MCoGArlFairHousingZoom2021
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Introduction/Definition/etc
Metro (Washington) Council of Governments
(M(W)CoG)
Arlington Fair Housing
on Zoom
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have to ask for accommodations
(like a black man asking
giving notice for setting up a lynching?)
and an Public EnGagement company
with a likely hired contractor presenting
data on Arlington then a Focus Group
like BreakOut Rooms
where basically nobody was heard
afaict
unless you were saying what they wanted
to hear...
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Some data and graphics presented
a plan, and looking for input,
so they said,
hour plus into it
and then
split up into
3 BreakOut Rooms,, smaller gatherings
where supposed to elect/self assign
a chair and notetaker
in 15-30 minutes or so
are supposed to report out/
describe 2 barriers
and 2 solutions
the one i was in,
#3 DisAbled/ Persons with disAbilites,
or similar title
there is typical who's on first,
i was only typing on the smart phone,
late in the day and arrived late,
dreading stuff like this,
but they wanted introductions
previously in big group
I know one person there
Doris Ray of EnDependence Center
having met with them for Drop In Center
development back in the day
(going on 10+ years ago now?
Not to tell too much of other's stories
but she's blind, and on the phone,
i'm typing on the zoom chat,
with a smart phone,
the baud rate (Speed) v. people talking
voice and on video is very one sided,
another EnDependence center employee
and staff all over the place,
so 2 Consumers/ one a prosumer,
and a parent, who ended up with
most of the air /group time
They wanted barriers
and i gave this website
NoVAPeers.PBWorks.com
as lists examples of problems
and they couldn't see/ view it,
it would kick them out of the chat,
so basically all my (bad) experiences
up here weren't even heard,
but near the end,
we need to have at least something
from Jerry
which in the report out
and downplayed that
only one person
(of 2 besides her?)
something about wanting to go to Japan
(which has no basis in what
i'd said there at all) i guess since
i didn't agree that everyone wants
to live in Group Homes and
mentioned Aspie like...
I was dumped out of the BreakOutRoom
not sure why/ how,
timers going at 10, 5, 3
or whatever time intervals
and only a few minutes left
no way to join back to the small group/room,
a pressure situation typically not good for disAbled,
many have more time
reasonable accommodations,
when really not being heard at all,
one woman in the large group
snarkily?
oh i thought we were at the Arlington Fair Housing,
restating the name after
the chair/ likely a contractor
didn't hear anything she was saying,
from what i could tell,
there as a lot of
diversity, perhaps trendy and ReverseDiscrimination?
and people with home,
started thinking of Rosanne Barr
old line the problem with you
government people is you have
jobs, describing her time in
the unemployment line or similar...
Statistics and how to be statistic
data and planning,
not anything on
quality of services delivered,
number of people who died,
say getting eviction notices,
sheriff/ deputy at the door,
and the aftermath of that,
the graphics must have been useless
to Doris Ray, blind, and no accommodation
there that i could tell,
scatter plots, and percentages,
basically meaningless to most,
unless you compiled the data
or a policy wonk most of the time
anyways, and across the
Region/ DC / MaryLand/ Virginia
noting the mostly white NorthWestern
Arlington, and some diversity along
Metro corridors, maybe 244 (Col Pike?)
and a rich area near Pentagon City?
accessing the housing is a problem
Many things seemed to focus
on equity and a diverse group
presenter LatinX
some African American
Asian Pacific?
and those are the viewable people
mostly well kept houses
some blurred out
though a dog in the background
became visible
about the time i mentioned
a golden retriever service animal
they were going towards
extra rooms for caretakers
and providing rent free
and some other thing that the county
decided not to implement
some time ago...
one guy flooding the chat early on
chair asks is that a full name?
last name? what?
so who you are?
and a titled gentry type of approach,
do we have to call him/ them Sir,
Ma'am and cowtow (sp?) to
the academics/ statistics?
Some acronym AI
(Adjusted Income?)
mentioned and never defined
but this is high level planning stuff,
the details, the devil is in the details
and implementation
they already have ideas of what
they want to do
and only looking for focus group
like justification
So much got not/unheard,
twisted, and basically ignored,
what i did type on smartphone
got mangled
and typos
getting frustrated and annoyed
while this PC like we have a protocol
and that is not what we are here for,
when supposedly public engagement,
which really means next to nothing
in Politically Correct (PC) language, afaict...
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What's Missing?
actually listening and caring
what?
"can't you live with your parents?"
"both have died" /are dead
got no response that i could tell
What Can Be Found?
slides, statistics, and damn lies,
perhaps even fraud,
someone at the end may have said
report to the governor and
explain how you are wasting his money
and this will be why you aren't getting paid
What Can Not Be Found?
channels where people aren't filtered
useful software, Zoom start up a
browser process and leave in the
background, not kick out of Zoom,
spawn a process to view a link
they can give out a survey link
but we can't give links
of things to look at,
and the screen share could
have shown it,
but not an option afaict
How To Analyze?
Lenses
Noob
Focus group in beaurcracy
(sp?) basically circumlocution department
we can't hear you,
as that's not really our protocol,
what we are doing here,
we get paid, we don't listening
and twist what little we do hear
into what we wanted to hear
Mr. T: I Pity the Fool who goes to there
Kid(s)
Past most kids bedtime
hence not talking
and some things read back out
including the link name
and my name
but filtering?
and somehow second class citizen
Dis/Diss/Dys/Hiss/Etc
Competing interests
say you have a pet project
and were lobbying for it,
if the planets align you might get heard,
but would have to a professional lobbyist
to get anything through the mayhem
process that is used,
more ignoring and pretending to hear,
twisting things,
we don't understand you,
marginalizing, ostracizing,
you have to be like us,
the rich, paid and happy,
otherwise you don't count,
see employed people,
that's all we care about
An OAR Offender Aid & Restoration:
"we have people with no income
not just low" or very similar,
and some people in a different small group
recommended looking into income discrimination
and other unrecognized protected
classes
GeneralPublic
Man does this seem like an inside
job, the jargon, and inbreeding?
transparency would be one thing,
but seems like more staff than
citizens, customers, and even
then didn't really hear anything
that i can think of,
PDF will be available,
more BS not heard in the first
place and pat themselves on the
back for pretending to listen?
Assumptions
can't fight city hall right?
government gives organizations
a bad name, hence a lot of frustration
and leading to tRump like Republicans
and others trying to Drain the Swamp
Time Limits
bore people with statistics
bully pulpit to start,
demand order
and this is how we are doing things
then try to stay in the time limits,
organizationally people don't have
time, can't talk til we give you data,
and in the BreakOutRooms,
only place we are set up to listen,
then you have to have the answers
already and Solve it for them,
when really set up not to hear anything
and only confirm their misconceptions/
one sided views
Book Data
How to Lie with Statistics
and graphs
charts,
Like ThanksGiving
Alice'sRestaurant Blind Justice
8x10 glossies of the crime scene,
littering dumped trash
where there was other trash,
and a helicopter taking photos,
go to court, and the judge is blind,
seeing eye dog...
see
HippieClownCamp2011
for maybe a link
ISBN
Bound
CopyRight
Pages
index
Links
300+ screen shots of the event
many duplicates, trying to get
transcription, but likely bad timing
if the transcription is even close
like ClosedCaptioning many errors
https://photos.app.goo.gl/UzGGeH7aGFSyTruG7
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Elsewhere
anywhere but here
don't want your kind here
unfortunately that was the feeling
when anything was even heard
and not twisted into the opposite
or others are more important
than you, we are professionals,
but the reason you are doing this
is to get public input, but you
don't care what we have to say,
and only heard excuses, afaict.
Many other pages up here
related to Housing
and Rights, disabled
and Civil...
You'd have to care enough
to read any of it,
much less be assigned
tasked to parse and digest
all of it...
Conclusion
Summary of experience or similar
so at the end i typed in the chat
"looks like i'm going to be homeless"
as a blank faced woman
and male voice/ chair:
happens every/ all the time
really they just don't care
have their cushy contracts
and government jobs
and basically a farce/
fraud, afaict,
We can't look at a link
because we chose software
that doesn't work
"I know the
TheDigitalDitch2021
"
how many have you dumped there?
pretending to meet a statutory
requirement for public input,
but really not, as don't really listen,
nor care, at all, afaict...
"At least it wasn't Team$"
I'm still fuming and have slept
some on it...
Thinking on it later,
i don't recall anything about
Mental Health DisAbilities
in the list of protected classes,
housing typically only considers
the physical characteristics,
ADA compliance of
paddle type door handles,
height from wheel chairs,
rails and roll in bathtubs/
showers, stairs and people
with disabilities typically end up
on ground floors, since elevators
would be out in the event of a fire,
but predatory, noise and safety
issues, plus many institutionalized
bigotry/ bias towards disAbled
many just plain criminal,
and similar to race/ethnicity
so including disAbled in
Equity as a protected class,
mental health, intellectual,
substance abuse, the typical
silos of Human Services,
besides income source
(benefits, voucher/ grant)
etc...
Discussion
A place for feedback on the page presented
What public input sessions/
focus groups have you been to?
Anything like
PublicInPutProcess2021
?
how did it go?
were you heard?
can you say that anything positive came
out of it?
how?
get in the data in the final report?
or have to have someone advocate for you
because somehow you don't speak
PC BullShit?
and why is it done during the
build up to Elections?
How Republicans get even for
likely having lost the last election?
In the Developer's pockets?
The Big Easy North?
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Page History
20211025 Jerry
- adding some name Metro (Washington) in CoG
- and other stuff
- Mental Health and ID/ Substance Abuse to
- DisAbled protected classes
- with some stub type characteristics
- besides just physical disAbilities
- the invisible ones exist and are legitimate as well
-
20211022 Jerry
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