Seniors Coming Back Home to New Affordable Housing Community: Volunteers of America Breaks Ground on Property in New Orleans

From: U.S. Newswire | Date: March 18, 2008 | Copyright information

To: STATE EDITORS

Contact: Roberta Heine, +1-703-341-7042, rheine@voa.org, or Sheryl LeBlanc, +1-504-486-8667, sleblanc@voagno.org, both of Volunteers of America

The Terraces on Tulane will Open 2009

NEW ORLEANS, March 18 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Hundreds of elderly New Orleans residents displaced by Hurricane Katrina will soon be coming back home. On March 14, Volunteers of America broke ground on their future home, The Terraces on Tulane, a 200-unit community for low-...

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