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a time. here is tom foreman. reporter: little more than a year ago craig and mandy were struggling. they lost so much income and property in katrina his job with the sheriff s department could not overcome the setbacks let alone the recession. did you have at that time any hope of buying a place like this? no. not at all. reporter: this wasn t just you, this was everybody. everybody on the street, everybody in the neighborhood. i mean, everybody had lost everything. reporter: the situation was driving desperately needed workers away even before the catastrophic oil spill. everyone knew the community had to get out of that trouble and that is where this place came in. business and civic leaders raised $12 million to start the nonprofit gulf coast renaissance corporation to help howes those families. the state gave money, too, and when renaissance hoped the doors

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