March 22, 2001

Wiring Houses for the Poor

By NICOLE WALLACE

By NICOLE WALLACE

Peninsula Habitat for Humanity is looking to provide low-income families with homes on the information superhighway.

Working with Cisco Systems, the Menlo Park, Calif., chapter of Habitat for Humanity is wiring 36 town houses it is building in Redwood City for high-speed access to the Internet. Cisco hopes to take the lessons learned from the project and offer similar assistance to other Habitat affiliates.

Wiring a home for the Internet

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