Energetic NovaFeb 2, 2023
A low income apartment in Vancouver Washington had a fire. Now, disabled residents are looking for a new place to live. Discrimination on the basis of missed payments do to #disability create barriers to finding new #housing . They are squatting in uninhabitable apartments with no electricity or water. Low vacancy exaserbates.
#section8
#homeless
https://www.columbian.com/news/2023/feb/02/low-income-residents-of-fox-pointe-apartments-in-vancouver-left-without-housing-options-after-fire/
Low-income residents of Fox Pointe Apartments in Vancouver left without housing options after fire

In late October, Wilma Pomeroy was gearing up for a Friday night doing laundry at Fox Pointe apartments in Vancouver’s Bagley Downs neighborhood when another tenant set the building on fire. She grabbed a change of clothes, pajamas and her phone and got out as fast as she could.

The Columbian
Show threadEnergetic Nova
Its garbage. Disabled partially blind woman couldn’t read her messages do to the website the apartments send notices for missing payments on being inaccessible. She had no idea until she was being evicted. And then the fire.
Feb 2, 2023 at 11:02pmWeb
Show threadEnergetic NovaFeb 3, 2023

This story is a great example of how housing vouchers can only do so much especially for disabled because discrimination based on credit scores or a lack of positive letter from your previous apartment can exist outside of discrimination on the basis of income.

#housing
#HousingAuthority
#section8
#yimby
#disability
#Washington
#poverty