Dorm-Style Housing Being Built For Reno’s Working Poor
“Among the people hit hardest by Reno’s affordable housing crunch are the city’s lowest income residents. Rising rents are often pushing people out of apartments or motels and onto to the street. But now, in downtown Reno, there’s a project to create a new safety net. Right off Sage Street, tucked in between railroad tracks and the highway, is a long strip of land. It’s rocky, and industrial. Bushes grow here and there, and there are a few signs that say ‘warning: petroleum pipeline.’ But in the next couple of months, Jim Pfrommer says that’s all going to change.”