Vert1600

2y

You using Windows or Linux ?

Choking

2y

my friends polish canadian and some dude asked him about immigration and south asians and ended up being a huge racist. The dude was indian.

Also had some indian dude record me coming back from work thinking im an immigrant ask me if i liked it in canada and wanna return before i told him i grew up here lmao

Vert1600

2y

What yall think about The GNU Manifesto ?
@Snowboy @WRU @americana

snowboyrari

2y

its a petty bourgeois liberal thing, D*** Stallman was an open anti-communist himself and saw "free software" as compatible with the capitalist system.

the communist view on software is that software development should be scientifically & centrally planned, "intellectual property" rights should be abolished, and wasteful computer usage should be discouraged (if not outright prohibited, it is an ecological issue after all).

North Korea is actually a good case study on homegrown centrally planned software development.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Star_OS

They also designed their own tablet indigenously though I dont really know much about that.

Vert1600

2y

Tried that Red Star OS in a contained VM and s*** full of spyware

Vox

2y

If this isn't the place for this I'll delete I'm just hot and need a place to get this out of my head and potentially hear from others. Plus even though I don't post in here often, I really appreciate this thread and the bits and pieces of things I've been exposed to and learned about here.

I'm currently disabled and got a housing voucher at the beginning of December. This voucher allows me to live anywhere I want as long as the property owner agrees to it and the apartment is within the rent standard of that particular zip code.

December also marked the end of my second year long lease at my old apartment. The landlord, offered me a lease renewal at the beginning of December but pulled it as soon as I offered to pay with a voucher. I don't know if this holds true everywhere but by law that's discriminatory where I live.

My housing counselor handled all communication with the landlord from that point (she does everything exclusively over a landline and mails any necessy documents) to when I moved out on July 5th. The landline part is important because there isn't much of a paper trail. Also she's an absentee landlord that is extremely far away from the building.

However I do have an sealed and dated envelope with a lease renewal offer that the landlord mailed me before she declined my voucher.

For whatever reason, the landlord felt incredibly comfortable talking to my housing counselor and was very open about being racist, not wanting to go through the trouble of taking on my voucher in part because she knew the building would fail the mandatory inspection, refusing to comply with rental assistance etc but the only proof of that is my housing counselor's notes

The voucher doesn't cover any rent until the city establishes a contract with a property owner. Thus due to the landlord's discrimination and initial refusal to comply with rental assistance I was immediately in a dire situation that f***ed me up in multiple ways including biting on a scam of an apartment in a rush to get out that led to me getting burned for a rack.

Thankfully my housing counselor was able to convince the landlord to complete the rental assistance program and that covered my rent from January til June 2nd. I did have to send 800 dollars to the landlord as part of this application because this program only gives out rental assistance if they think you won't immediately go back into debt.

My housing counselor relays to me that the landlord sounds like she won't come after me for the rent due from June 2nd til move out because she got so much money at once and just wanted me out. I was wary of this but I'm not well and it took a lot out of me due to my disability to find the help I needed to clean, pack and move out and actually get through it so I had to focus on that.

However, between the pictures I have of the poor condition of the apartment and that sealed lease renewal I feel like I have what I need to fight off the landlord if she does come after me for the remaining rent.

The week after I moved into my new apartment my housing counselor tells me that the landlord let them know that as far as she was concerned my move meant 'case closed'.

I get a hold of the landlord the following week (last week) and not only did she want the remaining rent but she wanted to take out a portion of my security deposit for cleaning. Thankfully she was trying to do that off the word of the building manager so I was able to fight that off since I have pictures of the apartment being clean post move out.

My housing counselor and my main contact at the local tenants union agreed with me that I got f***ed over and the landlord did a bunch of terrible, illegal s*** but since 1) post move out means any rent disputes become a small claims issue and I can't match the landlord who keeps a lawyer on retainer 2) the paper trail is weak I was advised to pay the remaining rent.

As of last Friday, the landlord applied my security deposit to the remaining rent I owed and she wants me to wait until I receive documentation of that and the interest on my security deposit and last month's rent before I send a check for the remaining ~200 dollars. This + the 800 I sent adds up to 2500 dollars which is a devastating amount for me to lose and was hoping to avoid since I have a housing voucher.

I don't have much hope but I still want to look into getting that money back.

These are pictures of various displays of the condition of the apartment. The rusty looking substance coming out of the sink seal is reoccurring and when I brought it up with the building manager a while back he just threw up his hands because he had no idea what could be causing it.

I have no idea what the black stuff in the kitchen and bathroom is besides the fact that it's not mold and that it reoccurs in areas where you make contact often.

I only stood in front of the stove once every few months to charge a weed pen as I couldn't use the stove due to my disability. I'm posting those pictures to display that even a bit of contact can bring out whatever that black stuff is.

But yeah, I can answer questions but I'm just glad to get this out

(Building manager had to drill at random because of how terribly the ceiling was setup)

(Ceiling slowly collapsing in another part of my room)





(Shelf looked like that the very first day I moved in)

I have some pictures that also show the poor condition of the building and can get more from someone that I know that's still living there.

fun guy

2y

damn that f***ing sucks man, especially given the state of the apartment, landlords are comically evil

are there any legal orgs that would advocate for you in court pro bono if you really wanted to go that route?

or maybe this could be a press story that names and shames the landlord/building company for openly discriminating against you due to your disability and race, which is illegal as you said

Vox

2y

I can't claim any race or disability based discrimination, my standing there is all related to the landlord giving me the cold shoulder when I offered to pay for the lease renewal she offered with a voucher

My disabled status can ratchet that up as a crime against a disabled person if I was able to get this through

I only mentioned the racism to speak to how s***ty this landlord is and I only know about it because my housing counselor talked to the landlord all the time for months and at some point she was just openly hating on migrants for some reason to my housing counselor there's more but that's all my housing counselor told me so far because they wanted me to look out because my homie that cosigned and I aren't white and the landlord knows that because she has pictures of our IDs

There are a lot of pro bono legal services in my area but from what I've heard so far nothing that would actually be able to handle someone that will do everything they can to smash you in small claims court

Press would be interesting but idk how to go about that

And thanks for all of this

fun guy

2y

I just hate to think about s***ty landlords getting away without facing any consequences, even though taking action isnt always tenable. good to hear u managed to find a new apartment though

I mentioned the press thing because my local tenants union has contacts in media/press who sometimes run stories about wrongful evictions/slumlords doing slumlord things, but im not sure how things work in your city

do you live in NYC?

Vox

2y

Yeah until these MFs are done away with everyone should be doing everything they can to get their get back and make sure they can't

Never seen that come up in my local TU but I'll ask someone in there about it

Nah, I'm in Boston rn

fun guy

2y

is boston really as racist as people say

fun guy

2y

@PhilipMorris has the OTU ever clashed with YIMBYs/pro-developer groups? yimbyism is neolib dogshit cloaked in "progressiveness" thats one of the most active opponents towards tenants rights, and its unfortunately becoming more embraced by the ruling class. feels like one of the most pertinent issues rn that can only be countered by organizing tenants and demonstrating how the interests of developers ≠ the interests of renters

NotoriousDonDraper

2y

I assumed she died years ago ngl. But RIP!!

Sir Real

2y

I’m sorry shouts out to her and f*** Margaret Thatcher but I have no clue what she just said s*** sounds like a Tolkien language

NotoriousDonDraper

2y

I assumed she died years ago ngl. But RIP!!

Vox

2y

If this isn't the place for this I'll delete I'm just hot and need a place to get this out of my head and potentially hear from others. Plus even though I don't post in here often, I really appreciate this thread and the bits and pieces of things I've been exposed to and learned about here.

I'm currently disabled and got a housing voucher at the beginning of December. This voucher allows me to live anywhere I want as long as the property owner agrees to it and the apartment is within the rent standard of that particular zip code.

December also marked the end of my second year long lease at my old apartment. The landlord, offered me a lease renewal at the beginning of December but pulled it as soon as I offered to pay with a voucher. I don't know if this holds true everywhere but by law that's discriminatory where I live.

My housing counselor handled all communication with the landlord from that point (she does everything exclusively over a landline and mails any necessy documents) to when I moved out on July 5th. The landline part is important because there isn't much of a paper trail. Also she's an absentee landlord that is extremely far away from the building.

However I do have an sealed and dated envelope with a lease renewal offer that the landlord mailed me before she declined my voucher.

For whatever reason, the landlord felt incredibly comfortable talking to my housing counselor and was very open about being racist, not wanting to go through the trouble of taking on my voucher in part because she knew the building would fail the mandatory inspection, refusing to comply with rental assistance etc but the only proof of that is my housing counselor's notes

The voucher doesn't cover any rent until the city establishes a contract with a property owner. Thus due to the landlord's discrimination and initial refusal to comply with rental assistance I was immediately in a dire situation that f***ed me up in multiple ways including biting on a scam of an apartment in a rush to get out that led to me getting burned for a rack.

Thankfully my housing counselor was able to convince the landlord to complete the rental assistance program and that covered my rent from January til June 2nd. I did have to send 800 dollars to the landlord as part of this application because this program only gives out rental assistance if they think you won't immediately go back into debt.

My housing counselor relays to me that the landlord sounds like she won't come after me for the rent due from June 2nd til move out because she got so much money at once and just wanted me out. I was wary of this but I'm not well and it took a lot out of me due to my disability to find the help I needed to clean, pack and move out and actually get through it so I had to focus on that.

However, between the pictures I have of the poor condition of the apartment and that sealed lease renewal I feel like I have what I need to fight off the landlord if she does come after me for the remaining rent.

The week after I moved into my new apartment my housing counselor tells me that the landlord let them know that as far as she was concerned my move meant 'case closed'.

I get a hold of the landlord the following week (last week) and not only did she want the remaining rent but she wanted to take out a portion of my security deposit for cleaning. Thankfully she was trying to do that off the word of the building manager so I was able to fight that off since I have pictures of the apartment being clean post move out.

My housing counselor and my main contact at the local tenants union agreed with me that I got f***ed over and the landlord did a bunch of terrible, illegal s*** but since 1) post move out means any rent disputes become a small claims issue and I can't match the landlord who keeps a lawyer on retainer 2) the paper trail is weak I was advised to pay the remaining rent.

As of last Friday, the landlord applied my security deposit to the remaining rent I owed and she wants me to wait until I receive documentation of that and the interest on my security deposit and last month's rent before I send a check for the remaining ~200 dollars. This + the 800 I sent adds up to 2500 dollars which is a devastating amount for me to lose and was hoping to avoid since I have a housing voucher.

I don't have much hope but I still want to look into getting that money back.

These are pictures of various displays of the condition of the apartment. The rusty looking substance coming out of the sink seal is reoccurring and when I brought it up with the building manager a while back he just threw up his hands because he had no idea what could be causing it.

I have no idea what the black stuff in the kitchen and bathroom is besides the fact that it's not mold and that it reoccurs in areas where you make contact often.

I only stood in front of the stove once every few months to charge a weed pen as I couldn't use the stove due to my disability. I'm posting those pictures to display that even a bit of contact can bring out whatever that black stuff is.

But yeah, I can answer questions but I'm just glad to get this out

(Building manager had to drill at random because of how terribly the ceiling was setup)

(Ceiling slowly collapsing in another part of my room)





(Shelf looked like that the very first day I moved in)

I have some pictures that also show the poor condition of the building and can get more from someone that I know that's still living there.

VIRGILSINTHAGROUND

2y

No f***ing shot

We gotta KILL landlords bro like yesterday also you need to get into a lihtc building they dont have these problems, because they overcharge and have a team of people willing to work and keep their investments straight

VIRGILSINTHAGROUND

2y

No f***ing shot

We gotta KILL landlords bro like yesterday also you need to get into a lihtc building they dont have these problems, because they overcharge and have a team of people willing to work and keep their investments straight

Sir Real

2y

I’m sorry shouts out to her and f*** Margaret Thatcher but I have no clue what she just said s*** sounds like a Tolkien language

Elric

2y

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im usually s***e for accents but maybe going to England and Ireland last year helped. when asked if Thatcher did any good, her response was;

"not a bit of good, not a bit. id put a stake through her heart and a garrot around her neck to make sure she never comes back"