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Last week, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development ordered a halt to the sale of the Driftwood Apartment complex in Wilmington. The sale process threatens to displace vulnerable, disabled residents, and caught local and state officials off guard.
Driftwood Apartments is a 14-unit complex, dedicated to formerly homeless residents with disabilities. It’s privately owned, and managed by
Letter received by Driftwood residents.
Credit Benjamin Schachtman
Susan Harris says she’s lived at Driftwood for fifteen years. She says WHFD gave her less than a month to vacate. Harris says she currently has a lease that doesn t expire until May.
Financial difficulties led to a housing development being up for sale and 12 formerly homeless individuals are faced with finding a new home.
After 16 years a Wilmington supportive housing development Driftwood Apartments is going up for sale. The apartment complex contains 12 units for chronically homeless persons with disabilities.
Now they are being displaced.
Florena Fields has been living at Driftwood for a year. Prior to living at Driftwood, she faced sporadic periods of homelessness throughout the last few years.
That s why when Fields heard the buildings were being sold, she couldn t believe it. It was just shocking, Fields said. I have nowhere to go.