Widowed and 84 years old, Julia Minors, and her puppy, Coco, had no one to complete even the most trivial repairs on their home until Minors heard about a paint voucher program from a friend.
Minors’ home received renovations to her house at little cost through Partnership for Paint, a program sponsored by Gainesville’s Community Redevelopment Agency in association with a separate program by Alachua Habitat for Humanity.
Before the partnership came along, the original Community Redevelopment Agency’s paint voucher program was developed in 2012 by its staff, said Malcolm Kiner, project manager.
That program currently operates in two districts in Gainesville: Fifth Avenue Pleasant Street and Eastside.