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" So John we're talking about an affordable house and yet I've just walked into. A rough interior that looks very standard it looks you know. Top -- The dimensions of the house though before we go through it are what. Point six feet by 36 feet. That's a good size yeah it's yes so we're in the living room here and just from eyeballing everything it stick built there's nothing -- factory made. The materials all look first rate cut. It's full dimensional joists and strapping for the ceiling and what about the exterior sheathing. We have OS keyboard oriented strand board well. And two by four stud walls OK and the windows. The windows are the low. Hilton's. That beautiful window the office of the low emissivity glass yeah helps with energy consumption. What about the insulation is it all federal standards. Up to meet a Massachusetts code or via the building permit OK and we always exceed the code okay. It is obviously it's an affordable house wants to be. Easy to operate not too expensive to heat that's correct we're kind of heating do you put him and these homes we use -- we use the baseboard hot water traditional traditional boiler and what's the dimension of the living room. This little room is thirteen by eighteen by eighteen yes that's a very very nice size and then essentially over here we have a space that's about the same size roughly. Correct how all of this get laid out. We'll have the refrigerator in this corner of the store will go here we'll have a lazy Susan in the corner. Kitchen sink cabinet right here -- we'll go almost over to the door with cabinets. Autumn and talked and the area over there is is the eat in area that's correct all right. So then we've got a central hall. And we can just duck right through here into. What is this this is -- half bath laundry room washer and dryer about a nine by seven room very sensible. So you don't have to go to the basement to the year laundry. And then. A lot of downstairs floor space is dedicated to the master bedroom right. It's it's a very nice size master bedroom. About a sixteen by thirteen. And then we have his and her closets in -- walk in closet and very generous bathroom. We have a good size master bath. We'll do a double bowl sink we have room for. Linen closet. Full tub shower and toilet. And then upstairs. Upstairs we have two large bedrooms and a full well. I mean a family of six can remain in place like this very comfortably yes they can now what are the realities of the people that are coming to live here can't how to qualify. Well the first time home buyer affordable homes have to be sold to families they're reserved for families what what we do the lottery. Single people can qualify for but what we do the drawing their names are drawn out last solar realities there there they want the home. Does a single parent qualify as a family yes OK and what about in terms of their annual income. My understanding is they can make up about 65000. Dollars. Based on the size of the family. OK a minimum of 29000. To 65 -- OK so the subsidy is not in terms of bankrolling them or mortgages or anything like that subsidies really as we said earlier in the forty B setup that makes it. Affordable to buy it that's correct the subsidy is in the price of the home."
