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KMHC Tenants Petition Have Been Denied

A few weeks ago I was asked by a fellow tenant to sign a petition to put the park bench back in front of the building.  After reading the petition I signed it. Yesterday all tenants received a response from the petition, an unsigned two page letter with a copy of the petition from Urban Native Homes Inc. I also noticed 75% tenant signatures on the petition.
“Request to put the park bench back in it’s original place has been denied”.
I didn’t plan on making a blog about this issue but since UNH’s delivered a letter under my door then it deserves a response on my blog site. The park bench has been helpful in many ways. It’s a place where one can sit and relax and collect their thoughts or chat or rant with a fellow neighbor or to rest after a day of errands etc. The elderly tenants feel safe when near the building.  I can remember when former tenant Danny Joseph was being evicted by HSC Ingrid Nosel. Danny was visibly upset and I sat next to him, comfort him on the park bench as he sobbed away.
Also just before tenant Loretta died she & I would sit together on a sunny day on the park bench and chat about anything. Loretta told me due to her cancer the sunshine will give her vitamin D which she needed. Her will to live was remarkable even though she knew she was going to die she never gave up. During her illness she also mentioned the KMHC office sent her a complaint letter over some minor infraction.  Heartless bitches in the KMHC office.
I find the excuses UNH’s gave in regard to the park bench are lame but this is not my dispute.  It’s up to my fellow tenant to proceed to the next step if they choose to.

What the KMHC building needs is safety railings for the outside entrance where the park bench use to be and for the hallways. This issue was brought up once at a tenant meeting the response from HSC Ingrid “We have no money!” At the time I thought “Really! No money! Then you and Janis get out there and raise the money, I don’t care if you two have to stand at the corner of Emerald & King late at night to get it!”.   LOL.....when I think about it now I doubt Ingrid & Janis could raise enough for bus fare home.  :D

Tenant meeting scheduled for Sept 30, 2013…Who will show up...only time will tell. ;)

tk

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