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residents
Jubilee Housing provides affordable housing to over 850 individuals who have low incomes. Jubilee's residents are 58 percent Black, 33 percent Latino and 9 percent report other racial origins. While the median household income in Ward I is a healthy $52,649 -- significantly above the national average, Jubilee Housing’s residents primarily fall into the category of low to very low wage earners. In fact, more than two-thirds earn less than 30 percent Area Median Income (half of this population earns less than 20 percent Area Median Income!)
The majority of Jubilee Housing’s residents are employed predominately in the essential low-wage service sector. Residents work as teacher’s aides, cooks and dishwashers, parking attendants, in sanitation and housekeeping, as home health workers and in other similar indispensable jobs that provide the workforce supporting our nation’s service economy. Portraits of Jubilee Housing’s many residents include:
- Elderly seniors on a limited fixed income, some of whom have lived a long stable life in Jubilee, making it their home for a number of years;
- Recent immigrants, for which Jubilee is their first real home and who will most likely move onward and upward after a few years of getting their feet on the ground;
- Single mothers with children, many escaping abusive situations;
- Men and women with or without children, who are on the road to recovery from past abusive or problem situations; and
- Families who earn very low incomes and may have limited prospects for real upward mobility, but who are stable citizens, working consistently, staying off welfare and out of public housing.
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Letha Foskey
Residence: The Euclid
Resident Since: 1976
Letha has been a resident in the Euclid building since it was originally bought by Jubilee Housing in the 1970's.
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