PALO VERDE - LOS ANGELES FAMILY HOUSING - ANOTHER SCANDAL! WORD ON THE STREET

The Palo Verde Apartments in Sun Valley has become the scene of another scandal. 

Where are the real journalists for the Daily News or the Jewish Journal to investigate and report the whole story instead of doing the usual PR spin cloaked as news to scratch the back of the CEO?


Word on the street is that another employee of Los Angeles Family Housing has been fired in recent months, this time a woman who was embezzling money from the "clients" rental money.  LAFH and Palo Verde Apartments needs a forensic accountant. 

How could this go on and no one notice?

Most residents of this building pay a portion of their rent, even though they are on a BUILDING BASED VOUCHER.  Which means that if they move out of the building they must get a different voucher such as a Section 8 voucher or make a go of it on their own, perhaps in a room for rent in a house.  Some of these housing vouchers are given on the basis that the person  is or was experiencing mental health problems or simply they have endured a great deal of poverty for a long period of time and have no where else to turn. Some of these people want to get well and are looking for work or going to school to redirect their lives.  They live on very little money as is. 

They paid their rent, it went into an account, and then the money, and we hear it was a hell of a lot, went missing.

What about this woman who was fired for embezzling?  Where is she working now when she should be sitting in prison?




Since two employees of Los Angeles Family Housing Valley Shelter, heterosexual men, have been fired or chose to "move on" since 2008 for sexual harassment and/or actually taking homeless women to apartments or motel rooms for sex, and in at least one case the homeless person was told that if she did not have sex she would not get housing, you'd think that the case managers and other employees would start getting serious about being paid professionals working with a very desperate and dependent population.  You'd think that they'd be afraid of loosing their jobs or careers even if their own personal moral compass was spinning, but they sure seem to be empowered by a tolerant management and a management that DOES NOT WANT THE NEIGHBORHOOD, LAW ENFORCEMENT, or CONTRIBUTORS or FUNDERS to know the truth.

We've heard of other situations since then - heterosexual and homosexual - in which case managers do not have healthy boundaries when dealing with homeless residents.  WHAT A HORRIBLE THING TO DO, to threatened a person who has experienced homelessness and is at the shelter in order to get housing, with the loss of that opportunity because they will not "comply" with sexual or other unreasonable demands.  Yet we hear that the heterosexual men who were fired just went to work in some other social worker job here in Southern California.
 



It's a shame that so many social services agencies in Los Angeles, particularly in the San Fernando Valley, feel so confident that when they refer someone who comes to them for help to LAFH, they will be going to a good place and end up in a good place.

PALO VERDE PR STARING STEPHANIE KLASKY-GAMER CEO

NOTE: THE ORIGINAL VIDEO POSTED HERE WAS TAKEN DOWN OFF YOUTUBE.


SOUNDS GOOD... now are these apartments really the rent-paying resident's or is this another shelter where anyone can just knock on your door and walk right in? Do you have to come home every night? So you have to sign in or tell a case manager where you were or why you weren't home? What about the restrictions on visitors?

How do you explain the fact that some residents have been at the LAFH Valley shelter for 4, 5, 6, and 7 years? What percentage of people you intake end up in their own apartment in a year? At all?

LOS ANGELES FAMILY HOUSING - BITTER RESIDENTS USING FACEBOOK AND TWITTER TO GET THEIR EXPERIENCES OUT THERE

According to our source, bitter residents and ex residents of LOS ANGELES FAMILY HOUSING have set up Facebook and Twitter accounts to get their real experiences to funders about life at the shelter. Bad experiences living at the shelter as well as with the management at Palos Verde apartments, provoked these people into trying to stand up for themselves. Our source says that funders are kept unaware of what life is like at the shelter. Complaints range from other residents to case management. Our source tells us that WEST VALLEY MENTAL HEALTH may separate itself from the shelter due to the recent scandal at the Palo Verde apartments where 35 residents there on their first section 8 voucher where told to give their vouchers back and accept Shelter Plus instead. Since we don't use Twitter or Facebook at this time, we are unable to verify any of this.  this.