Florida renters scramble for shelter as affordable housing erodes
“Jami’s income on disability was fixed at $1,200 a month. Her husband, Shane, 50, worked long hours in construction.
It was tight, but they could make it work. They didn’t have much choice.
Jami and Shane were new to town, so they hadn’t seen the changes recent years had wrought on the city. Older buildings like this one were slowly disappearing, replaced by luxury apartments with pools and common rooms with marble counters, where a one-bedroom would go for nearly four times what some residents here, at the Stanton Apartments, were paying.”