rationale to a panel that included various local professionals as well as stakeholders from Habitat, bcWORKSHOP, and the City of Dallas. Dignitaries included City Council Member Carolyn Davis and Dallas Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway. Each team offered a unique design for three different site adjacencies, but all shared a consistent theme—personal choice. Through their housing concepts for Habitat, the fellows sought to enable choices for the practice of culture and, by so doing, promote ownership and pride to effect positive change in the Bonton community. The scenarios Habitat provided the fellowship teams included the following: The Smiths Mr. and Mrs. Smith are in their early 50s and have two grown sons and a daughter who no longer live with them. Mr. Smith, disabled from an earlier car accident, helps his sons by taking care of their two young children during the day. Mrs. Smith wakes up early to get to her job at the call center by 8 a.m. Mrs. Smith
takes the family car to work each day, so Mr. Smith uses the bus to take the grandchildren to Head Start each morning. The Smiths look forward to cooking and having extended family over in their new home. Mrs. Smith also looks forward to gardening, watching the annual trick-or-treaters in the neighborhood, and watching her grandchildren play in the yard at their new home. The Delgados Ms. Delgado is a single mom in her late 30s with three children, ages three, five, and 17. She looks forward to moving from their current apartment and into her new home so that her children will have a nice yard. After getting the children to school by 8 a.m., she drives the family car to her job at the eye clinic. During the weekend, Ms. Delgado hopes to be able to chat with her sisters on the porch of her new home while watching her younger children and their cousins play. Her oldest child, Mary, likes to have her friends over or quietly enjoy a Judy Blume book in a space she can call her own.
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