A major building project underway in Point Breeze. (WPVI)
In September 2014 members of Team Rubicon, Student Veterans of America, and The Mission Continues assisted Habitat for Humanity Philadelphia with construction on 4 new homes for some worthy new homeowners.
By Michaek Buozis
A little more than a decade ago, Lorraine Gomez and her husband, Gerald, both military veterans, decided to leave the South Jersey suburbs and move back to Gomez’s old neighborhood in Parkside. “Why live with all this overhead when we can live in a beautiful place?” asks Gomez, who lives in a historic Victorian rowhouse on Viola Street, just a block south of Parkside Avenue and West Fairmount Park.