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I'm moving today from transitional housing to section 8 project based permanent housing. Some of you may know, there are programs that exist to 'pledge' money to apartment complexes and stuff for the high move-in costs associated with moving for low-income residents, like myself.
When I inquired about getting documentation so I could raise pledges for my move, I was told that the apartment complex does not accept pledges. Fair enough. A little weird, because I've never heard of a project-based complex NOT accommodating low-income people in that way, but hey, fair enough.
THEN, the story was "Oh, we accept pledges, but they have to be faxed to us and the organization must give you a check to bring to us before you can sign the lease." Alriiiiight. Organizations don't work that way. They don't give ME the money. They're pledging it to YOU on MY behalf.
So I called the organization I was looking for help from directly, and they told me they worked with Rasputin* at J.C. Apartments all the time, and he knows how pledges work and he just accepted one from them.
The woman at the organization then asked me an odd question. She asked me my last name. I told her, and she asked if it was of hispanic origin. I confirmed that yes, I am hispanic.
She replied, 'Ah. I'll have my manager call him and I'll call you back.'
I suspect, maybe unfairly, that Rasputin has a reputation for discriminating against hispanic residents.
I sign the lease (if he lets me after cause so much trouble) in less than two hours. If he so much as tries to delay my move in by one day, I'm taking it to his superiors.
*Name changed.
P.S. If I am wrong and this is all a misunderstanding, trust me, I will be relieved and I will let the subject drop. I would prefer to be misunderstanding the situation than to move into an apartment complex with a discriminating landlord.
ETA: If it turns out that I have a case for discrimination, should I roll with it? What should I seek? I don't want money, and I don't want to cost someone their job. I don't want to make things with my new landlord more tense than they have to be. I don't want to be THAT person who takes something to court for something trivial...
I am conflicted on the what ifs.
I'm moving today from transitional housing to section 8 project based permanent housing. Some of you may know, there are programs that exist to 'pledge' money to apartment complexes and stuff for the high move-in costs associated with moving for low-income residents, like myself.
When I inquired about getting documentation so I could raise pledges for my move, I was told that the apartment complex does not accept pledges. Fair enough. A little weird, because I've never heard of a project-based complex NOT accommodating low-income people in that way, but hey, fair enough.
THEN, the story was "Oh, we accept pledges, but they have to be faxed to us and the organization must give you a check to bring to us before you can sign the lease." Alriiiiight. Organizations don't work that way. They don't give ME the money. They're pledging it to YOU on MY behalf.
So I called the organization I was looking for help from directly, and they told me they worked with Rasputin* at J.C. Apartments all the time, and he knows how pledges work and he just accepted one from them.
The woman at the organization then asked me an odd question. She asked me my last name. I told her, and she asked if it was of hispanic origin. I confirmed that yes, I am hispanic.
She replied, 'Ah. I'll have my manager call him and I'll call you back.'
I suspect, maybe unfairly, that Rasputin has a reputation for discriminating against hispanic residents.
I sign the lease (if he lets me after cause so much trouble) in less than two hours. If he so much as tries to delay my move in by one day, I'm taking it to his superiors.
*Name changed.
P.S. If I am wrong and this is all a misunderstanding, trust me, I will be relieved and I will let the subject drop. I would prefer to be misunderstanding the situation than to move into an apartment complex with a discriminating landlord.
ETA: If it turns out that I have a case for discrimination, should I roll with it? What should I seek? I don't want money, and I don't want to cost someone their job. I don't want to make things with my new landlord more tense than they have to be. I don't want to be THAT person who takes something to court for something trivial...
I am conflicted on the what ifs.
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