Papers, please....

Read it and consider that ACLU membership you've always thought you might get. Or at least a donation.

http://www.papersplease.org/davis/index.html
( Meet Deborah Davis )

Rent Snafus Plague Hurricane Evacuees

I'm about to put this link on the ULW web site, so thought I'd post it here as well. Richard Troxell, the activist who encouraged the formation of the ULW Campaign, says this is "A nightmare about to happen..."

"Only $114 a month stands between Shawn Williams, a Hurricane Katrina evacuee, and eviction from her temporary apartment in suburban Houston. Williams can afford to pay out of her own pocket and is willing to do so to make up the difference between the $633 voucher she gets in federal housing aid and the apartment's $747 rent. But a bureaucratic snag prevents her from closing the gap on her own.

Now, after paying the entire rent herself for months because the landlord cannot accept the voucher, Williams says she is running out of money and fears losing the two-bedroom apartment where she has lived with her disabled husband and teenage son since fleeing New Orleans more than two months ago."
( Are we ready for another 40,000 homeless in Texas? )

The problem is particularly prevalent in Texas, where landlords are beginning the eviction process against evacuees, some of whom have been unable to pay rent for the past two months.

"I have a lot of residents who are very angry with me," said Kirk Tate of Orion Real Estate Services in Houston, who manages about 16,000 apartment units in Texas. "But we may wake up six, seven months down the road and we would still have this."

Recipe for writing fiction

Pinched from Beth Bernobich

Cat Paradise

The shift in the weather is finally here. I was too exhausted to post when we had our first “Blue Norther”, but I’m back now.
( Weather and other phenomenon )

I love autumn. The light is finally soft, like the northern light I learned to paint by. It may hit 80 again on Tuesday, but for now, the Fall is upon us.