States scramble to shore up loss of low-cost housing

States scramble to shore up loss of low-cost housing

By Jesse Bedayn and Arushi Gupta | The Associated Press For more than two decades, the low rent on Marina Maalouf’s apartment in a blocky affordable housing development in Los Angeles’ Chinatown was a saving grace for her family, including a granddaughter who has autism. But that grace had an expiration date. For Maalouf and…