A group of Cincinnati seniors who recently learned their rent is doubling could get city help after strong words from the mayor and City Council members Wednesday.

Developer Kingsley and Company finished Victory Vistas in Paddock Hills last year using a $1 million city incentive as well as federal Low Income Housing Tax Credits. The company was founded by former Cincinnati Bengal Chinedum Ndukwe.

Victory Vistas resident Gwen Smith told WVXU she thought her unit would stay affordable based on her income. Then she got notice in September her rent would increase dramatically.

"I gave you all my tax papers, I gave you all my bank accounts and all this, and now you're not living up to your part of it," Smith says. "It's really frustrating and it has a lot of us having anxiety."

Some seniors

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