’re in our food capital town? “Local Foods in Rice Village or downtown,” she says. Ladies, lock it in.