Someone helped me and I wrote this to them and thought it summed things up well:
It really is horrific and feels completely avoidable - I had provided documentation to my building about my disability multiple times. I was medically isolated since 2020. The building is designed to help vulnerable people stay housed - they have a resident assistance coordinator whose entire job is to help connect you with resources. I had lived there since 2015 but in 2024 a new property management company took over and the services side changed their domain for their emails. Then they started trying to evict me - I didn't get evicted in 2024 and then it was like a repeat in 2025. Plus the city itself did not disburse $106 million for rent assistance that also would have kept me housed. Essentially the building was supposed to help sign me up for the assistance and the city was supposed to disburse the funds to the organizations that would have helped me. When you say you got evicted people think all sorts of things but this really was not my fault and really should never happen to anyone ever again. I physically can't handle it and I have been sick now since early February. My body hurts every day - though naproxen and expectorant has helped. I lost almost everything I owned and have had to beg for help just to stay alive. This was truly cruel and I can barely think I am so horrified by all the variables. Thank you for caring. Here is a link to that news about the $106 million:
https://youtu.be/9EKrDUvyRWs?si=TZPjpR_EJvq-sVDl
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I got a storage unit and need to get my things there today. I am trying to secure the hotel room for one more night. They said they were booked this weekend because of valentine's day. I will probably have to sleep in a shelter again if no one can help me with another hotel.
The where I was is just one big room. A lot of people coughing. I could have been released into a college dorm or a hostel and it would have been the same problem - people are coughing everywhere I've gone. It is hard to sleep. I have felt sick with green snot and body aches since early February. I lost my voice during the appointment to get my stuff from my unit - urgent care did a nose swab and said it wasn't viral but instead caused by stress. They also gave me a note about my foot. The blister is healing though not completely yet. I rescued some insoles from my apartment and put them in my boots - it might look funny but if it rains they're the most waterproof shoes I have other than open toe sandals I got so I can shower. If I had not gotten a hotel room to heal I would have probably had a severe infection.
My other ankle has been swelling where I had surgery in 2004. It looks a lot better today - I have been staying off my feet for the most part and elevating it to sleep. Also taking 1200mg of expectorant (guaifenesin) and 660mg of naproxen. Sometimes four tablets if my back hurts too. My back completely locked up yesterday while I was just trying to pack for the storage unit.
My body has deteriorated and I can't function like I did before 2020. I have said that exact thing a lot but it seems like no one really understands. I did not choose this situation and it is not my fault. It was three parts: COVID, the hijacking of the police brutality protests and turning my street into a political theater war zone, and then neighbors terrorizing me on a daily basis in the years that followed. I had been diagnosed with PTSD in college but everything since 2020 exacerbated and caused new trauma unlike anything I had known before.
The bangs, the booms, the weaponized sound that ran over your brain like torture. The smashing glass from the garbage trucks (that do not usually pick up glass like that in that area) and the revving motorcycles. People repeatedly screaming things that no one ever used to scream outside, unhoused or not. Uptick in violence and gun deaths and stabbings right around the building. If someone just wanted to scare people out of the area, they had one hell of a propaganda campaign. Plus gassing my unit itself with all kinds of shit to the point I could not breathe and had no where to go to get away from the pollution.
Someday this situation will be called what it is - social murder and forced displacement of dissidents - and the future will know the whole story for once. I know I can't be the only one.
