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...

Several Boise area students helped families move to their new homes. (Photo: Deren Martinez/KTVB) BOISE -- The trash bins were overflowing. Boxes, trash bags and laundry baskets were piled into cars. The 30- day notice period is up for people forced to leave their Glenbrook Apartment. "I lived two years here, at this apartment," said Abdirahmaan Awil Khaire , a refugee living at Glenbrook, "I like it here, but I move." A new owner bought the Glenbrook Apartments and plans to renovate them. Early September, people living there on month-to-month leases were given 30- day notices terminating their tenancy. Many residents are refugees. Hundreds of refugees forced out of Boise apartments "I thought it was really unfair for these people," said Jace DeGrange, a Centennial High School senior . For families moving Saturday , there was a little extra help. The Agape Youth in Action group and several high school football players teamed up with Katie Seide, a you...