Buder Haven and The Marilee

On Thursday, Catholic Charities of Spokane and Volunteers of America celebrated the opening of Buder Haven and The Marilee, two permanent supportive housing projects for homeless people who struggle with mental illness, substance abuse or other challenges.

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Thu., July 28, 2016

The two new, brightly-colored apartment buildings built by Catholic Charities and Volunteers of America with help from Spokane City and County are called Buder Haven and The Marilee, shown during the grand opening Thursday, July 28, 2016. The two buildings, on the 200 block of E. 2nd Ave., have 100 one-bedroom and studio units specifically to house the chronically homeless.

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Marilee Roloff, left, and Sister Madonna Buder, right, listen to speakers at the grand opening of the new apartment buildings erected by Catholic Charities and the Volunteers of America Thursday, July 28, 2016 in Spokane. The two buildings are named Buder Haven, after Buder's parents, and The Marilee, after Roloff. Roloff is the retired director of the region's Volunteers of America chapter and Buder is a nun who taught school then spent decades in the local jails ministering to inmates.

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Sister Madonna Buder stands to be recognized at the grand opening of the new apartment buildings erected by Catholic Charities and the Volunteers of America, Thursday, July 28, 2016 in Spokane. The two buildings are named Buder Haven, after Buder's parents, and The Marilee, after Marilee Roloff. Roloff is the retired director of the region's Volunteers of America chapter and Buder is a nun who taught school then spent decades in the local jails ministering to inmates.

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Marilee Roloff is recognized and applauded at the grand opening of the new apartment buildings erected by Catholic Charities and the Volunteers of America, Thursday, July 28, 2016 in Spokane. The two buildings are named Buder Haven, after Sister Madonna Buder's parents, and The Marilee, after Marilee Roloff. Roloff is the retired director of the region's Volunteers of America chapter and Buder is a nun who taught school then spent decades in the local jails ministering to inmates.

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Social services coordinator Kathleen Schmidt, left, holds the door while Bishop Thomas Daly blesses a studio apartment at the request of the tenant in the new Buder Haven apartment house, which held its grand opening on E. 2nd Ave. Thursday, July 28, 2016. Buderhaven and the adjacent building, The Marilee, were built specifically to provide subsidized housing for the chronically homeless. The two buildings have 100 one-bedroom and studio units.

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Most of the apartments, either studios like this one or one-bedroom units, await qualified homeless people inside the Buder Haven apartments on the 200 block of E. 2nd Ave. in Spokane, Thursday, July 28, 2016. Buder Haven and the adjacent The Marilee apartments, will take around 100 people off the streets. The buildings were a cooperative effort of Catholic Charities, Volunteers of America, Spokane City and County.

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Ezra Bedeski, who is 39, sits in his new apartment in Buder Haven, one of two new apartment houses built to house the chronically homeless, Thursday, July 28, 2016. The buildings, Buder Haven and The Marilee, are on the 200 block of E. 2nd Ave. in Spokane.

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Connie Birdtail, Social Services Coordinator at Father Bach Haven Apartments, an apartment building designed to house the chronically homeless, talks about how grateful the new residents are when they get a new modern apartment. She said many new residents of the modern apartment buildings have tears in their eyes when they see Birdtail was helping out during the grand opening for two more apartment buildings, built by Catholic Charities and Volunteers of America, Buder Haven and The Marilee, Thursday, July 28, 2016. She is standing in a resident's apartment in Buderhaven.

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