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"); } if ($(imageDivId).length == 0) { $("#wrapper").after(contentText); } })(jQuery); BREMERTON, Wash. - Crystal Turner stood in the kitchen of her cramped apartment and stared at the cracks in the fake wood flooring beneath her feet. Surrounding her was the home she'd made for herself and her two sons in the past year, since they moved out of her Toyota Camry and into Admiral Manor, a low- rent apartment complex in west Bremerton . There was the single bedroom with two kids' beds on the floor. The living room she'd decorated with signs that said "Hope" and "Love." A dingy bathroom with a leaking toilet that had never been fixed. In this undated photo, Matthew Daigneault pushes his son Aden as he plays outside on the swings of his rental home in West Bremerton , Wash. (Larry Steagall/Kitsap Sun via AP) © 2017 Cox Media Group . Admiral Manor wasn 't the place Turner, a recovering addict, wanted to raise her boys. It was the place...

PORTLAND, Maine (NEWS CENTER) - Imagine you're a landlord going to examine your property after a longtime tenant moves out - and finding it destroyed. That's what a couple in Portland says happened to them on August 10. Normally landlord-tenant arguments would not be newsworthy - but in this case, it involves taxpayer dollars . The tenant was on Section 8 housing and renting through the Portland Housing Authority . Missing screens, broken windows, grease, animal urine, doors ripped off the hinges cigarette burns on the floor - this is just some of the damage you can find at 44 Sawyer Street, owned by landlords Paul and Cyndi Taylor. Found on the ground:   Cigarette burns on bedroom floor:   These sights greeted them after their tenant of 11 years moved out. The landlords say they had a no-smoking rule in the apartment. They also say the woman was allowed one cat, but had multiple dogs as well at one point. "I would come in[to the apartment] any day if there was a pr...

Linda Nelson still can’t believe her new apartment is real. For six weeks, she lived with her husband, twin babies and 2-year-old son in a cramped room at the West Wynn Motel after losing housing with a roommate in late June. “Me and Linda almost killed each other a couple times,” her husband, David Parisia, joked. The family is one of 24 that have moved into Pope Francis Haven , Catholic Charities ’ latest housing project for formerly homeless families. They sat on the lawn eating pizza after a grand opening ceremony Thursday . Though their last bout of homelessness only lasted a few weeks, Nelson and Parisia have been without permanent housing for most of the eight years they’ve been together. Two years ago, they were able to get clean, stop using drugs and begin trying to find a place to live. “We found roommate after roommate,” Nelson said. The couple would stay somewhere for as long as they could, but never had a lease in their name or a place to call their own. In time, the c...