Apartment City

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...

Two U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development top management representatives from the Birmingham, Ala., field office spent Tuesday afternoon listening to residents’ concerns at a Phenix City low - income apartment complex . Their site visit to Stonewood Apartments off 28th Avenue was sparked by a video posted to YouTube last month that shows a former resident manager berating , cursing and threatening to evict a handicapped tenant who was complaining about a faulty refrigerator. HUD Program Center Director Donna Crane and Chief Project Manager for Multifamily Housing Jalon Rush - Carter began meeting with residents during the lunch hour. They declined to comment, but said this was not a scheduled visit. The HUD representatives referred all questions to the Birmingham office , which did not respond Tuesday to an email seeking comment . The HUD investigation into the management of Stonewood, which has 50 federally- subsidized serving elderly and handicapped residents , ...