Thumbs up to Common Ground, a unique force in low-income housing, for receiving one of seventeen national Special Merit Awards from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Under the inspired leadership of John Fullinwider. Common Ground has rescued scores of houses from demolition, renovated dozens of others, and offered hundreds of poverty-level Dallasites a taste of the American dream by making it possible for them to own their own homes.
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