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<br />... <br /> <br />Personal Statements from Section 8 tenants at Hunter's Park <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Walter, Apt. 212 <br /> <br />. How will the loss of affordable housing affect you? <br /> <br />I don't know if another place will take my voucher. I don't know how long <br />it will take for me to get on a waiting list. If! can't fmd an affordable place <br />to live in the cities, I will be forced to move up north and live with my <br />brother, but I don't know ifhe will have me. <br /> <br />. What would happen if you had to pay market rate for rent-about <br />$600 a month? <br /> <br />Well, I couldn't pay that much. I only make $512 a month from (SSI) social <br />security disability. Now, I pay 30% of my income for rent, $135 a month, <br />$30 for the electric bill, $26 a month for the phone-totaling $191 in regular <br />expenses. I am left with about $321, and this does not include food or Rx <br />drugs. I have to go to the food shelf once a month in order to get by. It gets <br />really tight at the end of the month. I squeeze every penny. . <br /> <br />Nancie Light, Apt. 128 <br /> <br />I live in a subsidized apartment at Hunter's Park. I am a divorced single <br />mother that thinks it is great to be able to have a nice apartment in a nice <br />area, to be able to afford and raise my child in a good school district. I <br />would not be able to afford market rent on my salary as a single parent. I <br />feel it is necessary for subsidized apartments in areas where you feel safe for <br />your child and yourself. I do not want to have to move my child out of an <br />area where he has made friends, feels safe, and has started school in district <br />621. I would not be able to buy a house or rent an apartment at market rent <br />in this area on an LP A salary. I feel we all are good tenants here. <br /> <br />Henrietta Briggs, Apt. 312 <br /> <br />I am a woman, eighty-seven years old, and have been a widow for over <br />thirty years. I am able with the assistance of BUD to live comfortably at <br />Hunter's Park-which is a very nice apartment complex with fifteen . <br />subsidized apartments for young people with children and handicapped <br />