Full article by Casey Murray at The Sacramento Observer
To most, Coko Marie’s apartment complex looks fairly mundane. Litter dots the green spaces and things are a bit rundown.
To Marie, the apartment is nearly a miracle.
The single mother of four, with another child on the way, lives in an affordable housing complex in Sacramento. Just months ago, the family lived in a one-bedroom unit at a different complex.
“The house was really bad. They had a lot of rats outside and a lot of bugs around the house. I want to say the unit next to me had a lot of mold,” she said. “These are things that (the landlord) wasn’t really trying to treat.”
But the family stayed, for years, because local rents began to skyrocket.