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Rebuilding Neighborhoods through Public/Private Partnerships Video

Bob kicks off Season 2 of Bob Vila in St. Petersburg, Florida, where he meets with Askia Aquil of St. Petersburg Neighborhood Housing Services to talk about the upcoming project in Bartlett Park, a neighborhood that is being revitalized through partnerships between the neighborhood, residents, SPNHS, and Bank of America. Aquil explains how this classic Florida neighborhood of substantial homes was built in the 1920s as winter houses that were closed up in the summer. Eventually, the burdens of maintenance and repair made them too costly for their distant owners and they were abandoned. Boarded, abandoned properties and overgrown lots gave way to drug traffic and crime. SPNHS has worked together with the residents to regain the neighborhood, mostly through first-time homeownership that is meant to last a lifetime. SPNHS helps low-income, first-time homeowners purchase, finance, and maintain their properties so that they and their neighborhoods can thrive.

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	NOW PLAYING Rebuilding Neighborhoods through Public/Private Partnerships Bob kicks off Season 2 of Bob Vila in St. Petersburg, Florida, where he meets with Askia Aquil of St. Petersburg Neighborhood Housing Services to talk about the upcoming project ...
	Site Clearing, Footings and Stem-Wall Foundation Bob meets Buba Barrow of Barrow Construction, the general contractor for the container-built housing project, and Ray Price of SPNHS, the project manager for the job. Barrow, a former engineer ... Watch video and view full description
	Converting Steel Shipping Containers to Housing Bob talks about the vast number of steel shipping containers abandoned in America's ports. Because America is no longer an exporting nation, only an importing nation, it is too expensive ... Watch video and view full description
	Facing and Insulating the Steel Shipping Container David Cross from TAW shows Bob how the exterior is finished with heavy-gauge steel to bring any voids out to plane. It is then faced in a sheet-metal wrap to ... Watch video and view full description
	Floorplans and Layout of the Container House Back on site, Bob joins Ray Price for a look at the ISBU's on their foundations. The total footprint of the house is 58 feet from front to back, or ... Watch video and view full description