If Your House Is Sick

  Some corporate property owners and managers, getting paid through HUD and housing authorities, discriminate and refuse to make their properties safe, accommodating, and livable for legitimate residents with disabilities.  Often these 'affordable' housing complexes and nuisance properties cause severe distress to individuals and families in need for safe, decent, and affordable housing.  While local housing courts often refuse to enforce fair housing laws, neglectful and/or abusive corporate property managers continue getting paid through HUD.

     One HUD property in Georgia,  operated by Fulton County’s Columbia at Mechanicsville, LP, Columbia at Mechanicsville Partners, LLC, Mechan-Summech, LLC, Columbia Residential Property Management, Inc., and their former property manager, Kalisha Winston, denied a mother’s request to move to another apartment after mold, mildew and other water damage caused by repeated flooding in her apartment began to affect her son’s health. Read HUD’s charge.  https://www.hud.gov/sites/dfiles/FHEO/documents/20ChargeColumbiaatMechanicsville.pdf

Read the entire article by clicking the link below.

*https://allongeorgia.com/georgia-public-safety/hud-charges-ga-housing-providers-with-discriminating-against-a-mother-child-with-disabilities/

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ANOTHER ONE IN CONNECTICUT

Another bad Hud-funded landlord is in Hartford, Connecticut.  This particular investigation is a rare move by a state's top prosecutor. Connecticut's investigation focuses on Emmanuel Ku's failure to repair and maintain a 150-unit housing complex in Hartford known as the Clay Arsenal Renaissance Apartments, where families lived amid rodent infestations, mold, broken windows and inoperable smoke detectors, among other threats to their health and safety, according to federal records.  https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6682019-Ku-Default-Letter.html

  You can read more about this by clicking on the following link. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/connecticut-investigates-hud-funded-landlord-who-rented-infested-homes-poor-n1125031

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NOTE:  We will continue posting more of these inhumane stories about government funded landlords, including updates on Spring Gate Apts. dba Rockland Place in Rockland, MA, which continues to be in non-compliance of lease agreements, so please bookmark typog.blogspot.com. It'll help remind you to return for updates.  And you won't even have to bother yourself passing through some flimsy gates, which really serve no good purpose anyway.

Vacant Housing, but Homeless People

No wonder the USA has so many homeless people!  Why do subsidized corporate landlords continue to get paid from HUD when they have vacant apartments on their properties?  Why do they continue to get paid when some of these properties aren't up to code?  This has been going on under HUD for a whole lot of years, even under the Clinton, Obama, and Bush Administrations.  It's not anything new.

 * https://theappeal.org/philadelphia-housing-authority-is-failing-at-its-mission-advocates-say/

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Homelessness and HUD Vacancies

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/

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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For Further Information 

*www.corrections.com/articles/21987-fact-sheet-what-you-need-to-know-about-sex-offenders

Subsidized 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? 

*https://www.yelp.com/biz/sparkling-star-cleaners-rockland

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/

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

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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.

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?

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
      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

*   https://www.rockland-ma.gov/about-rockland/pages/your-government

**  https://www.govserv.org/US/Rockland/1827881224114589/Town-of-Rockland%2C-MA

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