Topic Change: Reasonable Accomadations/HUD

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I wonder whyit is worse w/hud housing. It seems everything is a battle when it

involves anything to do w/the government, in alot of instances. Take this

example. 2 people same street one home HUD, one home not. (Bad city, bad part

of town) Both homes had an IAQ problem along w/others, pretty unfit to even

live in if you ask me. Both people call to lodge a complaint about their homes

w/their landlords. Still having problems. So they contacted the housing

authority that is suppose to enforce the fair housing act and reasonable

accommodations acts.(not sure what the exact name was in their area-I've never

personally done it) They come out and inspect. Renter in the HUD home is told

he must take it up w/his landlord, they don't get involved. Other landlord (the

non-HUD home) gets fined and given a time line to fix the problem. Hmmmmm, now

does that make sense?

I wasn't speaking of HUD homes/apartment rentals when I spoke. After witnessing

some of the living conditions out here w/HUD housing I am amazed. It shouldn't

matter if it is HUD/section 8/low income or whatever the heck it is. EVERY

person deserves to live in clean, safe home. We do have some wonderful

HUD/section 8/low income landlords out here, who do care about the families

renting their properties and treat them that way. I have an acquaintance that is

one of them. His homes are well maintained, clean, he talks me if there is water

intrusion of any sort to make sure they clean it up properly, which has only

happened a couple of times. He told me that if a family came to him and

requested the things we are speaking about he would be scared to accommodate,

and that most probably would just say NO. I asked why. He said because the

rent he is getting just covers the basic property and repairs. What if their

were some huge IAQ issues, and he didn't have the money to fix them? He also

said that because out here HUD/section 8 housing is at it's high it's probably

easier for most landlords to just NO, because the waiting is sooooooo long and

it isn't hard to find tenants who have no requests, they just need a place to

live. Most people wouldn't lodge a complaint anyway, and most landlords know

this. That if they did lodge a complaint it would take them forever to

investigate, if they even would anyways. Now to me this sucks. Didn't the

government make these " ACTS!!!! " Seems HUD would enforce it more on these

properties. But, what do I know. Apparently not much when it comes to figuring

it out. So, Darlene and Elvira I'm with you on this one. What a crock of crap.

Re: [] Topic Change: Re: EPA-TFS-apartments

Carl Grimes

And that leads to one of the problems with this whole indoor

environmental quality situation. WE don't know what is possible so we

don't know what to ask for or what to insist on.

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