AWARDS: Housing Heros

            SWAP, Stop Wasting Abandoned Property, is the first Citizens Bank Housing Heroes Award recipient for 2005. SWAP will receive a $50,000 grant from the Citizens Bank Foundation, $10,000 of which will be used for a resident-related flower box program.

            SWAP was selected from 12 applications for its project-25 homes in 25 months- in the Potter Avenue neighborhood of South Providence. SWAP brought land, arranged financing and began an aggressive effort to sell the homes. All were sold within 25 months and SWAP sold 70 more to families whose income is below 80 percent of median income in South Providence.

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