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Article: NO PLACE FOR HOME
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- Daily Breeze
- Article date:
- October 10, 2009
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The first thing Cathy Rady's daughters did when they moved into
their new bedroom - after their bunk beds were set up - was to
decorate the walls with mismatched photo frames and shopping bags
from their favorite stores.
It's the first time in years the two Hawthorne girls, ages 8 and
13, have had their own space. In their former apartment, which was a
one-bedroom down the street, they slept behind a curtain in the
dining room.
Rady could only afford the two-bedroom unit in Hawthorne because
the city decided to do something unusual for a municipality too
small for a government-funded housing authority: It started its own
subsidized-housing program.
Since last winter, the city has purchased ...