The odds weren’t Powerball-crazy and the prize wouldn’t make her rich, but V. Raffini was very lucky last August to be one of fifty — out of more than 1,000 people who applied — to snag an affordable rental at the Sankofa Apartments.
“It was by the grace of God that I got on the list at the right time,” she says, sitting at her kitchen table. “I was finding horrible places for the rent I could afford.”