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Families find home on campus (part 3 of 3)
On-campus residents of OSU family housing work to create a home and a community out of resources available
Amanda Robbins
Issue date: 3/14/07 Section: News
"It is just a safe and happy place to live," he said. "Our children are like sponges. They pick up on all these experiences that they could never have if we were not students."
Some of the other advantages to living in the on-campus family housing include it only being five minutes from campus and having a bus that stops at the apartments.
"It is nice that all of our kids go to the same school so they all get on the bus together," Karbowski said. "It makes us feel like a community."
Karbowski also enjoys being around people at are experiencing the same things, like school.
"Everyone here has a very high IQ," he said. "It is a super smart community."
Sophia Scott, a single mother of 5-year-old Michael chose to go a different route for housing. She decided to look for a place for her and Michael to live off campus.
"I found this place myself," she said about her apartment on Northeast Lancaster Street.
When Scott arrived at OSU, she knew she needed help. She went to the Community Services Consortium, which is located on Second Street.
"The Community Services Consortium is a nonprofit community action agency that develops, manages and provides services and support to individuals and families who lack sufficient financial resources to meet their basic needs or to provide the kind of quality life they desire," according to their Web site.
They helped her find a place to live that was affordable. She now lives in Oak Crest Family Housing.
"I only pay $43 a month for this place," she said. "I qualified for help because I have a dependant and because we are a low income family."
The $43 only includes her rent, water and sewage so she still has to pay for phone, electricity, Internet and television, but the discounted rent helps her a lot.
"This is the best place we have lived," Karbowski said. "We are a very family-oriented community."
Some of the other advantages to living in the on-campus family housing include it only being five minutes from campus and having a bus that stops at the apartments.
"It is nice that all of our kids go to the same school so they all get on the bus together," Karbowski said. "It makes us feel like a community."
Karbowski also enjoys being around people at are experiencing the same things, like school.
"Everyone here has a very high IQ," he said. "It is a super smart community."
Sophia Scott, a single mother of 5-year-old Michael chose to go a different route for housing. She decided to look for a place for her and Michael to live off campus.
"I found this place myself," she said about her apartment on Northeast Lancaster Street.
When Scott arrived at OSU, she knew she needed help. She went to the Community Services Consortium, which is located on Second Street.
"The Community Services Consortium is a nonprofit community action agency that develops, manages and provides services and support to individuals and families who lack sufficient financial resources to meet their basic needs or to provide the kind of quality life they desire," according to their Web site.
They helped her find a place to live that was affordable. She now lives in Oak Crest Family Housing.
"I only pay $43 a month for this place," she said. "I qualified for help because I have a dependant and because we are a low income family."
The $43 only includes her rent, water and sewage so she still has to pay for phone, electricity, Internet and television, but the discounted rent helps her a lot.
"This is the best place we have lived," Karbowski said. "We are a very family-oriented community."
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