About 200 Afghanis and Syrians were settled into the Enclave Apartments, Oak Leaf Drive in White Oak, with promises of financial and counseling support in an effort to thank them for their service as allies to America.
The financial support has ended as has Montgomery County’s efforts to work out a financial compromise with the complex’s management concerning back rent.
Many of them now face eviction.
In a “disappointing update” Thursday, Christine Hong, chief of the county’s homelessness efforts, said that the management was unwilling to provide reductions in back rent amounts.
Therefore, she told councilmembers, “We are looking to relocate them. It’s very disappointing.”
When they are housed together in the same complex, they share childcare responsibilities, help with shopping and even pray together, Hong said. However, she explained, the county won’t be able to find them places to relocate altogether. Many of them have large families with eight to 10 children, she noted.
“We are all very troubled about that,” she said.
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