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Tag Archives: HUD
The Area Supervisor
I don’t remember meeting Leslie. I’ve lived in “senior housing”—HUD-subsidized housing for people who are poor, disabled and/or old—for twenty-two years and the main thing it’s taught me is to not have anything to do with my neighbors. I calculate … Continue reading
Posted in disability, disability rights, Housing, Poverty, Power, Powerlessness, Values
Tagged disability, poverty, poor people, HUD, Housing, subsidized housing, old people, Leslie, area supervisor, sick people, senior housing, neighbors, cross-dresser
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Resume of an Activist
Anne C Woodlen Syracuse NY 13210 ribs2007@yahoo.com “Perhaps when we face our maker, we will not be asked, ‘How many positions did you hold,’ but rather, ‘How many people did you help?’” ―Thomas S. Monson In 2001 I began the … Continue reading
Posted in activism, advocacy, Depression, disability, Government Services, Medicaid, Mental Illness & Health, Onondaga County, Poverty, Power, Powerlessness, Values
Tagged ADA, Americans with Disabilities Act, antidepressants, Call-a-Bus, Centro, citizen, Citizens Review Board, citizenship, City of Syracuse, Crouse Hospital, David Sutkowy, depression, Dept. of Social Services, disability, DSS, Federal Transit Administration, FTA, God, HUD, MAS, Medicaid, Medicaid transportation, Medical Answering Services, NYS Dept. of Health, NYS DOH, NYS OMIG, OCR, Office of Civil Rights, Office of Medicaid Inspector General, Onondaga County Legislature, Onondaga County New York, Post-Standard, poverty, power, problem solving, SUNY Upstate Medical Center, Syracuse Police Dept., values, Visiting Nurses Association, VNA, Welfare
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Death of a Citizen; Birth of a Christian
In the homeless shelter, I was required to apply for Social Security Disability (SSD). In July 1991 I was declared totally disabled and awarded SSD; with that came Medicare and Medicaid. Transitional Living Services got me out of the shelter and … Continue reading
Posted in Depression, disability, drugs, God, Health Care, Inpatient psychiatry, Medicaid, Medical care, Medicare, Mental Illness & Health, Pharmaceuticals, physician, Poverty, Spirituality, Values
Tagged antidepressants, Christian, citizen, depression, disability, doctors, drugs, end-of-life, Food Stamps, God, health care, HEAP, Holy Bible, HUD, Medicaid, Medicare, mental disorder, mental illness, patients, pharmaceuticals, Physician, physicians, poverty, power, Social Security, values
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One Woman and a Facade
Attn: Tom Druelinger, HUD Buffalo Office Date: October 29, 2010 Re: McCarthy Manor, 501 S. Crouse Ave., Syracuse NY 13210 Sharon Sherman, d/b/a Greater Syracuse Tenants Network Sharon Sherman, ostensibly working for the Greater Syracuse Tenants Network, is interfering with … Continue reading
Posted in activism, advocacy, Fraud, Housing, Poverty, Power
Tagged Greater Syracuse Tenants Network, GSTN, HUD, McCarthy Manor, Onondaga County New York, poverty, power, Sharon Sherman
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Rosie
Yesterday I asked Rosie for help in filling out the applications to skilled nursing facilities. A couple different agency people had told me that I should ask Rosie for help. I have asked her in the past. Rosie is a … Continue reading
Posted in activism, advocacy, American medical industry, disability, Government Services, Health Care, Housing, Medical care, Poverty, Power, Values
Tagged CAB, Call-a-Bus, Centro, disability, end-of-life, HUD, Onondaga County New York, patients, poverty, power, Rosie, skilled nursing, Social work, values
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The SPD That Can’t Do Anything Right
At 6:22 a.m. a car alarm started sounding outside my window—well, somewhere outside my window. I live on the eighth floor, so it wasn’t directly outside my window. Directly under my window is a Crouse Hospital parking lot. If the … Continue reading
HUD’s DUNs
DUN. Dead Upstairs Neighbor. Your ceiling starts to leak so you put in a work order with the management office. They send the superintendent, who comes and looks at your ceiling, then goes upstairs and finds your neighbor dead on … Continue reading
Posted in Death, disability, Government Services, Housing, Poverty
Tagged alcoholism, Centro, Christopher Community, death, disability, DUN, elderly, end-of-life, federal policy, high-rise apartments, HUD, Onondaga County New York, poverty, segregation, sick
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Lights—and Everything Else—Out.
All the lights went out. So did the air conditioners, computer, clock and music. In the hall, the fire doors banged closed. In HUD high-rise apartment buildings, that’s the sure sign of a building-wide power failure: the fire doors are … Continue reading
Posted in disability, Housing, Poverty, Power, power wheelchairs, Powerlessness
Tagged 911, Air conditioning, cell phone, disability, fire department, HUD, Kane, National Grid, Onondaga County New York, power, Power outage, problem solving
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My Reaction to the Police Response to the Incident
The incident took place on Sunday night. The following day was Memorial Day and the temperature was 92 degrees, so I stayed in my air conditioning and did not follow up on either the incident or the police inaction. On … Continue reading
Posted in activism, disability, disability rights, Government Services, Housing, Mental Illness & Health, Poverty, Power, power wheelchairs, Powerlessness
Tagged Arrest, assault, citizen's complaint, Crime, disability, disability rights, Harassment, HUD, Internal Affairs, Matthew Malinkowski, Office of Professional Standards, police, Police officer, poverty, power, power wheelchair, SPD, Syracuse, Syracuse Police Dept., Wheelchair
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