USF St. Petersburg department builds new home

BY AMANDA SMITH
STAFF WRITER

Harriett Fletcher has always wanted a place to call home. Thanks to Habitat for Humanity and the USF St. Petersburg community, she will finally get her wish.

“For so long, I’d been a part of a government-assisted housing program where I had to move every six months,” said Fletcher, who has been the staff assistant for the College of Arts and Sciences for two years. “My kids never had a place they knew as home.”

Fletcher said when she had endured all she could with the housing program, she and her two sons, ages 19 and 12, moved in with her mother as a last resort.