But now the bill is coming due Young Kwak photo Deseray Hendrickson owes $4,000 in back rent to Spokane Housing Ventures, the owner of the 55th Avenue Apartments. But she s not the only one. The low-income housing provider has been grappling with $450,000 in unpaid rent.
Like most tenants, Amy March has her complaints about the place she s renting. There s the bathroom sink, broken for over a year, that s forced her family to wash their hands in the bathtub instead. There was a busted pipe that flooded their basement for three days. There are the complete addicts living nearby. Yet, for all this, what really scares her is that she and her family might be forced to leave. She knows what the alternative is. The 40-year-old has lived it.