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(L-R): Tennessee Housing Development Agency Executive
Director Ted Fellman, Tennessee State Representative
Mark White, Shelby Residential and Vocational Services
(SRVS) Chairman of the Board John Barzizza, SRVS
Executive Director Jeffrie Bruton, United Housing
Executive Director Tim Bolding, United Way of the
Mid-South Vice-President of Communications Dave Skorupa,
United Way of the Mid-South Community Impact Staff
Ashley Washington, and Greater Memphis Chamber Business
Development Consultant LaVera Tolbert join Bruton for a
ribbon cutting at a grand opening of a SRVS home on July
22. The
home was built for people with disabilities through a
partnership with THDA and United Housing. SRVS received
more than one million from the Department of Housing and
Urban Development's Neighborhood Stabilization Program
and the TARP stimulus package to provide a total of 6
single family homes for low-income housing. The once
foreclosed property was renovated for handicap
accessibility by United Housing, and will be occupied by
service recipients from SRVS, a non-profit United Way
partner agency which supports more than 850 people with
disabilities in West Tennessee through various programs
including a residential living component which provides
support services to more than 210 individuals in Shelby
County.
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