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Students from The University of Alabama and Auburn University plan to work together starting Monday to build a house for a Tuscaloosa family that lost theirs in the April 27 tornado.

It will take the students — about 60 from UA and 30 from Auburn — four days to finish the Habitat for Humanity home, which they’re calling a House United. The house is located on Fifth Street Northeast in the Holt Community off Crescent Ridge Road. 

The students won’t just work together; they’ll also live together on the UA campus, share meals and travel together to the work site. They’ll be joined by each school’s mascot, and student athletes will also participate.

The project was originally designed for Baldwin County, but that changed after the storms, according to Wahnee Sherman, director of the UA Community Service Center. The new house will have a safe room that was designed with help from a UA engineering professor.

Sherman said the goal is to do a House United build every year in different parts of the state.

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