Doug Gorman, owner of Home-Mart retail sales center, is helping Tulsans find housing that fits their budgets. He's working with the Tulsa City Council to achieve its goals of assisting low-income families with new homes.

Through the program, started by Mayor Susan Savage, families can buy a manufactured home for $30 per square foot, versus the average $65 per square foot it costs to construct a new site-built home in Tulsa.

Gorman has served on Tulsa's Affordable Housing Task Force for two years. He says it's rewarding to see young families and first-time home owners buy their first homes. However, he says it's not just the home owners who are benefiting from the city's program.

"We'll continue to look for ways to convert sites in Tulsa that are unoccupied to occupied taxpaying home owners," Gorman says.

For more information about the city of Tulsa's Affordable Housing Tax Force, call 918/835-0500.

Pictured in the photo below City Councilman Sam Roop (left) presents Gorman with the City of Tulsa Excellence Award.