At Downtown's Citywalk @ Akard, Finally, There's No Place Like Home For the Holidays

• My name was on the citywalk at akard list for two years. A bunch of felons had their name on the list also. When my name came up last october, I had been robbed and had not received my phone call. Finally, I paid the $100.00 move in for a 362 square foot compartment that would regularly rent for 700.00. When I went back to sign my paperwork, they ( the new two black women) stated that my unit had been changed. Now its a 300 square foot closet. I am on disability with a fixed income and have been through hell here in texas over the past three years. Sorry people, most housing, goes to blacks first, felons and drug addicts pretending they are bi-polar, and there is more of it than you can imagine being given out by Lifenet, Metrocare, and other agencies. The disabilities housing list is full of felons and jail birds, and I have been literally robbed of the shirt off my back with no mercy, on different occasions. I am divorced of ten years, and the latinos that turned me down for housing admitted they looked up my ex-husband's two hundred thousand a year income and could not provide me with services. Totally illegal. Out on the street you have hookers on SSI, gangs. Of course they clean themselves up and get whatever they can from churches too, when the day before they robbed some woman of her suitcase and diamond ring. That was a week ago with the felons and all black staff down there running things. I'm not a racist, but they are I found out and quick. It's turned in to a game with them with what they can get from the whities, including our jobs. My first meeting with citywalk @ akard's new office staff accused me of being beeligerent. The office manager came out exclaimed We don't discriminate here! I did not accuse them of anything, but they sure pulled a fast one on me taking my 100.00, and changing my unit to the closet with one 1 by 1 window. Most offenders get better digs. I had to call the police on a man that would not leave his hands off of me at the bridge and called me a snotty white bitch, because I do not put out money or sex. For four days after that, I had women and men threatening me some more because the police were called. The police are down there no less than two times a day, while the staff turn a blind eye to the penitentury we can do whatever we want and of course push and shove to be in line first, by just using fear and intimidation tactics.

• I hope they come furnished with flower pots.

• Dear Skeptical: Katrina Refugees are now Texans....whattya think is going to happen?

• This will be an excellent rsidence for one of our ex-city council persons who has problems with thier place to live and doesn't have any or much of an income. Initials "SC".Near enough to the City Hall where they can hob-knob with those that are making $36,000 per year. However, they used to get free meals and cell phone calls.

• Does anyone know how these apartments will work? Coming from New York, having Rent Controlled apartments was one of the worst ideas ever conceived. If these apartments are temporary in nature I don't have a problem with it, but if these people are going to be living in a Rent Controlled apartment for the rest of their lives then I think it is a terrible idea. To clarify, if they have a year to get a job and get their life back together before they have to move on, that's great. However, if they get to live there for next to nothing for as long as they want, then I do have a problem with it.

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