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TheArlingtonSqueeze2021
PilingOn2021
20210909b.InspectionProcess.HP.txt
AttemptedMurderByInspections2019
21dot30RetalitoryEviction2015
...
SomeOfHowThePoorIsKilledByTheSystems2012
all in one nasty synergistic package...
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So moving back to Arlington
after my father died,
came up on the Section 8/Voucher
list after a decade or so waiting,
trying to be mid county,
from the IsLand of MountVernon
near Comprehensive Day TreatMent (CDT),
so much time spent commuting by bus, bicycle, etc
a couple shelters
Bailey's CrossRoads
HypoThermia at FallsChurchWinterShelter,
MondLoch House,
finally into
PathWays Shelter Plus Care,
after had first offered Reston,
but too far out and flip flop opposite
North from South,
trying to get back how i had started,
FairFax didn't have anything
that i could find,
toured/visited one place
just over the county line
dead pests (insects) left in the cabinets,
at least they sprayed, right?
but didn't bother cleaning them up to show?
only to end up where mice infested
and gang/ LatinX dominated
AndTheHorseYouRodeInOn2011
DearBedBugs2013
IcedGreenTea2014
a self move from one
into what ended up being even smaller,
MountVeron 2nd place
had a washer dryer in the unit,
swimming pool, gym,
a basement underneath,
but problems like broken out windows,
gang like encroachments,
later a rat, literally living under My balcony/
patio, likely from stream out back,
a short rat commute from fast food
on the HighWay,
trash left on T parking spots,
only to be left at certain times
(not working so not up then,
nocturnal military boots on thin floors
waking me odd hours, stress, etc)
a pickup/ flat bed truck came by
and condenses/ hauled to one
bigger spot, iirc
then went to dumpsters,
loud noisy things
waking up,
vermin problems, skunk,
feral cat, and feral cat tenders/
caretakers, etc...
3 Story Garden apartments
(2 down (laundry/ storage
towards no windowed front)
4 main,
4 up)
to more density,
in Arlington,
less lawns, space,
more units per building
top floor (3 or 4?),
bottom 2 back laundry down,
4
4 and looking out on parking lot,
motorcycle totaled in a space out front,
(LatinX/AfricanAmerican
maintenance didn't see nothing,
(sounds mob like no?)
similar problems with flat tires,
on mom's borrowed car
pan handling
while friends of the family
visited/ dropped off,
see where and how it was,
and threatening/ menacing
screws found in tires,
while parking in view,
but then trashed again,
on hill on Xmas day,
likely gang related,
Something came up,
a new building,
have to get on a list,
another wait list,
big long lines outside the building,
i was living in,
so might as well apply,
then don't have floor plans (total sq ft lost?),
many didn't move, (as didn't like it)
somehow i seemed staff,
to many who hadn't lived in any
of the complexes,
invasions of privacy,
people wanting a space
lining up outside your complex
building door, and as white
and generally bossy,
assumed staff,
got on the wait list,
had priority, as already a resident
of that system, and was lied to
that had priority, then denied,
and had to assert that right,
statement,
fight for Transferred between
complexes/ buildings...
Into what turns out a smaller place,
seems big going in,
as no stuff,
old: mice problems,
new building,
had/ has elevator,
and having trouble walking up
the 3 flights up
especially in heat,
after long rides, out to Reston,
carrying groceries,
eventually find food being delivered
and qualify,
disAbled means income is low,
with a work history rarely low enough
for FoodStamps now SNAP,
but not never
ThePracticalitiesOfFoodDistribution2012
back into Food Pantry to make
ends meet (not al monetary,
some transport getting it home)
as had to get storage,
smaller means lose stuff,
and memory problems,
so lost life line/ time segments,
earlier medicated away parts of my life
that ruminate on:
tech and other career(s),
loss of relatives,
relationships not working out,
romantic and otherwise,
odd white slavery type problems,
gang/ hood problems,
DearBedBugs2013
TheTrashGuy2013
Try the new place,
sleep on the floor,
see if the noises bother me,
man made noises, oddly the rain
on the roof/ flashing/ eves loud,
(think Chinese water torture,
drip, drip, drip,
more drip,
when will it end,
drip,
drip,
SCReam)
but natural so somehow OK,
but out the windows people noise
sometimes deliberately,
given the smallest unit
by threatening to poison
"senior?" "manager"
Transferred and
given extra time to move
as a reasonable accommodation,
bad manglement eventually moves
on, a worse shows up,
Pestilence2016
PestProblems2021
Original transition from FairFaxCounty,
MountVernon,
it takes even longer,
harassing calls about a dog
i didn't even have
(but wanted and put on form)
you can't have a dog here,
some of my first LatinX problems,
basically a we don't want you here,
but have to take applications,
some other person gotten rid of,
maybe a problem some way, idk,
likely what is being done to me now,
making room for others
by killing off people,
perhaps like nursing homes,
my mother thinking they are killing people
to make space, if people don't visit,
then they are not cared for,
and roving predators,
would hurt people if didn't pay / give
the nightmarish scenario of
getting older, while an older white guy
there in the denser garden apartment
had been clubbed/ knocked out,
remembering commuting, so much by bus,
and a death threat/ going to kill someone
i try talking the guy out of it,
only blocks from where i am now,
having lived in North Arlington ina house
when i had an old childhood dog and job,
2 Porsche 914s, first motorcycle a 250CC
dirt bike bought around Ft. Myer
had garage, yard, Honda Accord
hand me down from deceased cousin
and a trip across country deliver to
Santa Rosa California,
as dying of AIDS needed transit
then my mother bought it after he died,
i bought from her,
he was later on the AIDS Quilt
and we had traveled a bit up
to relatives, as i'm getting reminders from
gPhotos of years/ decade(s) gone by,
lost another uncle, aunt before that,
other relatives, small and older
gone, grown, changed a lot
by all the losses...
My maternal uncle
(mother's much older brother)
committed suicide when terminal
with cancer, something i had thought i
might do when faced with similar problems,
having been a civilian with military
seemed the things people do,
some crazy ideas of honor,
self sacrifice, and duty,
really a bad scar legacy to leave
behind a death like that,
too young to know, at that point,
later becoming an uncle myself
and at least one wanting me dead,
joking or not, cruel, mean,
sick, etc...
So density goes inside as well,
since couldn't / wouldn't give a den,
and smaller smaller,
each inspection, have too much stuff,
most people increase in space,
this even before reached 50
and going on 60 somehow
in the decline of my life
not expansion,
as most would want and guess,
a less than and
Arlington doesn't like our poor
an offshoot of the City
and Millennial/ Yuppie/
culture, drinking too, bars
and kids, etc, don't want to be
DC, Virginia is different,
RedNeck, not the city problems,
but really some of the same,
while the color balance/ racial
ethnic demographics, more so on
North Arlington, single family homes,
density and projects more in South,
much less West, bordering problem
areas in more suburban,
transit rich, resource poor,
areas, GentrificationKills
and happens in Virginia,
Arlington, Alexandria, etc
too...
Someone is doing a photo
show of Loudoun (sp?) County
growth too...
Modified Text
What's Missing?
a clear well stated point,
off on old wounds, /Rants?
got tired,
and lost focus, mid overnight
0359a
and had woken a while after midNight,
down early can't deal with many things
and catch up on therapy type
drivel...
What Can Be Found?
What Can Not Be Found?
How To Analyze?
Lenses
Noob
Not understanding/ hear/
believe/ denying
GentrificationKills
and other supposedly
SMartGrowth
squeezes out people...
Displacement/ diaspra
in modern time
and local places...
Kid(s)
What happened to the old
people? where did/ do they go?
I don't know guess
not all were lost by ConVid19
maybe they just were too tired
to come in, from out somewhere
else...
You mean we got rid of them?
Maybe Like Logan's Run
their time was up?
/FaceLessSMile
Dis/Diss/Dys/Hiss/Etc
Known problems with the
services in Virginia, from
State Run Hospitals,
mental especially,
Institute
TrainingCenters formerly MR/
now ID
Waivers, SupremeCourt
OlmStead,
UniVersities,
TheShortOfIt
GeneralPublic
Many used to say MaryLand
had better, and likely still does,
the tax base in Virginia, a lot like
Texas, and the death penalty,
criminal justice system reflected it
cheaper to live in Virginia,
but putting into a system that
doesn't put much out,
service wise,
investing in something
where there isn't really any returns,
as most really don't even care...
Assumptions
Time Limits
PanDemic thinning the herd?
Baby Boomers
aging out?
Yearly Inspections
PilingOn2021
20210909b.InspectionProcess.HP.txt
AttemptedMurderByInspections2019
Inspectionz2018
IcedGreenTea2014
SlumLords2013
SomeOfHowThePoorIsKilledByTheSystems2012
Book Data
Originally the Squeeze
published on financial
elsewhere...
ISBN
Bound
CopyRight
Pages
index
Links
TheArlingtonSqueeze2021
LidlParkSideFoldingAluminumPlatFormTruck2021
PilingOn2021
20210909b.InspectionProcess.HP.txt
TheDigitalDitch2021
PoliticalHateCrimes2021
OutSideDogs2021
Vaccinated2021
AprilFoolsDay2021
(PanDemic aside?
PandemicWareHouse2020
ConVid19ContinuesIn2020
HeatProblemsWithConVid19Hours2020
ConVid19WalkInTesting2020
AbusesInTheNameOfViralEmergency2020
JustSayNoToConVid2020
)
WhiteLivesMatter2020
CharlieDanielsPassed2020
GettingProduceBoxAlmostKilledMe2020
AttemptedMurderByInspections2019
HateFaireZ2019
EmailListRoadKill2018
Hate2017
AnUnEventfulWeekend2017
ChuckBrownAnniversary2016
ChuckBrownPassed
OldClownsHome2015
21dot30RetalitoryEviction2015
BikersAndDrunks2015
RobinFlewTheCoup2014
IcedGreenTea2014
SlumLords2013
RetailDiscrimination2012
SomeOfHowThePoorIsKilledByTheSystems2012
ArlingtonHousingCommissionMeeting2011
3FootPassingBillFailed2011
ComeOutOfTheSewingCloset2011
BadWill2011
HippieClownCamp2011
AVeteransSonLaughsAndSpitsAtMe2011
AutismLinks
Autreat2012
MoreAutreat2011PostProcessing
Autreat2011
SomeGoodThingsAboutAutreat
Autreat2010Foods
Autreat2010PoorPitifulMeAndTheTreatmentsIRantOn
MyFatherPassedAwayLastNight
20070425ArlHousingFirst
ArlingtonHousingFirstEvent
Memorial Pages
PatrickAsSaint
PatrickSnow
David O'Brien Memorial
TheShortOfIt
JudiChamberlinPassesAway
Judi Chamberlin
Judi
IveBeenEdited
Judgemental
SomePublishedWorks
David Mangano's Ombudsman presentation slides
Establish regional consumer ombudsmen
Ombuds.proposal.ods
Ombuds.proposal.pdf
OmbudsProposalPublicDisclosure
/GoFish
difficult to find all the related
stuff to housing and problems
therein
HousingCompared2011
for example
likely more...
Conclusion
Summary of experience or similar
Not sure how it ends,
probably badly,
as less and less people care
and lost many of those who did,
TheMagicOfDarla
helped make it work
when in Supported Project Based
Section 8,
and differences between jurisdictions
money levels, budget problems,
focus on different things over time,
AmazonVille2018
pushes housing, density,
transit,
and basically wholesale
AmericaforSaleCheap
at the local levels...
Bike advocacy
BikersAndDrunks2015
AfricanAmericansDon'tBike2011
StoppedByPoliceTodayInOldTown
Times when one policeman
(Wilson?)
seemed to define things
and race relations,
over the years more and more
GeorgeFloydRiots2020
MarcusDavidPetersADULT2021
a while movement
BLM
counter WhiteLivesMatter2020
MeToo
Some think old people are supposed to
just go away, walk into the desert and
not return
Other cultures care for their elderly,
and keep them in the family homes
others push out the teens,
old enough to work,
having babies, do it elsewhere,
not here, get a job, etc...
And disabled somewhere in between,
can't work, general definition of disAbled,
only 10-20% do work while disAbled,
recovery model might suggest more,
this blogging, a non paid, volunteer,
therapy type thing brings up issues
experienced as a MH person,
survivor, mostly, but will end somehow,
even if don't know how,
now... NoBody lives for Ever,
NoBody,
Legacy2020
Legacy2019
Legacy2017
Lout2020
Lout2020.PBWorks.com.txt
Loot2020
started that trend,
some migration off PBworks
which requires updating to keep
this online,
backing off,
refactoring,
and some sort of carry over,
transition team?
As a biker, i've thought, well before
VisionZero, my time could be up
at any time, some truck/bus/
car/ inattentive driver,
even heat, heart, gang,
etc problems,
given my father had heart problems
and health declined losing him
at about 72? years old,
the 20 year discount for MH
lifespans, likely a lot of these
poverty, lack of care
unaddressed,
on top of stigma,
Hate2017
PoliticalHateCrimes2021
rising with tRump,
etc...
Likely to get worse before,
if it ever gets better,
Election year,
month before that,
and politically charged attacks
left and right...
Far Right, etc,
Discussion
A place for feedback on the page presented
What do you think will end you?
Why?
Why Not?
Cancer?
Car Accident?
DrugOverDose?
GangViolence?
Self Inflicted?
Self harm?
Euthanasia?
No OldClownsHome2015
to move into?
So no transition plan?
Never think of tomorrow?
Can't bear the problems
most elderly face?
No piece of cake?
Getting old isn't for the faint of heart?
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