Fredericksburg has the distinction of being the locality with the highest percentage of renters in the entire state… and has gradually become one of the state’s centers for poor and economically-stressed households.
With 50% of our population financially at risk, there are less-fortunate forced to live in “slum-like” conditions. Single-mothers and their babies, working poor, grandparents, vets and minorities forced to accept “low-cost” housing with no hot water, toilets that do not flush, vermin, leaky roofs, and landlords who evict at the first sign of complaint, disregarding all regulations intended to protect tenants.