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Jason Edwards planned to call Marana Apartments home for many more years. In 2018, the single father moved into a modest three-bedroom unit there w...

April 21, 2023
10:02 PM

Jason Edwards planned to call Marana Apartments home for many more years. In 2018, the single father moved into a modest three-bedroom unit there with his two children, Zoey and Dwight, and their dog, Buddy. The two-story complex of roughly 80 units, which sits off Interstate 10 in the town of Marana about 20 miles northwest of Tucson, is right down the street from his children's schools, a public pool and a dog park. Rents were affordable, too. The complex was subsidized low-income housing, and Edwards, who describes himself as partially disabled, was told it would stay that way for years to come.

Juliette Rihl