Marie Young, Mobile home replacement recipient – The One-12 Project

Senior Marie Young needed a new home. A community answered the call, with RUPCO coordinated contractors, volunteers, municipal officials, and staff to remove a dilapidated, 1960s trailer and replace it with a new, energy-efficient, manufactured home.

With $10,000 for RUPCO’s Board of Director Excellence in Governance award and a matching grant from Ulster Savings Bank in honor of Lisa Schatzel (a RUPCO board member and USB mortgage lending officer), the pieces came together. With support from the community, individuals, local businesses, volunteer groups like Ulster YouthBuild, and Town Supervisor Joe Croce allowed clean-up, site prep, build-out and permitting fall into place. In just four months, a community united to support one of its own: a woman who wished to stay in her home where she has lived for decades.

Special thanks to all who helped make this Home possible for Marie Young.