In recovery from methamphetamine and with a mind toward starting anew, Ambrose Haynes spent six months on housing waitlists.
He hoped for a voucher he could use to subsidize the rent on an apartment, or a spot in a regulated apartment building where rents are capped at rates affordable to people with low incomes.
But he barely heard back from waitlist administrators, he said. Eager to get on with his life, and his dreams of earning a college degree and starting a family, he gave up on affordable housing and turned to the open market…