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Out of Destruction, New Possibility

12/13/2022

how Dayton's tornado recovery brings
​innovative housing opportunity

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When Associate Director Caroline Hamilton-Arnold was in Dayton, OH earlier this year, she rented a truck large enough to move a 14’ trailer. The Heartland Conference of the United Church of Christ was outfitting the trailer with a full set of tools and supplies for volunteer teams to use for disaster recovery, and its inaugural use was at a collaborative recovery site coordinated with Week of Compassion and the Pathway to Homeownership Project (PTHO) in response to the 2019 Memorial Day tornado outbreak. 

When Caroline picked up the truck, the staff behind the counter asked why she was in town.


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Week of Compassion is the relief, refugee and development mission fund of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in the United States and Canada.
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