DETROIT — City council candidate Charles Pugh is facing foreclosure on his downtown condominium as he has fallen behind on payments to his $400,000 mortgage, the Detroit Free Press reports.

Pugh quit his jobs at WJBK-TV (FOX 2 news) and at WJLB-FM (97.9) this spring to focus on his run for city council and since then has not had the funds to keep up with mortgage payments, according to the report.

“I tried on multiple occasions to have the mortgage modified, but because I wasn’t able to guarantee a steady income, I was not allowed to,” Pugh said in a statement released Wednesday morning. “I’m currently going through what thousands of Detroiters are experiencing.”

Pugh has had housing trouble in the past, with multiple eviction notices tied to a space he rented in 2002.

While the leading city council candidate says he is still fighting to keep his condo, it is unclear whether the $80,000 annual salary he would make as a city councilman could fortify his bills should he win the fight with a $400,000 mortgage and more than $1,400 in monthly association fees.

The news makes some question Pugh’s ability to handle his own budget, let alone the city’s multi-billion operating budget that is currently running an estimated $300 million deficit.

“If things don’t go right, it sounds like we might have our first homeless councilperson,” one caller said on Mildred Gaddis’ morning radio talk show on WCHB-AM (1200).