Passion Paris and Amber Fanning stood outside their apartments — among boarded-up and burned-out buildings — on a dreary January morning, trying to figure out what to do next.
The Olive Park Village residents had scrambled to find new places to live. They filled out housing assistance paperwork. They waited through the holidays for Department of Housing and Urban Development inspections that would let them escape the deplorable conditions at the apartment complex where they have lived for a combined 25 years.
That morning they got the call that their prospective new homes had failed inspection, which must pass before they can move. Facing a communicated deadline to vacate their current apartments in just four days, the two women were back where they started…