I live in an apartment building run by HACSA, a county agency, which is mainly financed by federal funds. It took two years on a waiting list, 11 years ago, to get in here. I'm told the waiting list is now more like 5 years. We pay around 30 percent of our income -- mine is from Social Security -- in rent. ALL of the people who live here are very low income, many are old, like me, or have some kind of disability. 

Those below 65 and capable of working are required to be in a program that will eventually enable them to work, if not now. Some of them do have jobs. 

I believe HACSA does consider things like age and disability when choosing people from the waiting list to live here. It would be cruel to kick anyone out just because someone else has even bigger problems.

The real problem is that Eugene does not have nearly enough subsidized housing, nor "affordable" housing for those a little further up the food chain. The city does not seem to consider that a priority.