All Lives Matter

     Over the past several years, there has been an increase in the number of violent incidents inside at least two of the HUD subsidized housing complexes mismanaged by William M. Connolly, First Hartford Corp., and other anonymous partners and corporations. The two unsafe housing complexes, mentioned in this particular article, are located in Somerville and in Rockland, Massachusetts.

     While legitimate residents' lives are constantly disrupted, threatened, and in danger, law enforcement deals with the same difficult residents, visitors, and live-ins over and over again on these nuisance properties.  No matter how many low income housing tax credits (LIHTC) and gov't funds are provided these corporate owners, they continue to be deliberately negligent at genuinely resolving the numerous upsets and disturbances.  Why are cameras installed on properties when they're not being used to help enforce occupancy agreements?

     On recently posted flyers, management implies that if tenants would write positive messages of inspiration on walkways with chalk, it might help make neighbors feel better. Seriously?  Will those happy li'l messages stop the repetitive disturbances and violence issues that threaten the quality of lives for residents? Sounds like a typical Democratic strategy of 'painting everybody a purty picture' while chalking away the seriousness of the dangerous issues at hand. I suppose to get some relief, a vulnerable tenant could always purchase illegal drugs that still exist on their nuisance properties - (not recommended).

     In April 2020, it was announced by the Middlesex District Attorney, Marian Ryan, that a Somerville man is facing assault charges after police say he stabbed and murdered a neighbor Saturday afternoon.  Police responded to Clarendon Hill Apartments in Somerville on a Saturday afternoon for reports of a stabbing. They found Kesner Junior Lubin, 27, of Somerville, suffering from stab wounds. Police said the initial investigation indicates Lubin and Washington Assis-Rodrigues, 26, also a resident of the apartment complex got into an argument, which allegedly escalated into a physical altercation.

     Lubin was transported to Massachusetts General Hospital where he was pronounced dead. Assis-Rodrigues was arraigned by teleconference at Somerville District Court.

* https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/04/12/metro/officials-investigate-fatal-stabbing-somerville-apartment-complex/ 

     Why aren't these corporate property managers and owners being held accountable for who they allow on their properties?  What more will it take?

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!

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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!