Take a look at the video of Hillside Estates (link is posted at bottom of article), taken at a vacant HUD subsidized housing complex in Florida during 2015, and ask yourself the following questions:
1. Why are there so many homeless citizens in one of the richest countries?
2. Under who's presidential administration did this fraud, waste, and abuse of HUD funds (our tax dollars), take place?
3. What are the names of the companies, the people, and developers who financially benefited from this project?
4. Who was the HUD Secretary at the time of this project?
5. Who was the chairperson of the U.S. House Committee on Financial Services at the time of this wasteful project?
6. Will those responsible for the 'mismanagement of funds' ever be fined and/or held accountable? If so, how?
7. What are the future plans for this vacant HUD housing complex?
Reporter Sharyl Attkisson, HUD Secretary Ben Carson, and President Trump were recently contacted with similar questions about this HUD subsidized housing project. When we know more, we'll post an update.
VIDEO: *https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEwCKtUJuFw
TAMPA BAY NEWS: **https://www.tampabay.com/hernando/brooksville-housing-authority-gets-a-buyer-for-hillside-estates-20190607/
Freedom can not ring in an oppressive society. This blog reflects thoughts, personal experiences, + several notes of interest on 'affordable' housing. What do you think of gov't financing nuisance properties? Rockland Place continues doing business as SPRING GATE APARTMENTS along Martha Drive + Hannah Way in Rockland, Mass. (shady business).
Saturday, December 28, 2019
Wednesday, October 2, 2019
Child Rapist
A note to all the parents and children at Rockland Place dba Spring Gate Apartments along Martha Drive and Hannah Way in Rockland, MA 02370 . . . Please take a look at the following website and be aware and cautious that there is a child rapist living around the corner from where your children reside at this subsidized housing complex! According to this web page, he has a risk level of 2.
* http://www.city-data.com/so/so-Rockland-Massachusetts.html
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* http://www.city-data.com/so/so-Rockland-Massachusetts.html
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For Further Information
*www.corrections.com/articles/21987-fact-sheet-what-you-need-to-know-about-sex-offendersSubsidized Clean-up Business
The photo shows an unkempt room that was later cleaned and organized by a business listed from an apartment at Rockland Place dba Spring Gate Apartments along Martha Drive in Rockland, MA. A mother of 8 children owns the cleaning and moving business located at 141-F Martha Drive, and was hired to clean up the mess. Take a look at the before and after photos on the website listed below.
Good clean-up and organizing job! Wondering if the self-storage business continues to exist at that same government subsidized residential building of 141 Martha Drive?
Hiding the Facts
What kind of a news story is this? Why aren't names, building numbers, and apartments mentioned? The article is from 2016. First Hartford Corporation and HUD promised to clean up the illegal problems on this subsidized property many years ago. Noisy tenants, violence, drugs, and nuisance live-ins continue to exist on this government subsidized property. Amazing how nuisance tenants and live-ins remain there, while management illegally encourages the harassment of tenants who report non-compliance issues.
*https://whdh.com/news/2-arrested-for-alleged-drug-trafficking-in-rockland/
*https://whdh.com/news/2-arrested-for-alleged-drug-trafficking-in-rockland/
Sunday, July 14, 2019
Dark Money
Dark money is likely the reason why illegal activities are being allowed at Rockland Place dba Spring Gate Apartments. Could also be why the enforcement of occupancy agreements are mostly one-sided, in favor of subsidized corporate landlords. Is this why some tenants have no access to requested trials at the housing courts? Low-income residents don't even have any available public transportation to get to the housing court in Plymouth, MA, which is another automatic win for the corporate landlord during any eviction proceeding.
Dark money is likely why unrepresented tenants are coerced into mediation to sign documents that end in unjustified homelessness. When dark money is involved in our political system, there is no justice for ALL. This is how corporate landlords get away with retaliation and harrassment toward tenants who speak out about violations in lease agreements. . . . Dark money buys the rights of vulnerable American citizens' and hands our rights over to unethical corporations to stomp all over. It's corrupt + unAmerican!
* https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Money-John-S-Adams/dp/B07J2NTWR9?fbclid=IwAR1aNG0QP85FPkq5i80uWDIxC_H4cKvDPd10HvlGWU1_C60zf-qkT1et1Wc
** https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Dark+Money = SEARCH
*** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRO1RJS_Jj8 = View this documentary "Dark Money"
Dark money is likely why unrepresented tenants are coerced into mediation to sign documents that end in unjustified homelessness. When dark money is involved in our political system, there is no justice for ALL. This is how corporate landlords get away with retaliation and harrassment toward tenants who speak out about violations in lease agreements. . . . Dark money buys the rights of vulnerable American citizens' and hands our rights over to unethical corporations to stomp all over. It's corrupt + unAmerican!
* https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Money-John-S-Adams/dp/B07J2NTWR9?fbclid=IwAR1aNG0QP85FPkq5i80uWDIxC_H4cKvDPd10HvlGWU1_C60zf-qkT1et1Wc
** https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Dark+Money = SEARCH
*** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRO1RJS_Jj8 = View this documentary "Dark Money"
Saturday, June 29, 2019
Protection for Residents of HUD?
On Wednesday, June 26, 2019, the House Financial Services Committee held a markup of H.R. 1690, the Safe Housing for Families Act of 2019, legislation that protects residents of U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development-subsidized housing from carbon monoxide poisoning.
This legislation, introduced by Rep. Chuy Garcia (D-IL), would authorize $300 million over three years to fund the installation and maintenance of carbon monoxide detectors in HUD-subsidized housing units that have combustion-fueled appliances or a ventilation system that connects them to such units.
It was approved on a voice vote.
It was approved on a voice vote.
Note: HUD Housing residents need much more protection than this! Most residents of HUD housing can not get their lease agreements enforced and corporate management partnerships held FULLY ACCOUNTABLE for their nuisance properties. Tenants, who expect to live in safe and respectable housing, are afraid to speak out anymore because previous tenants have been marked by corporate landlords, harrassed by other tenants, and had to withstand frivolous eviction proceedings. Please read the article below!
Housing Full of Turmoil
Safe, decent, and fair housing is non-existent along Martha Drive and Hannah Way in Rockland, Massachusetts. There are no words to fully describe the disturbing and chaotic living conditions on this violently offensive, tax-credited property, mismanaged by various corporate partnerships through Boston Capital and numerous U.S. government agencies. There is no excuse, whatsoever, why the violent disturbances, fights, drunkenness, and drug parties continue to be allowed and financed with our tax dollars! It's not only unhealthy for children to be raised in such an environment, it's also severely distressing for disabled and elderly residents who need to live civilized and peacefully.
It's not uncommon to pass a staggering drunkard in one of the common areas of this nuisance housing complex or to hear groups of 8 and 9-year-old children slamming doors, yelling, and stomping through hallways that echo at 9 and 10 o'clock at night while parents party away in their subsidized apartments. It's not even unusual to hear vulgar language from a 4-year-old child shouting out in common areas to their grandparents or other elders, "Fuck you, bitch!" No, it's not uncommon at all; it's a regular pattern in an impoverished resident's life.
In buildings such as 160A and 187 Martha Drive, 45D and 86 Hannah Way, it's not uncommon for select residents to be overhoused at Rockland Place dba Spring Gate Apartments. It's almost an every day occurrence to hear at least one violent domestic disturbance from multiple buildings. Select tenants are being allowed to continually disrupt this community! Civilized tenants, who can't afford another place to reside, are held captive by fights, blasting bass beats and loud music, drug parties, and violent disturbances at all hours of the night. And, don't you just love it when those motorcycles ride behind the residential buildings and in the backyards where children play?
Security cameras and security guards are next to useless in getting management to deal effectively with the ongoing chaos. Why? Why do these corporate landlords and corporate managers support this turmoil and have no effective resolutions? Why do they tend to retaliate and encourage harassments toward low-income tenants who report such violations? Why do they allow unstable, drunken tenants to gain access to other tenants' confidential and financial information? Why is this nuisance property receiving tax credits? Could it really be that a Boston Capital executive was once working for our United States government and helped to create the rules on low-income housing tax credits (LIHTC), rules they continue to be in non-compliance of, yet benefit from?
*** https://fwact.org/veWnY4F - FreedomWorks.org
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It's not uncommon to pass a staggering drunkard in one of the common areas of this nuisance housing complex or to hear groups of 8 and 9-year-old children slamming doors, yelling, and stomping through hallways that echo at 9 and 10 o'clock at night while parents party away in their subsidized apartments. It's not even unusual to hear vulgar language from a 4-year-old child shouting out in common areas to their grandparents or other elders, "Fuck you, bitch!" No, it's not uncommon at all; it's a regular pattern in an impoverished resident's life.
In buildings such as 160A and 187 Martha Drive, 45D and 86 Hannah Way, it's not uncommon for select residents to be overhoused at Rockland Place dba Spring Gate Apartments. It's almost an every day occurrence to hear at least one violent domestic disturbance from multiple buildings. Select tenants are being allowed to continually disrupt this community! Civilized tenants, who can't afford another place to reside, are held captive by fights, blasting bass beats and loud music, drug parties, and violent disturbances at all hours of the night. And, don't you just love it when those motorcycles ride behind the residential buildings and in the backyards where children play?
Security cameras and security guards are next to useless in getting management to deal effectively with the ongoing chaos. Why? Why do these corporate landlords and corporate managers support this turmoil and have no effective resolutions? Why do they tend to retaliate and encourage harassments toward low-income tenants who report such violations? Why do they allow unstable, drunken tenants to gain access to other tenants' confidential and financial information? Why is this nuisance property receiving tax credits? Could it really be that a Boston Capital executive was once working for our United States government and helped to create the rules on low-income housing tax credits (LIHTC), rules they continue to be in non-compliance of, yet benefit from?
It doesn't look like HUD, SMOC, Dept. of Housing and Community Development (DHCD), Rockland Board of Selectmen, Rep. Maxine Waters and other career politicians really want to help lift these people out of poverty when these disturbing behaviors and lease violations are allowed to continue on this property. Bad tenants need to shape up or ship out. Politicians, who collect a paycheck from our tax dollars, certainly DO approve of this illegal behavior from residents, live-ins, and management companies when they continue to grant such landlords tax credits and other government funds. How dare these numerous government agencies not hold these limited partnerships like First Hartford Corp., Mr. Wm. M. Connolly, Neil H. Ellis, Cornerstone Corp., Boston Capital, etc. etc. accountable for mismanaging such properties and violating occupancy agreements and fair housing laws! It's been going on for too many years now.
Taxpayers have been indirectly supporting fraud, waste, abuse, derelicts, partiers, and irresponsible corporations for way too many years. Voters and citizens need to contact politicians and government agencies to demand these management companies, partnerships, and corporations be held FULLY ACCOUNTABLE for running such nuisance properties on taxpayer funds. Let them know you are against government agencies granting funds and tax credits to mismanaged places like Rockland Place dba Spring Gate Apts., when NO ONE is being held ACCOUNTABLE for compliance with laws and occupancy agreements.
Please contact the following people, corporations, and gov't agencies to voice your concerns and disapproval of government and taxpayer funding of nuisance properties like the one in Rockland, Massachusetts. Let them know you expect higher standards, fair housing enforcements, lease compliance, and better use of your tax dollars than to fund nuisance, noisy, and drunken properties like Rockland Place dba Spring Gate Apartments!
1. South Middlesex Opportunity Council, Inc. (SMOC)
7 Bishop Street, Framingham, MA 01702 - Twitter Account: @SMOCMA
Tel: 508-872-4853 or 508-620-2335
2. Dr. Ben Carson, Secretary of Housing, Housing Urban Development (HUD)
Twitter Account: @RealDrBenCarson
3. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr. Federal Building
10 Causeway Street, 3rd Floor, Boston, MA 02222-1092
Tel: 617-994-8200 / Fax: 617-565-6558 / TTY: 617-565-5453
4. Department Housing and Community Development
100 Cambridge Street, Suite 300, Boston, MA 02114
Tel: 617-573-1100 Listen for phone menu options for DHCD divisions
TTY: 617-573-1140
5. Boston Capital, Mr. John P. Manning, Co-founder
Please contact the following people, corporations, and gov't agencies to voice your concerns and disapproval of government and taxpayer funding of nuisance properties like the one in Rockland, Massachusetts. Let them know you expect higher standards, fair housing enforcements, lease compliance, and better use of your tax dollars than to fund nuisance, noisy, and drunken properties like Rockland Place dba Spring Gate Apartments!
1. South Middlesex Opportunity Council, Inc. (SMOC)
7 Bishop Street, Framingham, MA 01702 - Twitter Account: @SMOCMA
Tel: 508-872-4853 or 508-620-2335
2. Dr. Ben Carson, Secretary of Housing, Housing Urban Development (HUD)
Twitter Account: @RealDrBenCarson
3. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr. Federal Building
10 Causeway Street, 3rd Floor, Boston, MA 02222-1092
Tel: 617-994-8200 / Fax: 617-565-6558 / TTY: 617-565-5453
4. Department Housing and Community Development
100 Cambridge Street, Suite 300, Boston, MA 02114
Tel: 617-573-1100 Listen for phone menu options for DHCD divisions
TTY: 617-573-1140
5. Boston Capital, Mr. John P. Manning, Co-founder
One Boston Place, Suite 2100, Boston, MA 02108-4406 Tel: 617-624-8900
6. U.S. House of Representatives
Washington, DC 20515
Tel: 202-224-3121 / TTY: 202-225-1904
BAD LANDLORDS IN FEDERAL HOUSING COMPLAINTS
Hundreds of landlords have been fined and/or debarred from doing business with the federal government as a result of failing to provide safe and decent housing for the poor, while enriching themselves on taxpayer-funded subsidies.
Tenants have been forced to live in terrible housing, and neighborhoods have suffered from housing eyesores. HUD calls this a double crime: one against both tenants and taxpayers.
To report a bad landlord to the Multifamily Housing Complaint Line call toll-free at (800) MULTI-70 (800) 685-8470) / TTY (800) 432-2209.
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Rockland’s elected officials and how to reach them
U.S. senators: Edward Markey, 617-565-8519 / 202-224-2742/
Elizabeth Warren, 617-565-3170
U.S. representative: William R. Keating, 202-225-3111 / 508-771-0666
State senator: John Keenan, 617-722-1494
State representative: Rhonda Nyman, 617-722-2210
Selectmen: Vice-Chairman Deborah A. O’Brien, Lawrence J. Chaffee, Chairman Edward F. Kimball, Michael Johnson, Larry Ryan, 781-871-1874 ext. 100
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Monday, June 10, 2019
Heroin Seized in Section 8 Housing
It's certainly not the first time heroin and other narcotics have been seen, sold, and abused in government subsidized housing along Martha Drive and Hannah Way in Rockland, MA. Though this particular news story is from March 2016, illegal drug deals in this housing complex have existed since the mid 1980's while this property continued to receive housing tax credits and other government funds.
* https://www.necn.com/news/new-england/Heroin-Cash-Electronics-Seized-During-Drug-Bust-in-Rockland-Massachusetts-372931501.html
* https://www.necn.com/news/new-england/Heroin-Cash-Electronics-Seized-During-Drug-Bust-in-Rockland-Massachusetts-372931501.html
Wednesday, April 3, 2019
Carbon Monoxide Testing Required
South Carolina Senator Tim Scott sent a letter to HUD Secretary Ben Carson and within a few days big changes have been made in public housing. Read more at the following link::
* https://www.wltx.com/article/news/local/allen-benedict-court/sen-tim-scott-writes-letter-to-hud-to-require-carbon-monoxide-detectors-inspections/101-a04026ed-2159-4ac9-8906-9558e7359b5b
* https://www.wltx.com/article/news/local/allen-benedict-court/sen-tim-scott-writes-letter-to-hud-to-require-carbon-monoxide-detectors-inspections/101-a04026ed-2159-4ac9-8906-9558e7359b5b
Monday, March 11, 2019
SMOC Rental Assistance Programs
Program Description/Services
SMOC: South Middlesex Opportunity Council Rental Assistance provides rental subsidies to income eligible families in 37 communities. Each month designated payments are made on behalf of tenants directly to their landlords. Rental assistance vouchers allow families to rent in the private market and apply a subsidy to their rent. With this assistance, residents are able to pay approximately 30-40 percent of their income toward rent, with SMOC RAP paying the remainder. Each rental unit is inspected annually for compliance to HUD quality standards and Department of Housing and Community Development requirements. When necessary, the program acts as mediator and liaison between tenants and landlords. Call (508) 620-2335 for more information.
Wondering why some residents at Spring Gate Apts. in Rockland, MA apply for fuel assistance when tenants don't need fuel assistance; all utilities, including fuel, are included in rent payments. Please remember, there are Massachusetts residents who are truly in need for such a program, but when the program is misused and abused, people in genuine need suffer.
Do you have further questions about your type of housing in Massachusetts? If so, read the Department of Housing and Community Development Administrative Plan here: **https://www.mass.gov/files/documents/2016/07/ny/sec8administrativeplan.pdf |
Saturday, March 9, 2019
Correction!
I just read something interesting from Ben Carson's Facebook page and realize Dr. Ben Carson will NOT be leaving H.U.D.. (So there's hope yet!) You can FOLLOW him at the link to his Facebook page.
* https://www.facebook.com/realbencarson
* https://www.facebook.com/realbencarson
Wednesday, March 6, 2019
Corruption is a Difficult Fight
Dr. Ben Carson started with HIGH HOPES for the H.ousing U.nder D.rugs program. (The following article at the highlighted link is an interesting read.)
*https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2017/04/13/ben_carson_im_going_to_turn_hud_from_most_corrupt_federal_department_to_most_honest.html?fbclid=IwAR0l6AF0PdYasOmr2dAhNIZ845SkP8MdacTmp0wFfYoVSJFzlKahzFB-4DY
But now it looks like ethical Ben Carson may be stepping down from his position when his 4-years as Secretary ends. Can't really blame him; it's a corrupt housing program that is known to support corporations who deliberately violate fair housing laws and human rights of vulnerable tenants. Truth be told, HUD is a gov't program that enriches some dirty corporations who pay some empowered people to look the other way when violations occur. Sad to say the HUD website has been filled with deceptive statements about SAFE, DECENT, and FAIR HOUSING ever since Bill Clinton was President, and probably before then.
*https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2017/04/13/ben_carson_im_going_to_turn_hud_from_most_corrupt_federal_department_to_most_honest.html?fbclid=IwAR0l6AF0PdYasOmr2dAhNIZ845SkP8MdacTmp0wFfYoVSJFzlKahzFB-4DY
But now it looks like ethical Ben Carson may be stepping down from his position when his 4-years as Secretary ends. Can't really blame him; it's a corrupt housing program that is known to support corporations who deliberately violate fair housing laws and human rights of vulnerable tenants. Truth be told, HUD is a gov't program that enriches some dirty corporations who pay some empowered people to look the other way when violations occur. Sad to say the HUD website has been filled with deceptive statements about SAFE, DECENT, and FAIR HOUSING ever since Bill Clinton was President, and probably before then.
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