Donyelle Ashton and her family were displaced from their home in New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. After moving several times, they have finally found a safe, comfortable spot to call home in a rental community in Monroe, Louisiana, financed with Low Income Housing Tax Credits from the Louisiana Housing Finance Agency. Donyelle has been in the community for over a year now, and lives there with her six children.
“It's been a long time since we’ve been in a house, as opposed to very cramped apartments and townhouses, and just having the space to let the children run around has been good for their self-esteem.”
“We moved to Monroe back in 2005 and we were in a hotel for a while after we moved from New Orleans. If you can imagine all of us, it was four children back then, but we couldn’t move, or breathe—everyone was always in a bad mood.”
“The neighborhood is quiet and nice, there hasn’t been any kind of unusual problems, and it’s just a happy neighborhood. Kids running around, playing, riding their bikes…It’s been good.”
“I’m finally at a point where I think we have a nice, stable place to live. Now I feel confident that when my children come home, they know this is home, and this will be their home for several years to come.”
To learn more about Louisiana Housing Finance Agency, please visit their website.
For more information on Housing Credits, see our advocacy page.
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