AUSTIN, Texas - A newly renovated tower for affordable senior housing is now open.

It's called The Rebekah, named after President Lyndon B. Johnson's mother. It's part of the RBJ Residences, the largest senior housing community in Central Texas.

The Rebekah's grand opening

The backstory:

During LBJ's presidency, he came up with the idea to create the Rebekah Baines Johnson Center for affordable senior living.

In 1968, the Austin Geriatric Center acquired 27 acres of extra federal land, what used to be a fish hatchery, to bring LBJ's vision to life.

LBJ's daughter, Luci Baines Johnson, spoke at the grand opening for the renovated Rebekah.

"Daddy wanted to transform an abandoned federal fish hatchery into a campus where low-income elderly people could live in beauty by a lake he and

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