's okay...I have actually put this online before with confreres from Ask.com as well as Blurt...
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I was in senior housing; low-ethics management came in and promised (in writing) that rents would not be raised if everyone would just sit tight during renovations, and allow without protest a shift from HUD monitoring to less rigid tax credit funding.
Renovations were brutalizing, one tenant committed suicide...several more died needlessly.
Meanwhile, construction was carried out totally with profit goals; the beautiful building got trashed by cheap, non-functional alterations.
Then, rents started up; sometimes as much as 44%. A few tenants had incomes around $700, and when their rent went up like that, and too old, ill, weak, and poor to move, it can be a death sentence. And no one really notices ... old ill senile people might die anytime, what difference?
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Well, I took my stand, got Legal Aid went to court, got evicted. I will always be glad, could not have done it any other way...but then lived homeless for ten months. Actually, I am resilient and quite enjoyed those homeless months, but I am not typical. The old people could stand with me only weakly, I was basically alone. But my housemates shed plenty of tears behind closed doors.
btw, these management folks were hard line Republicans all, contributing heavily to The Party to protect their rights of "free enterprise"...and they did not break any laws legally, only moral decrepitude.