Source: The Monitor, McAllen, TexasSept.迷你倉新蒲崗 12--PHARR -- Juanita Candanoza, 85, was beaming as she looked out the windows of her new home Monday afternoon.The Las Milpas resident struggled for five years in a broken-down house with holes in the floor, roof and ceiling from Hurricane Dolly flooding. Six weeks ago, Affordable Homes of South Texas leveled the structure and built a 1,150-square-foot, two-bedroom, green-painted cottage in its place.Monday, the group threw a small party to welcome Candanoza home."Everything," she said in Spanish when asked what her favorite part of the house was, praising the workers. "Everything is wonderful."The project is the second of 840 Rio Grande Valley homes to be completed that received funding from the Disaster Recovery Housing Program, said Ken迷你倉出租DeJarnett, Affordable Homes director of real estate development.The program provides Department of Housing and Urban Development funding via the Lower Rio Grande Valley Development Council to assist people still suffering housing problems from Hurricanes Dolly and Ike in 2008.Affordable Homes is one of 15 area groups including nonprofits and construction companies who are now using the funds to repair and build houses for applicants, DeJarnett said.Candanoza's daughter Janie Pedraza said it was a relief to see her mother under a roof no longer leaking water."This came at exactly the right time," she said.efindell@themonitor.comCopyright: ___ (c)2013 The Monitor (McAllen, Texas) Visit The Monitor (McAllen, Texas) at .themonitor.com Distributed by MCT Information Services迷你倉
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