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...

City of Boisespokesperson Mike Journee says there were red flags around what's been going on at the Glenbrook Apartments during construction. (Photo: Mary Kienzle/KTVB) BOISE - Hundreds were forced out of the Glenbrook Apartments in Boise last fall - the experience leaving those tenants confused and frustrated. "One day I discovered I am without home," former Glenbrook tenant and Iraqi refugee Tamara Al Thanoon told KTVB. Many refugees were among those told to leave their homes and given 30 days notice to find a new place to live in a city they were still unfamiliar with. It was because the property owner s were going to remodel the apartment complex and raise rent by hundreds of dollars. RELATED : Hundreds of refugees forced out of Boise apartments But KTVB found out on Friday that those plans were just halted by the city of Boise. City spokesperson Mike Journee  says there were red flags around what's been going on at the apartment complex during construction. Whe...