The city found another $20 million that should have been distributed for rent assistance.
That means about $40 million dollars in rent assistance had just gone missing.
I am injured as a direct result of being thrown outside.
I am lucky someone helped me get what we could from my apartment, seek medical treatment, and I have been able to stay at a hotel to heal - but they say they can't keep paying for it and I can't bring two carts to the shelter. I don't know where to sleep outside to be "safe". Everyone else has a home full of generations of stuff. To be told I just have to lose literally everything is wrong.
Understand that I had been seeking out assistance for years because I became medically isolated and was being terrorized in my unit. I have PTSD and then my body deteriorated under duress.
If this funding had been available I would still have my home. If management had waited for this funding I would still have my home. If they would have cared more about keeping me housed in the unit where I lived since 2015 - a decade - I would still have my home.
