Holy Porch Monkeys!

    Just rediscovered an article about other abusive management practices at the affordable housing complex, Clarendon Hill Towers in Somerville, MA, where some residents successfully settled in court with the management company.  One of the tenants who hired an expensive law firm to represent her, settled for a lot of money, but also had to sign an agreement that she would not talk about the details of the case any longer.  It seems the details of this complaint also disappeared from public view. Thankfully, I saved a partial copy of some of their abusive practices toward low income tenants which included calling some tenants of color, "porch monkeys". 

    So what did the Democratic Massachusetts Attorney General's Office do when Management was found discriminating, entering female tenants' apartments unannounced, selectively installing a camera by a woman's apartment door,  sexual harrassments, destroying tenants' personal property, following tenants outside of the affordable housing complex, etc.?

     The AG not only allowed one of the abusive managers to keep his job at the development, but replaced the management company with an affiliated management company named Cornerstone Corporation.  A lot of good that did when each company commonly practiced abusing select tenants at more than one of their mismanaged housing complexes. You see, each of the selected management companies had the same partner(s) listed on corporate documents during that same time frame. 

     So, on the surface, it looked as though abuse toward low income tenants wouldn't be tolerated. To the general public, it seemed the Democrat Attorney General resolved the problem and justice was served.  Obviously, the resolution was a deceptive one. The problem was merely swept under a rug.  Looks like those campaign contributions and lobbyist fees really paid off for the corporations again!