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Tomorrow morning, the sheriff is coming to Lenise Forrest's home in the Cabrini rowhouses to throw her and her family out on the street.
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Homeowners often fail to respond to foreclosure summons, according to another recent Windy Citizen share.
Instead of launching a melodramic saga, may I suggest that we help Ms. Forrest's family to find gainful employment & a new place to live?
Yes, I think that would be awesome. Lenise reached out to me because she thought I might be able to connect her with people that could help. If you have resources to help connect her with a new job and a new home, she would greatly appreciate it.
My email is megan (dot) m (dot) cottrell (at) gmail.com. I would be happy to connect you with Lenise.
I had no idea the residents there pay rent etc - I think a lot of people probably had no idea, either...shame to happen, tho.
Yes - they do pay rent. The minimum rent is $75 a month, but everyone pays 30% of their income to live there. So when Lenise worked at the nursing home, her rent was like $275 a month. But when she got a new job, her rent went up to $595, which is part of the reason she needed the EID to pay off her balance and still pay her rent.
Interesting though - I didn't know that people thought that the residents lived there for free. Thanks for saying that!
So she fell behind rent, and then can actually pay it off but after the deadline the city set with no consideration to when she might have the money, and then won't accept the money, but she wasn't physically evicted yet.
So she is going to be out of a home with no job and two kids and CHA is going to be out $4,000? Over... 12 days? Am I getting this right? Because someone is screwing up royally right now then. All because of some stupid rules and regulations. Where is someone living in the cheapest place to live already going to go with no job? Bend the damn rules.
Yes - the deadline was set by the management company. When I talked to Dorothy Burnett, she says that's the way it usually works. Most of the time, even if people have a job, they don't have a lump of money to give right then. Lenise did have that lump sum, but only because she got her last two pay checks from her job because she was being laid off, plus some rental assistance from them because they knew the situation she was in.
It's sort of a conundrum. I've been told that NYC's public housing is better than Chicago's because they're really tough about the rules. You break them, and you're out. No ifs, ands or buts. But sometimes, like you say, it seems to defy human decency. Not to mention that she would be paying almost $600 to live in a very small apartment with lots of physical problems. The ceiling in the hallway is falling in because of a leak.
Anyway, thanks for reading and great comment!
At some point government and big groups changed from the thinking of "work for and protect the people" to "enforce and uphold the rules" and everything seems to have lost a lot of compassion in that transition.
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