LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) - Lexington city leaders are helping finance more affordable housing units, especially for older adults.

WKYT Investigates revisits a problem we dug into two years ago, to see what’s changing in the fight for more affordable housing.

“I’ve been on the phone for the last week, I mean constantly, trying to figure out ways to try to help get in a better place,” says Jim Boggs. He’s trying to help his mother move. Her lease is up on the home where she’s spent the last ten years. “They gave her notice and she told me and I was like, ‘No, this is not right because she’s 70 years old, she’s blind, she’s disabled.”

New ownership raised rent to a price that Boggs’s mother worries may not be covered by her disability check.

Housing Advocacy Commissioner Charlie Lanter says

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