To kick off 2026, Melody McCurtis, deputy director at Metcalfe Park Community Bridges, had a surprise to share with Metcalfe Park resident and longtime renter Shirley Dunn.
“You know that house you’ve been checking on for us…on 33rd [Street]?,” McCurtis asks Dunn, who is sitting across from her. “The house is yours.”
Dunn bursts into a mixture of laughter and tears and says “Thank you Jesus.” She’s a longtime Metcalfe Park resident, and she just won the neighborhood’s lease-to-own lottery, their Reclaim and Restore initiative…