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Kerry P. Quaglia, Executive Director, Home HeadQuarters
Kerry P. Quaglia, Executive Director, Home HeadQuarters
Solar made affordable for 'regular-income' households
After renting for her entire adult life, Amanda Mather came to Homewise in Santa Fe, New Mexico, in 2009 to purchase her first house. Coming from a family of Santa Fe artists, it was important to her to find a home where she could express her unique style.
Manufactured housing done right with the Next Step Network
Sherry Farley, President and CEO, Frontier Housing
Stacey Epperson, President and Founder, Next Step Network
Helping homes go green in Vermont
Ludy Biddle, Executive Director, NeighborWorks of Western Vermont
Erin Sorensen: Making neighborhoods inclusive
When Erin Sorensen and her husband moved into the Veterans Park neighborhood of Boise, Idaho, it was so “rough” he wondered why she was insistent it was a good choice. A few homes were clearly a hive of drug-related activity, police came in and out, fences were vandalized with spray paint and the school bus was a shooting target.
Sandra Robertson: Reconnecting residents to the land
Communal gardens have become a fixture of neighborhood revitalization and community-building programs. Whether it be individual plots in one garden or one big lot that residents cultivate together, there is a growing escalation of a phenomenon with deep roots in American history, culture—and psyche.
When this resident sees ‘room for improvement,’ she gets to work
As a resident of the College Park neighborhood in Las Vegas for 54 years, RaeAnn Peterson with NHS of Southern Nevada didn’t stand around and wait for someone else to fix problems in her neighborhood.
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