Available Housing Network Wants Kids to Feel Safe at Home.
NEW YORK (PRWEB) March 15, 2006
Finding affordable housing when you’re poor is a difficult task. Finding safe affordable housing can be next to impossible.
America is facing a severe housing shortage, with available apartments in safe residential communities becoming more and more rare. Property owners and management firms go to tremendous effort to provide safe environments for there residents, and we at ApartmenTime.com want to hear from those who benefit the most from these efforts — the children.
At one point it was believed that crime and drug use were problems that affected only low-income housing communities in urban areas, but with widespread crystal meth and crack cocaine use escalating in rural areas, low-income housing communities are facing the same issues as those in America’s cities.
Low-income housing community long plagued with crime problems, now faces new issues because of the crystal meth epidemic. What once were beautiful playgrounds and picnic areas are now littering grounds where children routinely find discarded drug paraphernalia, including drug-laced plastic bags and used syringes strewn about dangerously where children play.
Management firms are taking extraordinary steps to rid its grounds of these dangers. With increased security, neighborhood watch groups and widespread evictions as well as teaming up with local drug support groups, it is hoped that these combined efforts will bring safety to community residents.
All across the country property owners are taking steps such as these to provide safe housing for all, and it’s time they started to share what works with other owners.
To help launch ApartmenTime.com’s new Available Housing Network, ApartmenTime.com wants children all across the country to write in and tell them: “What makes me feel safe at home?”
Children are encouraged to write a 500-word essay and send it into ApartmenTime.com along with a picture of themselves and their community. One essay will be selected from each state and posted online for property owners to review.
Darren Rogers, President of ApartmenTime.com, says, “What makes this contest great is that we’re not just looking for stories about what’s wrong with residential communities. Yes, we do want those as well, but we also want the stories about what’s right. We want the stories about what one property manager is doing to make a difference but not from the parents’ point of view; we want it from the children.”
ApartmenTime.com will begin accepting letters on Friday, March 17th. Children can go to ApartmenTime.com/ahn and create their essay online, or they can mail it to ApartmenTime.com / care of GP Clarke, 167 Lexington Avenue, New York, New York 10016.
“We hope to receive many, many letters from children all over the country,” Mr. Rogers says. “If we get the response we expect we’re going to look into turning them into a book, with the proceeds going toward providing computer labs in Affordable Housing Communities.
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