It used to be that the “bait and switch” was the favorite tactic of the car salesman: You’re ready to take the keys in hand, and then suddenly discover extra cost added on at the last minute. 

This is exactly what Gorman & Co has done to the would-be tenants of the newly completed Vista Verde II. As ones who read the lead article in Oct. 8 Summit Daily News, we were shocked that this could happen to our workforce who were meant to benefit from affordable housing. How horrible, having already loaded the U’Haul, to show up expecting to be handed over the keys only then to find out that the rent had been recalculated and raised an excessive amount based on overtime hours because of short staffing at the workplace and even in one instance of a student’s college financial aid!  

It’s just not right — after you’ve been approved & the rent as been set — to find as you’re ready to pick up the keys that you now have to pay between $500 or $1,000 more for subsidized housing. These are low-income workers to begin with. The local housing authority must fire Gorman & Co. and hire a management firm that gets it right.