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Now, she and her lawyers are looking to cover the costs that the non-profit has still not paid. “They kicked us out of our house four days before Christmas, and me and my kids were out on the street at a city bus stop sleeping at a bus stop,” said Clarissa Basquez Lopez.
She said she and her three children were evicted from their apartment in December of last year. “It was awful, it was scary, it was tormenting, it was just a not place my kids should not be. They should at home decorating a Christmas tree,” said Basquez Lopez.
She is just one of the people affected because the nonprofit that was supposed to pay their rent under the housing voucher program paid late, or not at all. Last year the City of Albuquerque declined to renew a contract with that nonprofit, Supportive Housing Coalition New Mexico, over mismanagement of funds…