HOME Program Helps Longtime Resident Stay in Her Neighborhood

Mrs. Dorothy Woodard, 91, has lived on West Wright Street for more than 50 years.

Thanks to the City of Pensacola’s HOME Investments Partnership Program, she can enjoy a newly rebuilt home for many years to come. The new home lacks the distinctive pink awning and accents that made the old one a neighborhood landmark, but it is a worthy successor, according to her daughter Sarah Burnett.

If it hadn’t been for word-of-mouth, Burnett said her family never would have known about the HOME Investment Partnerships Program, which made it possible for her mother stay in her neighborhood in the care of family…

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