Circumstances change

and waiting. There were two appointments the next day. One was at the Willamette Estates at 9 AM for a tour of a one-bedroom apartment and the other was at the Salem Housing Authority (SHA) at 11 AM to complete the rest of the paperwork for the housing choice voucher. The transfer of the housing choice voucher from Klamath Falls to Salem. Which is called porting from one city to the next. And if the porting client city does not have a housing choice voucher to offer in the city where the client is porting to the client’s city where the client is coming from has to foot the bill of the new transferred choice voucher to the new city.

This trip this time was for one night only to tour a possible one-bedroom apartment with two weeks free rent and no deposit to move in the Williamette Estates. The only other requirement was an application fee of $59.00. Apartment and housing application fees can add up if a person has to pay an application fee at each of the apartments or housing, they are searching and wanting to check out and rent in the future. It adds to the cost of moving from one place to the next. But moving from one city to next adds even more to the cost of moving from one city to the next relocating to a new city. The expenses can add up quickly in the porting process from one city to the next when porting from one city to the next with a housing choice voucher. Along with all the paperwork involved to make it all happen. Not an easy task for everyone involved in the process. The client, the past landlord, the new landlord and the porting out and the porting in cites.

It would be nice if everyone was on the same page in the process of porting from one city to the next. Which presently isn’t the way it works. There have been time delays in getting answers from the choice voucher cities. The porting out city and the porting in city do not seem to communicate with each other in the process of a client moving from one city to the next. It’s as if the porting out cities and porting in cities are strangers and have no contact with each other except for the client as the go between the parties and that includes the past landlords and new landlords as well.