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Andie Rounds’ Novato home is blue, two stories, with white trim around the windows and doors. In the backyard, her son grows summer vegetables.
But her favorite part might be the small balcony off the master bedroom, where she can people-watch and look out over a nearby hill. “And I love sitting on it — especially when it’s a little colder, and I’ll sit there with my cup of coffee.”
This home, now a source of comforts both big and small, was very nearly not hers. In 2016, she won a literal lottery for the chance to purchase it at an affordable price, an opportunity made possible by Habitat for Humanity’s Greater San Francisco chapter with help from a state grant program called CalHome…