Personal tales take center stage at Anne Arundel County executive housing forum
Chantel Seetram, a mother of two adult children, believed Anne Arundel County was going to be her “start-over place” after moving from Baltimore following significant trauma her family experienced there.
“It’s been difficult,” she said at the Michael E. Busch Annapolis Library Thursday. “Whether it’s jobs not understanding I had a child to take care of and get to therapy three times a week … I kept losing jobs,” she said. “When it came to my housing, that was affected. I have had an eviction notice before and the process is very, very difficult.”
Hers was just one of the stories that put the stakes of Anne Arundel County’s affordable housing crisis on full display at a county executive candidate forum Thursday.
Three of the four Democrats running for executive were at the forum hosted by the Anne Arundel Affordable Housing Coalition: Councilmember Allison M. Pickard, Councilmember Peter Smith, and James Kitchin, the longtime staffer to the current County Executive Steuart Pittman (D).
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