By OLIVIA BERGMEIER
Salina Post
Residents and businesses on West Crawford Street witnessed a large 1940s home wheeled about one mile west last Wednesday, shutting down the busy street — complete with a police escort.
The Salina Community Housing Development Corporation of Central Kansas, or CHDO, moved the house to provide a housing opportunity for low and moderate-income families.
According to CHDO director Mike Peterson, the organization will renovate the house to rent or sell it to a local family late next year.
"We have purchased and renovated seven homes and sold them to low and moderate-income families," Peterson said. "There are all sorts of ways that we can help them find resources to purchase their home, and usually, it's their first home."
This home will be the organization's eighth house to renovate, but it's their first to move with the help of Unruh House Moving & Lifting from Galva.
CHDO began assisting low and moderate-income families in 2005 and has since weatherized 70 homes, rented 44 homes and provided financial assistance for nine families in the community.
The house move began at 1 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 18, at the home's initial location at 728 S. Ninth St., and moved along West Crawford Street to its final destination at 746 Choctaw Ave.