Catholic Charities

Not much room here so I'm going to keep it cut and dry so you get just the facts as much as I can get in here but won't be much. The manager gave the building including me bed bugs 3 plus years ago on paper they show they're doing something about it but they are not the bookkeeping is creative at best they don't even know what's owed so how can we and won't reconcile the books they've charged me for two full months rent and I've been on housing since at least January 23rd 2018 I reported it to the Spokane housing authority they said it's between me and my landlord .I signed a lease July 16th 2024 to move to apartment 410 in the same building temporarily while they did my floors was waiting for it to be inspected to move in it got inspected past I was never given the keys nor the go ahead to move in and they have since now rented it even though it's rented to me until next month that's fraud and when asked all they could say is I just don't know why you haven't gotten the keys or you got to move yet they used my dog to terrorize me into thinking that I'm going to be out on the streets again so after chipping away at my mental health I finally surrendered her and now I can't get her back .I had her 14 years and that alone is enough to make me walk away and go out on the streets .

I'm evicted every other month I've been living out of boxes for at least a year and the bed bugs are eating me alive and nobody cares that's it in a nutshell I have proof of everything I just said and more they said that we were going to have 24-hour staff in the building we don't they said it was a secure building it is not there's no door knobs on the second and third floor on the stairs nor is the alarms on and the 4th floor you can get on the elevator and go up by just pushing the button without using a fob it'll just go up by itself .On paper they not only show that they're coming in and doing something about the bed bugs or that they did multiple appointments which they did not but on paper they show that they have fixed my floors 4 years ago I reported water damage that was caused by two wax rings that had slipped on the toilet and was pouring water down in the floorboards for about a year maybe a year and a half and according to the maintenance guy when asked said they had already done my floors on paper I'm sure that they did for their bosses absolutely but did they, they did not . So the drain in my bathroom if you step on it one more time you will fall through the floor literally I had to take street signs because they're so durable put them on the floor and caulk them to the floor then paint over them, because the bed bugs were coming up through the floor like a super highway it's been a little over 3 years since the landlord gave them to us and the infestation now is so bad from so much time passing before they did anything and when they did do something it was one squirt on each side of the bed literally and then they made me sign a paper saying that I wouldn't move or change rooms to sleep in that I would continue getting ate up in the same room because then I would spread them it said I was hit with the 10-day notice to comply or vacate for failing to report the bed bugs properly when in fact I told the landlord that my friend that had passed away had them then she personally cleaned out his apartment had his stuff appraised gave some of it to the people in the building personally knocking on their doors and giving him bed bugs at the same time and then refusing to come in and spray oh yeah I'll pay for their showing that they areI'm blowing them out of my nose they're in my ears they're in my mouth when I spit out the water when I brush my teeth and I wipe them off when I *** my mental health has dwindled let me tell you they say that they work with spokanimal to ensure that the homeless people that are being housed can keep their animals when in fact they bullied me out of mind to the point where I was sure that I was going to end up on the streets again where I've been pretty much since I was 12 with my dog which wasn't fair to her so after chipping away to me or her so finally gave in andI surrendered her to the basset hound rescue Judy Brown has her and she said she's fine she's mine and I'm keeping her till the end of time and won't give her back.

I died that day inside and I die a little more everyday living like a sewer rat in the Catholic charities Donna Hansen Haven apartments were there not just the biggest landlords in the United States but the biggest slumlords in the United States I've contacted the archdiocese of Spokane , Pope Leo himself the department of health and human services , the Spokane housing authority of Spokane, the attorney general of Washington State, who says it's not something his office looks into. that{{Redacted}} it's not something his office investigates and housing said it was between me and my landlord I'm contacting you and I'm not done there I did Facebook read it I'm going to do the better Business bureau the Federal trade commission and anybody and everybody else that I can think of because people need to know that we are living like this we're being forced to live like this but on paper it shows that they're doing all this great stuff it said we were going to have on-site chemical dependency and mental health treatment we have none of that it said once we got in our units we could stay for life in fact 95% of the people I moved in with we're homeless within like the first year it said we were going to pay 30% of our income and we had to prove that we could afford to live here and that's not true either 98% of the people have never paid a dime and some apartments are on their 4th and 5th tenant and it's only been open 6 years and the water damage due to the neglect from the management it's just unbelievable the floors are getting ready to fall in on the 4th floor and my apartment and the apartment next to me because they were left and dried well water will keep going and keep going and keep going until it dissipates or finds a way out but these guys don't care they don't care and as long as they don't care then they make it so that we have to continue living like this because nobody else cares either because everybody believes what they say when in fact it's all for show for the investors because that's all they care about is the money not the people not keeping people housed not getting people off the streets because then they wouldn't have a job so let's be honest they don't really want to help the homeless they just want the money that comes with it I've gone to help me Haley with numerous complaints when we went 18 months without fire extinguishers in the building until I continue to contact Catholic Charities through Messenger which I have documented almost everything for the last 3 years I have recorded what I told him I was recording meetings every time we met with the landlords or the managers they refuse to reconcile the books they refuse to keep up on the building all they want is the rent help me Haley says it's a fight she's not willing to fight because of Catholic Charities there's no attorney that will go up against them so they just keep breaking into cash and don't have to do anything at all to rectify this situation nobody holds them accountable at all so let him kick me out my life is ruined I have no hope had there have been wrapped around services what they like what they said and they told us we could stay for Life once we got in our unit which none of what they said when they blessed the building on November 18th 2017 when Rachel Alexander from the Spokane review wrote the article quoting Rob McCain CEO and president of Catholic Charities nothing it was all for show for the investors I got wrote up one time for my dog running through the building without a leash when really in fact what happened the back door opened she came in ducked underneath I didn't quite latch her leash in time and somebody that worked at the building was walking towards her towards the back door towards us and she called her and she ran up to her I got a ride up three days later from housing and the next day from the building for allowing my dog to run through the building without a loose when in fact another tenant has two dogs and she doesn't even own a leash or a harness or a collar for either of her dogs never been on one the entire time she's lived here and never had anything said to her another tenant has a dog who also does not even own a leash a collar or a harness and if never owned one and his dogs never been on one and nobody said anything to him I got a right up for not being nice to staff because I hurt my back moving in here and it was hard for me to take my dog downstairs to go to the bathroom but every day first thing in the morning I would take my dog down and every day this lady would say how are you and I would finally I said I'm *** and I'm going to be *** until my back is better so please stop asking me 3 days later I got to write it from housing the next day I got right up from the building and I've talked to people and nobody else has even ever been turned into housing for anything let alone something so frivolous is that and discriminatory those are just a couple case in points I have more when I had my dog 12 times a year or more the elevator would be out sometimes for two or three days sometimes for a week which was really hard my dog had bad hips getting her up and down the stairs to go to the bathroom so she began peeing because she couldn't wait long enough to go down four flights of stairs to go to the bathroom I would clean it up but I would get in trouble because my dog was having accidents nobody else even cleans up their dog's accidents since my I've not had my dog the elevator has been broken once they got it fixed the same day I don't believe in coincidences I really don't they've changed five policies that I know for a fact that made my life easier like the laundry rooms are locked on nice holidays and weekends and whenever they forget to open them up they're still locked too all day all night nobody can do their laundry you would think that you would want us to do our laundry as much in this option as we can nope and by the time they do unlock them you don't have the money anymore that's fair that's just and rather than help people get their social security or their ABD they just let people live here for free they don't care they don't even try every 3 to 6 months we get new counselors because they just get trained they just get started helping you and they move them so that on paper it shows that they're helping you but they don't actually have to help you cuz the next one comes in they just they got to get trained they just get started yeah well you know the rest then they're switched we've had five managers and six years I received a write-up for that I would like to go on and tell you more and tell you everything but Im running out of room however there is a picture that is in the pictures that I gave to you guys where there looks like there's a whole bunch of huge pile of trash like the garbage stuff that's right outside of a tenants door for pretty close to 8 months maybe a little bit longer before Connie the district or the manager over all the managers for Catholic Charities manager over all the managers Connie told the maintenance guy with me standing right there to knock on the door and ask her to take all that back into her apartment I said stop the stupid train why would you do that it's already outside knock on the door and tell her to help you take it down to the garbage she goes whatever so that's what they did so I wouldn't have been there it would have gone right back into the tenants apartment for around 8 months approximately that's the way they manage these buildings there's way more but I'm out of room and you get the idea stop stop by I have proof of everything I'd be glad to show you

My lights are off and they send you a email to make a appointment with housing crisis hotline and other agencies right now I can't get help no where and I called other places these agencies are said and they don't care about you they are a waste of time you live down south or New York City anywhere else they will reach out to you and help Newport News is not the place to ask for help not many jobs either I'm mad angry and hurting you call yourself christian people christian people don't turn their backs on people churches and do too not even department of human services help that's why a lot of people leave VA to get better help I give them a zero even thrive salvation army is worthless united way won't help.

I had a horrible experience with their psychiatrist, Dr. Stancov.

It was my first meeting with her and I was in a bad mood (a symptom of the reason I was there). She asked me a question I did not want to answer but because she continued to press, I relented and answered her question. After I answered her question she continued to escalate the confrontation. I asked her if she really wanted to continue escalating the argument and she continued with her barrage of incendiary comments.

I pointed out that I had answered her question and that should have ended what was ultimately a power struggle of her creation. Furthermore rather than seeing me as a symptomatic patient, she played the ultimate power move and threatened not to treat me. I wish I had left, because what ensued during the rest of the visit was as damaging as the violence with which she acted. Adding to my unease was her physical presentation.

Her hair appeared matted and her clothing was disheveled. This did nothing to inspire confidence.