Back into confusion,
I look out my window and exist at the Catholic Charities, complex downtown, I got lucky ? And was placed in a supportive housing residence after Covid calmed down
The Covid “lockdown” moneys got homeless 60 year olds or older away from the shelters and into temporary housing at , hotels
That brought me new friends, friends of my age and generation.
Now two of my newly friended ( real actual humans not cyber mystery friends) have met fates decided by the shelter system.
Harlan a Vet has died and something happened to another lady last week . She was very upset coming back from chow. Surrounded by younger guys she was shoving them away but they followed her into our entry vestibule. I never got a chance to ask her what happened
We/I moved into a pay as you stay housing ,you pay 30% of your income, { You know , the standard for all housing/ shelter costs nationwide not just needy people ,30% }.
But , the building is not made for residential uses, it is like living in a concrete bell your neighbor sounds like they live under your bed ! We live on suspended concrete slabs
Right away I was waking with nite mares the guy above me was deliberately knocking on my ceiling at 1 hour intervals starting at 9:30pm and continuing all nite until 5 am ! This place is perfect opportunity for sadistic characters and street gang bullying.
my neighbor on the east of me is clunking things on her floor and hollering, she rearranges the sheet metal furnishings ( that come with the apartment/rooms) Every other nite at 3am until 6am To sleep is impossible .
I put up with the upstairs guy ( Fitzpatrick ) for 11 months writing many complaints and begging the manager to move me. I used earplugs and background noise to get bits and pieces of sleep at nite . I wax never moved , Fitzpatrick self destructed after a staffer got a open office on his floor .
Now he is banned from this property. But for other residents this property this concrete slab we all live on is the only opportunity to start over .
My friend Harlan ( Two tours in Nam ) was placed here just two doors from me . We had known each other for over two years, placed in a Covid lockdown program for the elderly homeless. He disliked the heavy traffic of drug use in front of this residence , and he was bullied in his apartment by the assholez knocking and banging .he even tried to find out who was harassing him and told them “ if you don’t stop I will call the police “
He left right away, the staff had no idea where he went , but he said he was going back to Iowa. But there was no home there to go to , He ended up back in St. Paul in a homeless shelter bunk bed where he got sick and died.
This place killed him . And now the thugs and druggies around me are after me . I have been seeing a Doctor because of the sleep deprivation = they only let me sleep for about an hour at a time .
This is the 15th month in a row that I haven’t been able to sleep through a night.
Right now I am calming down after being shocked awake by my neighbor,(the west of me)an extremely loud knock ! I got up real upset .he has been slamming his door every minute or so delivering calls and getting orders for drug sales
This neighbor was pointed out to me , by a guy who just moved out after being terrified . He was living in a single near , Catfish , who likes to holler as he goes to visit my neighbor {Catfish bragged to me about a car load Detroit thugs with a score to settle, that we’re stopping out front for a visit}
I was warned by people who had lived here that “they knock on your door “ and one guy said “that place is the reason I went to prison” Three other people in the last year have told me they are moving out because of the knocking and intimidation.
Note : the buildings / residences are brand new deliberately built this way = a way that any other “ normal” building code would never allow. There is even a 100 + unit building/ residences put on a FREEWAY ENTRANCE RAMP! = vulnerable, disabled indigent people out dodging traffic every day and nite !
I have tried all the diligence,complaints processing , filing paper complaint forms , sitting down with management, continuing with 70 texts to my case worker over the year .and always calling and talking to the front desk who , one guy , told me to move out !
Well I got in this mess because of the meth users at my old place , and a colors wearing guy (who had to move out of the west Seventh neighborhood ). That wanted my whole building for a gang truce center =
I was setup by lies and picked up arrested by sheriff’s like a ax murder and held without bail until I was evicted for nonpayment of rent. I plead guilty to try to save my home and my plants . { I was held at the “Tap-out Ramsey county jail. And I guess I tapped-out ) the public defender was too busy at my Video/ Zoom court proceedings, the stand-in P D didn’t even discuss my case and in fact told the judge “we are going with the original plea”
Glen’s inventory 