A St. Louis woman's dream of better housing is lost to illness, crippling bureaucracy
This story was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center.
The Georgian Apartments, a newly renovated apartment complex near Lafayette Square, promotes itself as welcoming, safe and secure.
Kim Daniel would go much further than that. To her, it is the Promised Land.
After waiting 10 years, Daniel had in hand a Section 8 housing voucher late last summer. It would provide the means for her to move from her increasingly violent surroundings in the Preservation Square neighborhood north of downtown to the safer, more economically and ethnically diverse Lafayette Square neighborhood where the Georgian sits.
She wouldn’t have to wander the desert for 40 years to get there. The Georgian complex is just a 10-minute drive from Preservation Square, nearly a straight shot south down Tucker Boulevard.
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