In the sweltering Saturday afternoon heat, Jackson Mayor John Horhn stood in the parking lot of the deteriorating Blossom Apartments listening to tenant Chante Vaxter explain why a five-day eviction window isn’t enough.
Vaxter, who uses an electric wheelchair, told him that moving takes longer than city officials and aid agencies seem to realize, especially for someone with mobility challenges and enough belongings “to fill a house.”
“I feel like I’m homeless, I ain’t got nowhere to go,” Vaxter told Horhn. “People gotta find storage, you gotta find money to pay for storage because you just can’t move overnight, this is not an overnight thing.”…