Disrepair, Housing Violations, Foreclosure Threaten Elderly Buffalo Homeowners
According to the article, there are no statistics available on how many local senior citizens have lost their houses because they cannot pay for repairs, but staff members for Buffalo nonprofit groups say the problem is prevalent — and may even be growing.
One staff attorney at the non profit law firm Legal Services for the Elderly, Disabled, or Disadvantaged of Western New York, has just started handling housing violation cases for the organization's clients. She says that her clients come to her terrified.
At Old 1st Ward Community Center, a Buffalo non profit that administers grants for home repairs, it reports that it has a waiting list of more than 90 people — more than half of them senior citizens.
For more, see Cost of upkeep puts older residents at risk of losing homes (Maintenance, loss of insurance put senior citizens at brink of foreclosure).
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