Two dozen homeless veteran families in Charleston to receive housing assistance
VIDEO: Two dozen homeless veteran families in Charleston to receive housing assistance By Lillian Donahue | December 24, 2020 at 1:02 PM EST - Updated December 24 at 6:58 PM
CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - New federal funds will help dozens of homeless veterans in Charleston find a safe place to live this next year.
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development says they are awarding the Charleston Housing Authority with enough funds to care for 25 homeless veterans through the Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing program, or VASH.
With the additions, the housing authority says they will be helping a total of 330 veteran families with rent assistance.
Funding to support more local homeless veterans
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In public housing, a small debt can get poor tenants evicted
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Kandise Norris, shown here with her three children in a Nov. 7 photo outside their home in Somerset County, Maryland, says she has been rebuilding her life since getting treatment for drug addiction in April 2019.
CRISFIELD, Md. (AP) Public housing is supposed to be a solution to homelessness, not a cause of it.
But in Crisfield, a city of 2,600 on the Chesapeake Bay, the housing authority is one of the leading eviction filers. It files cases against tenants so often that officials hired a contractor to automate the process.
The agency owns just 330 units yet filed 718 times in 2019, all over late rent. In nearly 30% of those cases, records show, tenants owed less than $100.
In public housing, a small debt can get poor tenants evicted
by Bryan Gallion, Maya Pottiger, Kara Newhouse, Ryan Little, Trisha Ahmed, Jenna Pierson, Anastazja Kolodziej And Allison Mollenkamp / The Howard Center For Investigative Journalism, University Of Maryland, The Associated Press
Posted Dec 18, 2020 9:02 am EDT
Last Updated Dec 18, 2020 at 9:14 am EDT
Kandise Norris, shown here with her three children in a Nov. 7 photo outside their home in Somerset County, Maryland, says she has been rebuilding her life since getting treatment for drug addiction in April 2019. The Housing Authority of Crisfield, Maryland, which owns her house, has filed three eviction cases against the 30-year-old since September. (Nick McMillan/Howard Center for Investigative Journalism via AP)