Las Vegas couple grateful for home repairs
Norma and Frank Mcduffie, both in their 80s, were married on Valentine’s Day nearly 50 years ago. They raised three sons and a daughter together. When they were younger, Norma sang while Frank played the horns. Sometimes, he played the trombone; other times, it was a gold-plated saxophone he bought at a “hock shop for $40 at a time.”
In 2002, about six years before the Las Vegas housing market collapsed, the Mcduffies brought a pale-pink stucco one-story home in the northwest valley, and they weathered the housing market crash better than most of their neighbors. Nevada led the nation in foreclosures for 62 months from 2007 to 2012. While the housing market has rebounded, some areas have recovered more slowly.
That’s where Rebuilding Together has been able to assist. The national nonprofit group helps low-income seniors like the Mcduffies, veterans and families with active-duty service members, with housing issues like broken air conditioning units or holes in the roof. The group, with 142 affiliates in 142 cities, makes repairs at no cost to the homeowner.
Rebuilding Together’s ambition is to stabilize neighborhoods with high rates of foreclosure, abandoned properties and vacant homes by working with social services, housing providers and counseling agencies to keep homes affordable and safe to live in.
“No one else does this for seniors,” said Bob Cleveland, the executive director of Rebuilding Together Southern Nevada. “Anything that has to do with safe and healthy homes, we provide at no cost to the client.”
A series of family deaths and health problems interfered with the Mcduffies’ efforts to maintain their home. And on a sweltering Las Vegas summer day, the problem got worse: The couple realized someone had stolen critical parts of their air conditioning unit, rendering it useless.
Rebuilding Together installed a new unit for about $7,000 as part of $15,000
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