The Gainesville Housing Authority hopes its Bank Bus event on Thursday will help residents with their budgets, financial literacy and computer use. The authority is working with Branch Banking & Trust Co. to bring the BB&T Bank Bus to public housing residents to share financial strategies that can strengthen the residents’ budgets. “We’ve been working with BB&T to increase financial literacy with our residents,” said Judith Escamilla, executive director of GHA, which is home to about 1,600 individual residents in 495 units throughout the city.