To the editor:

After losing $1,500 dollars looking for a house in The Dalles last year, my family felt used and discouraged.  We are desperate to improve our housing situation and until we lost those funds we thought that we had enough money for a small down payment.

We have been reduced to trying to replace the trailer we own with a new manufactured home in the trailer park where we currently reside.

We have been working by ourselves on the application for the permit since October 2018.  We have made eight trips to the planning office. Each time we got no concrete help, just more confusion.