After four floods, Tallahassee single mom gets renovated home for the holidays

A surprise call before Thanksgiving gave a single mom and her children a fully furnished, affordable home.

  • Amanda Arnold, a single mother of two and housekeeper, lost stable housing after her apartment flooded four times.
  • Good News Outreach’s Heart Work Initiative provides transitional homes at roughly 50% below area median income, plus rental and down‑payment assistance.
  • Watch the video to see how the family plans to spend their first Thanksgiving in their new home.Displaced Tallahassee family receives keys to a house in time for the holiday

BROADCAST TRANSCRIPT:

While many families will be stepping into the kitchen this Thanksgiving to prepare a holiday meal, one Tallahassee family wasn’t sure they’d have a kitchen at all.

In Southwest Tallahassee, a mother and her children were displaced from their home due to a devastating flooding, but one nonprofit organization stepped up and is giving the family a set of keys to a fully furnished home just in time for the holidays…

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