Hamilton Indigenous Housing

Blue Box About 4 years ago the City of Hamilton inspectors shut down the KMHC recycling room after being considered a fire hazard.   Since then the HSC Ingrid has been scratching her head and arse trying to figure out what to do with the blue boxes.   One idea was to place them across the hall from the office this went on for a while until they notice it doesn’t look good.   Then the staff decided to move the boxes across from I and my neighbor’s door.   That’s when I complained at a tenant meeting about the boxes being an eyesore in the hallway then HOW Lynda Jones came up with a lame excuse regarding city regulations which I didn’t believe.   Last year after filing a complaint to UNH’s head office combined with my neighbour’s verbal complaint the maintenance dept. listened and came up with an excellent solution.   The recycling boxes have been moved to an isolated area of the basement ironically right across from the old recycling room.   Yest...

Christine Demik came to KMHC less than two years ago she was Charles Jacobs replacement.   At first I thought she was a nice young lady, friendly and seems helpful.   Then the UNH’s curse took possession and soon her personality changed she became unfriendly, stoic and complacent.   Christine and Lynda are two UNH’s outreach workers who I assume were equal.   They had their duties then last year I noticed what was really going on, Lynda Jones is on a power trip and determined to take over KMHC.   Lynda actually said to me at our last meeting “From now on you will only talk to me, not Christine!”   I thought “up yours woman! I don’t take orders from someone I despise”.   From that point on I haven’t spoken to Lynda Jones or Christine.   Good Luck to Christine Demik I've never had anything against the young lady and she made a wise decision to take a job offer on the mountain.  IMO she would be wasting her time being employed at UNH's...

Whenever we tenants get together and talk about life and longevity we jokingly say the retirement place across the street is “the last stop before we cash in our chips" meaning death.   Unfortunately there are times when a tenant doesn’t make it to the retirement home and passes away early.   Since I’ve been at KMHC five Native elders have passed away which encourages me to savor life to the fullest because one never knows when their time is up. On Twitter I follow the HFD.  NEW | F15032611 | MEDICAL | Loc: 0 Block MARY ST HAM @ KING WILLIAM ST/REBECCA ST /CN: URBAN NATIVE HOUSING | Units: 1 | 10/5/15 11:51 Yesterday the HFD sent out a tweet at 11.51 am.  The HFD were dispatched to a medical emergency at the KMHC building.   After I read the tweet I heard the fire truck sirens and police show up at the entrance of the building.   Soon after tenants and staff were running about in the hallway I then knew something serious was up.   Sadly ye...