During the last year, 150 Tucson veterans have faced unaffordable rents — and that number continues to grow.
Patty Machelor Pima County's veterans are finding fewer rental options here, and about 150 have been displaced in the last year because they couldn't afford where they were living.Hoban, 75, lives at The Place at Wilmot North, a 55-and-older complex that includes veterans using federal housing vouchers through the Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing program. HUD-VASH, as it's commonly called, pairs rental assistance with case management to help veterans stay housed.
People are also reading… “The only way I can continue to live here is if the housing authority grants me a waiver and allows me to pay the overage, which I can do,” Hoban said. “It will be a great hardship but I could do that, and that would be preferable to having to move in an area with a gross shortage of affordable housing.”
The Southern Arizona Veterans Administration Health Care System has around 53 staff helping veterans find and maintain housing. It is not clear if some of the veterans recently displaced all found new places to live, or if some have become homeless. Kozachik said most of the people he hears from live in rental properties owned by corporations not based in Tucson, or even in Arizona. He has not been successful in getting them to ease up on rental increases.
Hoban said some of his neighbors are not facing the same rental increases, which makes him wonder if the goal is phasing out tenants who get assistance.Allen is also a veteran at the complex and, in September, it will be six years since he moved in. He's anxious to see if his rent is also going to increase. He currently pays $360 toward his rent, and that's a third of his income.
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