Green place is an apartment complex to provide housing for low income residents, situated 5 minutes from the city hall, Toledo. The majority of people living in the neighborhood are African Americans. As I walked the neighborhood, I felt I find myself into one of those nice neighborhoods. In Bucharest we don’t have such neighborhoods close to the city hall.
There is a problem in Greenbelt. The place is infested with bedbugs, mice and cockroaches.I found this information during the class we had with community organizer Ramon Perez. : „A sample organizing in a Toledo Neighborhood”. Greenbelt gets benefits from the federal government, people are paying rent, but no one is taking care of the place. The neighborhood is part of the Housing and Urban Developments (HUD). HUD is failing to inspect units , or to hold private landlords accountable to standards for a decent and sanitary house.
After the class, Ramon took us to Greenbelt. He had to meet Sami, one of those 10 residents that will soon become leaders in this solving matter problem. They wrote to this crongress woman, but after a week and a half they did not receive any call back. ………………………………………………….(post not available anymore)
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