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Homemade: Program puts families together to build each other’s houses

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By Clarissa Tapia

Tuesday, March 4, 2014
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Families in the border town of San Luis are working together to help build houses for themselves and their neighbors. A federal government grant pays for supervisors who show the families how to do the construction work and the community members do the rest. Cronkite News reporter Clarissa Tapia has the story.

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