Clarity Rose

[jinx]

Why will it take years? What is the wait list waiting for, are there a certain number of vouchers that are available and she's waiting for one to be turned back in? Is it a percentage of the population? How does it work?
I just looked and there is low income/sliding scale and sec. 8 housing available in CO... some of it is just sitting there empty for months at a time. Why? I realize no one cares about the people who need the housing, but what about the people who own the sec. 8 properties? They can often be influential, and certainly can't be happy about paying their own mortgages.... why aren't they causing a stink?

Like this place. No voucher needed, income based rent ($72-$431/mo)... sitting there for 3 mos. I'm confused.

Originally Posted by jinx

Why will it take years? What is the wait list waiting for, are there a certain number of vouchers that are available and she's waiting for one to be turned back in? Is it a percentage of the population? How does it work?

It takes years because the housing voucher program is being slashed to ribbons. Fewer vouchers are available each year. Meanwhile rents go up and people on fixed incomes like Clarity Rose do not see their income rise with inflation. A disabled adult on SSI lives at something like 300% below the official poverty line. Women with children are given preferential treatment when it comes to low income housing. This is not always a bad thing. There are many valid reasons why a single Mom might temporarily need a little help. The trouble is that this policy also leaves the system open to abuse by folks like Ms. Crystal Meth and her burgeoning family. (however you spell that word)

Originally Posted by jinx

I just looked and there is low income/sliding scale and sec. 8 housing available in CO... some of it is just sitting there empty for months at a time. Why? I realize no one cares about the people who need the housing, but what about the people who own the sec. 8 properties? They can often be influential, and certainly can't be happy about paying their own mortgages.... why aren't they causing a stink?

Like this place. No voucher needed, income based rent ($72-$431/mo)... sitting there for 3 mos. I'm confused.

Those web sites have not been updated for many a moon. They were generally set up when the property was first built and no one has bothered to go back and update the web sites with the fact that these places now have long waiting lists. Funny you would bring up that place in Cortez, Colorado. Cortez is a pretty isolated commmunity 400 hundred miles away near the 4 corners region. I just got back from there a week or so ago and talked to the manager of that very same complex on Clarity Rose's behalf. There is now at least a year wait list for one of those apartments and people who already reside in Cortez are given preference when a unit becomes available.