My next housing, Armstrong Place for seniors on 3rd Street in Bayview Elegant community room with kitchen ( gray walls, and empty the 4 times I visited,,,) Laundry facilities in each floor, good ! Elevators BBQ and picnic area (empty, poor seating, on lobby level, small) Beautifully landscaped courtyard (I would not say so,,,, snall brush reteating in a boring, semetrical pattern, no flowers, basically squares of gravel and succulents...) Assigned covered garage parking (no car so I will not use the basement) Courtesy patrol (Cops or priovate security> Cops in my house I will freak...) Professional on-site management (from what I saw is just to assure that tenants are complaint) Gated property (this is disquieting, renters have a clip to slide by a scanner to enter, visitors must call office). I was bringing documents,rang office, no anbswer repeatedly, although I can see 3 people in the administrative office from the gate, Fortunately, my therapist had the cell # of one of the intakers, who canme to open the door without a word to me. (How would a tenant who lost a clipper get in if the staff is hiding in the office? We were never asked to sit, although I have obvious wheezing and difficulty to stand...) I notice that the building, for the 4th time, was empty and asked where were the (117) tenants, I had no answer, and finally told "in their rooms", I noticed a board on the front desk stating that all visitors must show picture ID and sign up. I asked what would happen to my undocumented friends whi have no papers, would they be barred from visiting me ? Tension built, I let it go. I asked when I could move in, no answer. Finally my therapist was able to be told that my application would be reviewed by Bridge Housing Board by the end of next week. It is quite an ajustment to become a non-person of lower class, unworthy of explanations about my immediate future, the tone of communication is condescending niceness at best, brisk and authoritarian if I insist. 12 years ago, I had supervisoed hundreds of social workersd and intake people., retrained the redeemable, honor the able, and put the inefficient on probation... Now, I am a nobody from the ghetto, at their mercy, struggling with acute illness and inpemding homelessness, and WHO SAYS WE ARE NOT STRONG ?? still alive and kicking, damnit !
Posted on: Sat, 31 Aug 2013 09:10:01 +0000
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