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How local housing festival connected residents with assistance, resources
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Rosa Hightower (left), who works for the Salvation Army in Gainesville, speaks with Catherine Chapman about the nonprofit's assistance programs at a housing festival hosted by the Gainesville-Hall County team for the Georgia Initiative for Community Housing at Longwood Park on Saturday, June 22, 2019. - photo by Joshua Silavent
Catherine Chapman, with her granddaughter in tow collecting stickers and other freebies, strolled along the footpath at Longwood Park in Gainesville on Saturday, June 22, unsure about what kind of assistance she might find for repairs needed to her home.“I’m just getting some information,” she said.Chapman came to the right place.