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Dhan Subedi flipped through sheets of apartment listings on Thursday, 15 days before the deadline for her four-person household to vacate Glenbrook Apartments . She’d circled and called the most affordable units in Boise. The earliest one would be available was Oct. 15, nearly a week after her deadline to leave a one-bedroom, $575-a-month apartment. Her 13-month-old son, Kaden, rolled around the floor at the feet of her mother, Mina Subedi. The families of both Dhan and her husband, Prem Subba, are Bhutanese, though Dhan was born during her family’s two-decade stay at a refugee camp in Nepal. Subba’s was one of thousands of Nepalese- speaking families evicted from the country. Located at the corner of South Curtis Road and Cassia Street, the family’s sparse Glenbrook unit is close to the Boise Airport, where Subba works, and State Street, where Subedi works at a market. It’s also close to the former Boise International Market , where the couple owned the Bhutanese and Nepali grocery...

On the morning that Alfonso Maldonado Silva was set to argue his first case before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in Pasadena, Ca., he was too nervous to even drink a glass of juice for breakfast. So he decided to head to court early to review the case one last time. He said a short prayer asking for wisdom, then he showered, dressed in a neatly pressed gray suit , and on an overcast morning last April, headed out the door with his evidence binder in hand. He had been up since 5 a.m. Maldonado, a third- year law student at Western State College of Law in Orange County, had left nothing to chance. This would be his first time arguing a case in court before any judge. So he had arrived the night before to stay in a Pasadena hotel to avoid the clogged commute from his Corona apartment during rush-hour. The only thing on the 28-year-old’s mind was the law. Much was riding on this case. Maldonado and his fellow law student , Cristel Martinez Medina , were representing an undocumente...

Chicago , 2211. The towers are taller. The apartments are smaller. The El has become the tube. Pho is the breakfast of choice. Communication happens mainly through screens, albeit floating holographic screens . Five teen-agers have been assigned to the City Planning Council for a year of public service . Their first assignment is to decide on the future of the Uptown Theatre, a white terra- cotta movie palace that seats four thousand and, in 2211 as in 2017, needs to be adapted into something new. ( Regina Spektor filmed her “Black and White” video there.) After a tense meeting, three of them decide to go to see the theatre, and the Uptown neighborhood, for themselves. “We really want a space to facemeet, instead of screening all the time,” one teen says. “I was wrong to think I could make a planning council decision from up in my apartment,” another says. Will Uptown get the server farm/performance venue it wants, or just more condos? Such is the cliffhanger ending of “No Small Pl...

Kids in low- income neighborhoods tend to change schools more often than their peers. And studies show that can have a detrimental effect on their education. So this past year, one public school in Atlanta tried to break the trend — by providing families with lawyers. At Thomasville Heights Elementary School , in southeast Atlanta , Christal Reynolds and Ayanna Jones-Lightsy have just started their day. Reynolds, a community advocate, is already on the phone. She’s talking to a parent who needs her apartment windows replaced . “If you can today, call that repair line,” she said. “And please ask for a confirmation number.” Meanwhile, Jones-Lightsy, an attorney, pulls a stack of documents out of a file cabinet. She said, they’re apartment building inspections acquired through an open records request . “We requested a lot to go back and do comparisons,” Jones-Lightsy said, “what they claimed has been fixed and may not have been fixed, and what has actually been fixed.” Jones-Lightsy a...

Jennifer Lopez The property is a very nice place to live. The community is also very nice and always willing to help with any of my needs. The only recommendation I would make is adding central air to the units. … more » The property is a very nice place to live. The community is also very nice and always willing to help with any of my needs. The only recommendation I would make is adding central air to the units. Jacob Kushan I have lived at EP for three years now and have really enjoyed my time. It is a very nice place to live, I would reccomend it. … more » I have lived at EP for three years now and have really enjoyed my time. It is a very nice place to live, I would reccomend it. Business Response: Jacob, thank you for your feedback. We strive to have loyal residents who genuinely enjoy their living experience and we are so happy that you do! Heaven Henry Love how they have resident appreciation events such as waffle Wednesday and donut Friday. Love how safe I always f...