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Boston offers $6m in housing vouchers

500 homeless families to receive new subsidy

By Peter Schworm

 |  Globe Staff  

  December 23, 2011

Until last year, Christie French and her two children lived at her’s mother house in Roxbury. It was a good home, a well-lived place filled with favorite things and family pictures, and they were happy there. It even had a big backyard, big enough for a dog. But when French’s mother lost her office job at a construction company, the family couldn’t make the mortgage. French worked at Dunkin’ Donuts, but her paycheck wasn’t nearly enough.

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