Article from the Office of Financial Empowerment

"When they walk into Maria Chavez’s Boston Housing Authority (BHA) office, many public housing residents come fatigued by the challenges of poverty, stress, and the uphill battle to improve their situation. Maria embraces them – anyone who enters her office, really – in bear hugs. As coordinator of the BHA’s Public Housing Family Self-Sufficiency (FSS) Program, she “charges them up” with positive pep talk, connecting them to child care, transportation, education, and employment opportunities. But Chavez doesn’t stop there. She encourages her clients to consider a goal so ambitious as to seem dream-like: home ownership."

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