You know, I have lived in Wetumka Housing Authority for going on 17 years now, I think. I say I think because I stopped counting after 15 years. In fact, I’m still in the same unit in the Wetumka Housing Authority right now. That might change, though, because the executive director (ED) is mad that I reported him to the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). After all, it took him three months to address a kitchen leak that was under the kitchen sink cabinet. Now he is threatening eviction so that he will not have to deal with my mother or me anymore. It is so bad that my mother is worried that he might actually do it. I say let him, since he has been breaking Oklahoma law regarding tenants' rights.
He told both my mother and me that he would give us five weeks, and he would do another inspection. Personally, I think he saw some of the things I have been posting since the ED is friends with me on Facebook. One of the things I posted was the Oklahoma law regarding entry of a tenant's home. That included the right the tenant has to get a notice 24 hours before the landlord can even show up at the unit. Well, while I was in the shower, the Wetumka Housing Authority finally gave out a notice about an inspection for tomorrow. This would suggest that the ED has seen my posts, but to wait until the day before the inspection to give a notice is unacceptable in my humble opinion. So, will we be allowed to stay, or will we be evicted because an ED was threatened to be fired by HUD? Only time will tell.
I guess in the end, all the reports to HUD disappeared, as this would have happened sooner. Then again, HUD supports this kind of Behavior from all the public housing authorities (PHA) that get funding from HUD. That means that HUD will always encourage breaking the law or getting rid of tenants they don’t want anymore by any means necessary. So I wonder why they would wait until now to try to force an eviction? Is HUD really that dense and has no clue what goes on in the PHA’s it funds, or is it that they just simply don’t care? After all, HUD doesn’t really seem to want to do any kind of investigation that deals with tenants' complaints. It seems that all HUD wants to do is nothing at all unless people start showing others how they work on some level. Better yet, all HUD does is forward all complaints to the PHA when the tenant is asking HUD for help with the issue.
What HUD does not understand is that people will most likely not want to be in any PHA, since all HUD will do is side with the PHA without even looking into the issues tenants are having with said PHA. HUD also fails to understand that doing nothing for the tenants undermines the view that all tenants have when it comes to HUD and their mission to help people get a home. Maybe that’s why HUD does nothing, but I don’t think so. It has to be something else. Why else would HUD encourage PHAs to break laws or get rid of tenants? After all, it seems that HUD has no problems with tenants of PHAs littering the PHAs with non-functioning vehicles. It also seems that HUD has no problem with PHAs creating lawn damage to the tenants' lawn and then charging the tenants to address such damage. I wonder what else HUD has no problem ignoring when it comes to tenants that are having issues with the PHA that they are living in? Only time will tell, I guess. In the end, it is what it is, and there is no point in worrying about it.