Thursday, November 5, 2009

Relocation assist issue for Char from Baltimore

We have received this email from one of our reader Char from Baltimore and she is going through a lot of trouble. here is her story:

The Executive Director of the Baltimore Housing Authority and Commissioner of The Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development(Paul T. Graziano) and HUD FHEO misrepresented the facts about Alcott Place and its housing quality standards. The building was inadequately ventilated; it was environmentally and psychologically
toxic, and endangered the lives, safety, health, and well-being of building occupants, visitors, and employees. Instead, of the owner, management, and the Baltimore City Housing Authority's HCVP and Office of 504 Coordination and FHEO addressing the problems, each banned against any tenant that exercised his or her rights, and also organized tenants to rebel against other tenants by creating and posting discriminatory notices in a federally assisted building for the poor,
elderly, and disabled. Retaliation against the complaining tenant resulted in toxic chemical sprays(paints) being deliberately released unto the complaining tenant(s) and deliberate overexposures to sabotage the health of any complaining tenant. The black-balling also led to the complaining tenant being denied targeted and deprived of relocation assistance in accordance with the Uniform Relocation Assistance Act. In
fact, the complaining tenant(s) that was threatened by the hostile living environment and whose health had been adversely compromised by indoor air pollution, unacceptable maintenance practices, and poor building design encountered an involuntarily eviction. Commissioner Graziano misrepresented that "tenants moved voluntarily during the course of rehabilitation, and that no further assistance would be offered as it is their choice to relocate at that point". As for the state of health that Mr. Graziano spoke of, for two years now(since 2007), I have been left homeless and virtually living out-of-a vehicle due to Sick Building Syndrome, HVAC illness, severe and debilitating allergies/allergic asthma with immune system suppression that was caused by a toxic project base section 8.