GREENSBORO -- Angela Jones shows us a picture of her kids -- the reason she moved to Greensboro almost four years ago. She said it took a few months to find affordable housing.
"Anyone would want to stay someplace nice and decent and clean. Not lots of crime. Just comfortable, an awesome landlord, somebody you can get along with, nice neighbors, everything," said Angela Jones, a Berryman Square resident.
Jones resides at Berryman Square, the most recent affordable housing complex in town to go through a rehabilitation. Now, Affordable Housing Management is starting a new project off Old Randleman Road.
"We're going to be building 72 units of affordable apartment homes that will consist of one, two, and three bedroom units," said David Levy, the Affordable Housing Management executive director.
Crews broke ground on the $9 million Sumner Ridge community a few weeks ago. All Energy Star certified apartments in a complex with a laundry center, fitness center, and a playground. Affordable Housing officials won some 2015 Federal Housing Tax Credits to help fund it.
"We find a syndicator to purchase those tax credits, and the purchase of those tax credits counts for approximately 70 percent of what it's going to cost to develop this," said Levy.
Rent at Sumner Ridge is set on a multi-level scale ranging from $237 to $705 a month. Jones believes the new complex will help other families in the situations similar to hers to live a better life.
"It's not easy. Putting in applications, going from apartment to apartment, people showing you their apartments. You just have to have patience and take that time and hope and pray that you find something lovely and nice to live in," said Jones.
Clearing the way to putting a happy home within reach for everyone.
The first set of the Sumner Ridge apartments should be ready for move-in next June.