High Demand For Affordable Housing Leaves Homeless People With Even Fewer Options

Arlington TX

21 April, 2022

6:37 PM

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By Sandra Sadek, Fort Worth Report April 20, 2022 Marlana Campbell can't bring herself to tell her two daughters they don't have a home. The 45-year-old Waco native received her third rental assistance voucher but has yet to find accommodations for her and her daughters, who are 9 and 11. Instead of telling them their application was denied, she tells her daughters that they are still waiting to hear back. "I just try to keep them going with 'We're gonna get better.' But there isn't really too much you can tell them. You don't put your burdens on your kids, you just deal with it within yourself and just carry on. That's the only thing we can do," Campbell said. Campbell is one of many struggling to find affordable housing. An influx of people relocating to Fort Worth has sparked a hot housing market, where demand has sharply outpaced supply and housing prices have skyrocketed. Such a market squeezes out those using rental assistance to find housing and break the cycle of chronic homelessness. To read the full article, click here. Fort Worth Report is a nonpartisan, nonprofit news organization that produces factual, in-depth journalism about city and county government, schools, healthcare, business, and arts and culture in Tarrant County. Always free to read; subscribe to newsletters, read coverage or support our newsroom at fortworthreport.org.