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Jared Kofsky/ABC News(NEW YORK) In Platte County, Missouri, the signs of growth are on almost every corner, with new apartment buildings and shopping centers becoming a common sight. Yet signs for affordable housing remain few and far between. "There s still this perception that Platte County is a rich community and that there s no poverty in Platte County, which couldn t be further from the truth," said Becky Poitras of the Metro Lutheran Ministry. Over the last decade, typical rents in Platte have risen 30 percent, pricing out residents whose income hasn t kept up, according to an ABC News analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data. As rents have risen, so too have wait times for subsidized housing: County residents placed in public housing in 2012 had waited two years on average. Last year, residents receiving housing had waited nearly twice as long. "There are waiting lists that are so long that people don t bother applying, and then sometimes, the waiting lists aren

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