Article updated: 12/23/2012 10:16 AM

Evanston woman espouses benefits from housing program

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Stephanie Brown lives in a supportive housing apartment in Evanston.

Bob Chwedyk | Staff Photographer

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Stephanie Brown lives in a supportive housing apartment in Evanston.

Bob Chwedyk | Staff Photographer

Stephanie Brown, living in a supportive housing apartment in Evanston, shows some Christmas gifts she recently bought to Director of Housing Options Debbie Bretag.

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Stephanie Brown lives in a supportive housing apartment in Evanston.

Bob Chwedyk | Staff Photographer

Stephanie Brown, living in a supportive housing apartment in Evanston, looks outside her window.

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Stephanie Brown, in her kitchen, lives in a supportive housing apartment in Evanston.

Bob Chwedyk | Staff Photographer

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Stephanie Brown said when she was able to move from a nursing home where she lived in fear for three years to her Evanston apartment, "it felt like I'd been released from prison." Brown, 61, who struggles with depression, was able to move into the kind of supportive housing for the mentally ill that is in short supply in the suburbs.

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