A home in Alexandria, Va., occupied by five homeless female veterans and their two children got a last-minute reprieve from foreclosure, thanks to donations from the public and from the trust of a former assistant secretary of the Air Force. One woman living in the home is a reservist who is on her way to Afghanistan, said Jas Boothe, founder of Final Salute, a nonprofit organization that provides services and transitional housing to female veterans. Boothe learned by chance in December that the Alexandria home Final Salute was renting as transitional housing was being foreclosed on by the owner, RPJ Housing. Concerned about the future of the women and their children, Boothe went to the public auction and bid on the property. Her hopes of paying $150,000 for the property were crushed when she got into a bidding war with another bidder, and she wound up paying $455,000...
Posted on: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 12:34:51 +0000
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