Living in Subsidized Housing

Blah. I don't want more stuff, I just want to be left alone. I'm a grown woman. I don't need a set of rules to live by. I used to be someone once. Just because I'm broken now they seem to think that they can do with me as they please.

Those requirements are all fine if everyone who lives there is able bodied and has the money to pay for the water bills etc. I do find the going through someones drawers out of line though, and what happens if someone gets sick and cannot live up to those conditions due to their illness? I would not be able to live there, nor would I think anyone else should have to put up with crap like that. We dont live in Nazi Germany do we?

This "guy" is a gal.

This is what I know about her personal ethics:

She is 30 years old, has one child, lives here rent-free, draws a salary on a 40 hour week when I know for certain she doesn't work at least 5 of them (BTW- she was supposed to be in her office last Thursday and wasn't and posted that she'll be out of the office until this coming Thursday).

She owns and has on the premises one dog, two cats, and an aquarium.

Though we aren't to paint our apartments other than white she has painted hers a bright azure blue.

Though we aren't to anchor anything to the outside of our buildings she has installed some weirdo plant stand onto her porch and ripped up the lawn in front of her unit and laid out rubber mulch.

She drives a dilapidated car.

And I bring that up for the next fact:

She has a boyfriend who lives in a unit a few doors down. He buys drugs off various residents. I can give you more information on this if you like- I don't want you to bash this until you are fully informed.

I don't have any of the "good" drugs like morphine. Thank God I'm only on anti-depressants.

But twice they have been delivered via the USPS to this complex in my name and to the office.

I NEVER got them.

I KNOW what happened. The envelope was opened, thinking they would be "good" drugs.

Even though they weren't worthy to this woman and her boyfriend they very well couldn't forward the opened envelope to me, could they?

The woman shuts the office compound down once every three months where she sells TVs, furniture, etc. that has been left in these apartments when people vacate (usually moving on to a nursing facility or having died).

The money she collects, she pockets.

I know embezzlement is going on, to say the least.

Even knowing all of this, all I ever wanted is for this woman to treat all of us with proper respect.

The fact that she's evil and vile leads me hope to believe that she'll be gone soon if our group can get our act together- something that isn't easy for motivating people who has give up, for the most part.

This thread has really helped me to begin this process.

Thanks to all for your ideas.

Reading their requirements: how come they have the nerve to inspect in your drawers and such? I cannot stop to think that this world is damaged beyond repair. You pay the rent, for that period is yours, they have no right to enter or interfere. Isn't valid the doctrine my house is my castle?

These residents receive an utility allowance. Annually the utilities are reviewed and averaged. Example of how this works:

Utility allowance is $200

Annual income of $12,000.
$480 deduction for elderly, disabled12,000 -480= 11,520annual a adj income. (They can also deduct any medical, insurance, dentaletc they pay out of pocket)
Adjusted Monthly income is $960
30% is $288 MINUS UTILITY ALLOWANCE OF $200 = $88 is what is paid as rent.

If the utility allowance was $300 then this resident would have received a check each month for $12 to help pay utilities.

SO not only are you the tax payer paying the subsidy you are also paying their utilities.

Good GRIEF, Miggy! This woman sounds absolutely vile. Selling people's belongings and pocketing the money? Dear Lord! That should be going to their families or at the least, Goodwill!



If people only knew how many of the truly in need are victimized by the very people who provide the "assistance". There is a whole other side to public assistance that few people know about or hear about. I guess that's why I made this thread. Today's new rule about washing the windows and the siding was the last straw. There is no way Bebe or Tom or even Linda could do that work. Hell, I'm not even sure I can stand on a ladder without falling off. Kind of afraid of heights. But what is going on at your place is criminal, Miggy. Just criminal!

Utility allowance is NOT determined by the state, it is done by actual consumption. Go to HUD.gov and see for yourself.

I have worked in the housing field for 20 years in 7 states.

Why try to misleadneveryone that you are paying for water when it is deducted off your a DJ monthly income.

You are getting the allowance. No one is getting rich off of this.

I thought I clearly explained it.

I know, Eireann.

I just believe that somehow the truth will come out.

Maybe we were put in these places for a reason.

Before I came these people had no clue they had any rights at all.

Until reading this thread I had forgotten that we do.

It drains me, living here. For one, I'm one of only two people in this building of 8 that has a car so people are always needing rides everywhere.

Then there's the emotional support which thes poor people aren't getting from anywhere else.

I am tired when I come home from my job and just like last night, there's always another 2 hours I try and be neighborly and encourage my friends.

If I make it out of here there won't be an obstacle in the world I can't conquer.

IF I make it out of here.

Some days I don't think I will.

But today this thread has encouraged me and for that I sincerely thank you.

Mig

I already do that - for free.

Don't forget when Boehner said on the White House press conference that the government will start seeking reimbursement for federal aid given out starting in fiscal year 2014.

Now

Did he really?

Well guess a lot of elderly will be homeless. I'm not sure how they are going to pay it back on $500 a month of Social Security. What about the money they already paid in for all the years they worked? I mean, I figured my portion that I paid in having worked since I was 14. I've taken FAR less then I paid in. FAR less. Do they take that into account?

Did he really?

Well guess a lot of elderly will be homeless. I'm not sure how they are going to pay it back on $500 a month of Social Security. What about the money they already paid in for all the years they worked? I mean, I figured my portion that I paid in having worked since I was 14. I've taken FAR less then I paid in. FAR less. Do they take that into account?

Well I am not surprised. I can tell from all of your threads and comments, that you have a good soul.

It was just an idea, instead of pooling your money together and paying someone else to do it.

Stay strong and sweet!!

He didn't say what programs would be effected by the reimbursement policy they put in motion, only that they will begin to start collecting on federal aid in a new venture to combat unemployment and welfare.

i thought you were married to a european?

Thanks :) Anyone would do the same for their elderly neighbor. I do the watering for three of the ladies who live here. One is in a wheelchair and there are just some places she can't reach. The two other ladies just can't. One is COPD from Asthma and the other is so blind she couldn't see to do it. I weed their flower beds and walk ways. Sweep. They are really great people. All of them have their own stories and life philosophies and they are just... precious.

i am not against housing by hud if i could i would live there...but rules should be implemented have u not seen the ghetto projects ? I don't know if i believe your once a month inspections...i have had friends that one gets sec8 and live in HUD housing and they do not get inspections once a month..they do get inspections once a year tho..... and i knew of the elderly hud housing and never heard of this from alaska to new york to Florida

I am. And unemployed European atm, but not for long. He just got an offer that, for lack of a better way of wording it, is straight from God.

He has always helped me out when he was working. Any money he paid I claimed on my taxes and reported as extra income.

Just to add to my earlier reply - I mentioned the washing of the siding and outside windows. There is budgeted amount that is more or less spent at the discretion of the managers. This goes toward washing the windows and siding,lawn care, trash, landscaping, parking lot resurfacing, etc. This amount MUST be spent during the fiscal year and anything unspent is returned to the corporation.
This is a great plan for honest managers and owners, but one can see how it could be abused by the unscrupulous.
Our managers are a husband and wife team who are very spiritual and feel very strongly that everything that they do should be approved by God.
They feel that inspections are intrusive and for that reason they try to preserve our privacy as much as possible.
I feel blessed.

Live with the rules if your rent is being subsidized by the tax base. OR, start that business and struggle for yourself with fewer rules.

E,

Do you know what the word ALLOWANCE means?