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OAHS Management Sucks

Last week I attended Perkins Centre for the COVID-19 vaccine shot when I met up with two tenants from KMHC. I was on a tight schedule but later when all was done I rode downtown with one lady and had the chance to catch up how she'd doing. She's not doing too well, the tenant is being harassed at KMHC and is waiting for OAHS to do something about it.  

Prepandemic - I knew about this for along time but kept it in my bookmark file until now. CBC Marketplace had a interesting episode about seniors home banning family members by issuing a trespassing notice. The similarities between Ontario Aboriginal Housing Services and the seniors home is apparent. I'm posting a link to the CBC Marketplace episode/article. https://tinyurl.com/yuy8d5d2

It's been over 2 years and I've done all I could regarding the trespassing notice by respectful phone calls and email requests to OAHS management which go ignored to this day.  So I made a command decision as long as my name is posted on the public bulletin board or anywhere else at the KMHC building 42 Mary Street Hamilton, Ontario this blog site will continue on with critique and feedback regarding OAHS.  I did have plans to shut it down after I moved out but OAHS management's inaction changed all that.  Like the woman in the CBC article I'm willing to take steps to get a judge ruling on this matter.

After my last blog post one current tenant Bernadeen authorized & reminded me to mention. When I was a tenant at KMHC for years I would wash the unit windows for all tenants living on the basement level four times a year.  No one else did this, not staff or other tenants.  It wasn't easy cleaning the snow, mud and dead bugs yet I was doing my part in helping the native community and it was much appreciated.  

KMHC Building

 



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Unknown said…
Urban Native (Aboriginal, Indigenous) Housing Boards can be such a joke. I do not have faith in nearly any of the Provincial/Territorial ones either. I sat on the board of two Native Housing Boards in Toronto (I was Vice-President on one and President of the other). Both organizations were the brainchild of Charles Catto, a non-Indigenous United Church Minister who was clearly an early proponent of urban and rural Indigenous housing initiatives. During my term on both boards, I uncovered an extreme web of mis-use of funds between the two inter-related non-profit corporations. In the end, the City of Toronto took control of the situation and installed a proper Indigenous Housing Provider Corporation to recover the asset that was almost run into the ground by Catto's operational indiscretions. The lesson here was that unless there are experienced board members serving as directors, non-profit housing providers of any stripe can and will try to get away with anything. I did not resign from either non-profit's board of directors -- I chose not to allow my name to stand again for re-election. Even after complaining loud and clear to the City of Toronto about the improprieties I had uncovered, they preferred to allow Catto to continue control of the organization but at least his power to control the finances was removed.
April 7, 2021 at 6:34:00 PM EDT
Tony King said…
Thank you for your comment very much appreciated.
April 8, 2021 at 8:30:00 AM EDT
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