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Healthy Homes, Healthy Lives: Making the American Dream Smarter

Kelly Caffarelli, President, The Home Depot Foundation

For those of you who regularly follow my Tweets and this blog, you know that The Home Depot Foundation is focused on bringing the benefits of healthy, affordable housing to working families. And you know that we’ve actually increased our funding initiatives over the last couple of years while many foundations have had to cut back. Why? Because housing has been at the crux of much of the country’s economic woes, and so we feel there is no better time to be focused on how to build and maintain healthy, affordable homes for families. [Read more.](http://homedepotfoundation.org/blog)

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