Near Riot at Palm Beach County Housing Authority
A sign of the times…….and I don’t see how it’s going to get better. Unemployment up, wages down, home foreclosures, people maxing out credit cards to live, gas at 3.50 a gallon (here anyway), prices are sure to go up due to cost of gas…….. when is this gonna end?
In a sign of the desperation facing Palm Beach County’s poor, hundreds, maybe thousands, descended on the housing authority here Wednesday for a chance to get on a waiting list for subsidized housing.
The wait nearly turned ugly when housing officials told hundreds still on line shortly after 9 a.m. that they had only enough applications left for the disabled. The crowd surged forward toward the entrance, almost crushing mothers with children and people in wheelchairs, said Judith Aigen, Boca Raton Housing Authority executive director.
“I think a riot was about to happen,” she said.
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