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Wednesday, July 1, 2009

New affordable housing opens for seniors



Frances Pacheco is coming home to a place that she can afford on her fixed income.

The 69-year-old retiree is one of the first tenants to move into Legacy Senior Residences at 1005 N. Elma, Casper’s newest affordable senior residence.

Pacheco retired in Las Vegas from jobs “doing all the hard work,” like cleaning houses and working in laundries. She wanted to return to Casper to be with an extended family that includes eight brothers, eight sisters and grandchildren, great and great-great grandchildren.

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