“Every day I get dozen upon dozen calls of people sobbing to me, asking, ‘Is there anything available?’ ‘Is there anything?’ ‘Please, can I rent? I need something. I’m about to be evicted. I’m going to be homeless. I need anything you can give to me,’” Oliver Merritt, a rental coordinator for the Denton Affordable Housing Corporation, told the Denton City Council during last week’s meeting.
“Every day, I have to tell people, ‘I’m so sorry. We do not have anything available. We do not have any units that are coming open because it is all full,’” Merritt said. “We do not have the ability to make more right now because the regulations are so strict.”
Merritt was joined by several other residents who spoke last week during a public hearing to demand that council members pass amendments to the development code that would relax restrictions and incentivize affordable housing in Denton…