In Sunset Park, Demise of Affordable Units Feared

For anyone that's been trying to move out of Kenmore Hall, the following article is a familiar story. It's getting harder to find housing that accepts Section 8 in neighborhoods that are reasonably safe. Sunset Park was one of the areas I'd been looking at myself because it's familiar (I used to live one neighborhood over). When staff and management are confronted by tenants regarding making policy changes, repairs, or reassigning rooms, the standard response has become a variation of "if you don't like it here, why don't you move out?" That's what some of us are doing. But it takes time, and we're still entitled to a decent standard of living while we're here.

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Hundreds of apartments covered by Section 8—key anchors in a neighborhood where affordability is threatened by gentrification—are slated to leave the program

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