UPDATE : BELOW IS THE ORIGINAL POST
Promises were made. Some promises were kept.
This week final decisions were made about which homeless sheltered at Los Angeles Family Housing and other County of Mental Health Programs will live at GLEN OAKS.
LA Family personnel, wearing their blue T-shirts, were there to oversee the hanging of blinds and installation of furniture. There are 60 units and by Christmas most of them will be lived in, leaving vacancies that the LA Family Housing wait list people will quickly take. We know that many residents have waited over a year, even two or three years, to get those keys, under threat of being terminated the whole time.
We're waiting to hear from new residents about their experience living at GLEN OAKS.
How involved in your personal life will employees (case management) of LA FAMILY HOUSING be? If you have problems with other residents will they be involved in the resolution? What do you have to do to get kicked out? (We hate to bring that up!)
We wish the best to all of you who have come this far to get housing. We hope you will be happy, healthy, and see this residency as a stepping stone to greater independence and the kind of life you really want to live!
By the way, word on the street is that LA FAMILY HOUSING has just bought another building but is still claiming they have no money to provide promised deposit money for residents moving into Section 8 and other housing! Right!
HERE IS THE UPDATE! SHAMEFULLY and ALMOST UNBELIEVABLY, THE GLEN OAKS MOVE IN HAS TURNED OUT TO BE A DISASTER IN PLANNING! A GOOD NUMBER OF RESIDENTS WHO HAVE BEEN LIVING IN SHELTER CONDITIONS WAITING TO BE MOVED, TOLD IT WOULD BE OCTOBER, NO AUGUST, NO IN TIME FOR CHRISTMAS 2011, MOVED TO GLEN OAKS, but before they could get comfortable or pop a champagne cork in celebration, THEY WERE TOLD THEY HAD NOT BEEN APPROVED AND WERE MOVED BACK TO THE SHELTER! HOW COULD THIS HAPPEN? ARE WE TO BELIEVE THAT FROM CEO STEPHANIE DOWN TO JOHN THE DIRECTOR TO THE CASE MANAGERS NO ONE KNEW THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR MOVING RESIDENTS INTO THE BUILDING. AGAIN, HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE?
7 comments:
I heard the problem is that people who only have GR and not SSI or SSDI want to live there and you have to pay a few hundred or a third of your income.
Friends of mine were told that the shelter helped people move over there and then had to go get them and their possessions (after their bins were baked to kill bugs)and bring them back the shelter! Now that's plain stupid! Management knows what income people have to live on. They didn't need to pull this. People are really upset. They don't know what's next for them!
We at Expose Homelessness have been told that some people from Los Angeles Family Housing shelter were kept at Glen Oaks and these people applied for disability. While others who are already on disability were sent back. We have also been reminded that the ground breaking for this project by LAFH was a big deal with the Los Angeles' Mayor attending. And that LAFH is said to have purchased yet another building. As far as we know Glen Oaks recieved funding from multiple sources. If anyone from LAFH wants to comment, they can do so.
I think that residents should get together and sue the shelter for breaking their contract with them. There are thousands of homeless that need help. Then you get to the shelter and they want you to be grateful that you were chosen among all these people to be taken in and helped. Then you have to live in hell till they find a way to move you out of there. They say a lot of things they don't mean. They say they want to help end the cycle of homelessness and then they put people right back into it. Does anyone know of any other shelters in the area that do what they say they are going to do?
I think I know what went on with this. The building is a HUD building, not a section 8 building, and everyone who got a place had to do paperwork because Hud is paying rent. LAFH may have had a big hand in this building but they didn't get word to their case managers to do the paperwork well ahead of time. A friend of mine called the building and was told it's already full. Shelton
the preacher man got in and he aint mental. U know what i men?
Now I heard that people who moved in who were paying rent from their income from SSI and SSDI have moved out and LAFH is forcing people who they got Section 8 vouchers for to move into Glen Oaks or get kicked out of the shelter and loose the voucher. It's a brand new building and Ikea supplied furniture, towels, soap, everything, but not everyone wants to live in Sun Valley. Supposed to be that there isn't enough rent coming it to pay the mortgage! What's the real story about this building and LAFH?
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