SWAP breaks ground on elderly housing project
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Affordable housing advocates gathered at 201 Thurbers Ave. in Providence Monday morning to celebrate SWAP's (Stop Wasting Abandoned Property) groundbreaking for its first elderly housing development. It has taken about three years to date to plan and win financing for the $3.6 million, 22-apartment project, and construction will take another year, Carla DeStefano, SWAP's executive director, said. Other speakers referred to the project as a welcome bit of good news amid continuing problems with the housing market. "We're trying to rebuild these neighborhoods one house ... at a time," said U.S. Rep. James R. Langevin. "We have a lot of stuff popping up in the South Side, not just weeds and overgrown grass," Councilman Luis Aponte said. U.S. Sen. Jack Reed, SWAP board President Richardson Ogidan, Barbara Fields of the Local Initiatives Support Program, Thomas Deller, director of the Providence Department of Planning and Development, and Nancy Smith Greer, director of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's Providence field office, also spoke at the ceremony. 
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