Complications delaying David's Adult Program/Complicaciones que retrasan el programa para adultos de David

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Lo siento que no tengo tiempo hoy para traducir a espanol hoy.
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In my post of July 31, I expressed my disappointment at living for weeks on end out of packed boxes, prepared to move overnight at a moment's notice into our promised new apartment that still hasn't materialized.

Funny how disappointment goes, though...sometimes bad things happen for a good reason...

David and I received some interesting news from the manager at the premiere low income housing development of our city, upon whose wait list David has sat since 2017. I thought the wait for one of their high quality two bedroom units would be at least another two-to-three years, but according to the manager, David's name will rise to the top sometime in 2019.

That's great!

However, it leaves us with significant decisions to make regarding our where to live until then.

• To review, our current apartment is not a "great sell" to those we had hoped would replace me as David's roommate, so we were planning to move to a nice, modern home, pleasant enough to attract the pickiest** of potential roommates.We're certain that by late summer 2019, David will find someone who qualifies financially to be happy sharing an apartment with him. As soon as that lease is up, I move out, and the new roommate moves in.
• There's a catch, though. That new apartment in the non-premiere (but better than current housing) situation has a year-long lease. If the premiere apartment comes available before that lease is up, we pay exorbitant costs in lease-break fees. 
• Month to month agreements are nearly unheard of in Davis, but our current apartment is on a month to month agreement. If we stay here until the premiere place becomes available, we can move out when we wish without paying fees.

A redeeming feature of our current, less-than-ideal home.
Good lessons for David that, in life, every dream has its cost.



** While it's true that we lost a couple potential roommate because they were too "picky" to live in David's current, less-comfortable apartment (wall heater instead of central heat, etc). Hundreds of UC Davis students would pay truckloads of money for any place to live in our too-small city, but tax credit housing is denied to full time students. Some low-income, non-students wanted to live here, too, despite this apartment's issues, but the FHA has so many restrictions, and they failed to qualify.

(Because "affordable housing" is not allowed in Davis for full time college students, David and I were forced into outrageously expensive market price housing during David's graduate school years. To afford it, I slept in the living room of a one bedroom apartment. Personally, for all its faults, I love our crummy, old apartment because, at fifty-eight years old, I cherish having my own room).
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