Advocating for the poor
Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2021 1:05 pm
Hello, I am an Advocate reaching out to help these poor people. Please let me know if you can help.
Spring Lake Mobil Home Park in Davenport Florida is being vacated starting December 1, 2021. The owner got far behind on the water bill. Tenants agreed to pay rent with water included. Some of which have been there for six years.
The problem is nobody has been communicating with the residents. They get information here and there from random people coming through. Notice to vacate dates November 15,2021.
Along with notice is a listing of shelters. They say the only service agency they have seen from Polk County is Tri County Human Services advocates. On November 10, 2021 an outreach worker advocate from Tri County showed up to visit a person needing help.
This was when the current situation was revealed. There were at that point, water notices on the Mobil homes. The tenants had no idea what was going to happen. Unfortunately, there was nothing that could be done to help them in the time frame.
All shelters listed are full of the poor and homeless and there is a waiting list at the Homeless Coalition over one thousand people. Now there are approximately fifty people with nowhere to go in that park. Within that group are twenty-three children. Sixteen of which are nine to six months. How can we allow fifty people including children to be forced out of the homes that they pay for? How can we give fifty low income people, fifteen posted days to find a place to go when there are no places available?
Some of these people are elderly not to mention poor. Some of these people are mentally handicapped and use disability advocates. Some of these people are physically handicapped. How does something like this happen so suddenly to them?
Calling all and any to help. These people need landlords that are willing to work within their means. They need banks that have low debt foreclosures to donate dwellings for tax write offs. In total there is a need for twenty-three places for these people. Money isn't the problem as much as one might think, because they pay rent. Most however, do need deposits waived or provided. Advocates? The City of Davenport? Lawyers? Grants? Empty buildings? Trailer Parks? Empty Houses? Apartments? Shelter of any kind? Let's come together in this Holiday Season and not let fifty people with twenty-three children be put out of their homes and possibly must go to jail. This isn't their fault. This can't be only their problem. They didn't do this.
Spring Lake Mobil Home Park in Davenport Florida is being vacated starting December 1, 2021. The owner got far behind on the water bill. Tenants agreed to pay rent with water included. Some of which have been there for six years.
The problem is nobody has been communicating with the residents. They get information here and there from random people coming through. Notice to vacate dates November 15,2021.
Along with notice is a listing of shelters. They say the only service agency they have seen from Polk County is Tri County Human Services advocates. On November 10, 2021 an outreach worker advocate from Tri County showed up to visit a person needing help.
This was when the current situation was revealed. There were at that point, water notices on the Mobil homes. The tenants had no idea what was going to happen. Unfortunately, there was nothing that could be done to help them in the time frame.
All shelters listed are full of the poor and homeless and there is a waiting list at the Homeless Coalition over one thousand people. Now there are approximately fifty people with nowhere to go in that park. Within that group are twenty-three children. Sixteen of which are nine to six months. How can we allow fifty people including children to be forced out of the homes that they pay for? How can we give fifty low income people, fifteen posted days to find a place to go when there are no places available?
Some of these people are elderly not to mention poor. Some of these people are mentally handicapped and use disability advocates. Some of these people are physically handicapped. How does something like this happen so suddenly to them?
Calling all and any to help. These people need landlords that are willing to work within their means. They need banks that have low debt foreclosures to donate dwellings for tax write offs. In total there is a need for twenty-three places for these people. Money isn't the problem as much as one might think, because they pay rent. Most however, do need deposits waived or provided. Advocates? The City of Davenport? Lawyers? Grants? Empty buildings? Trailer Parks? Empty Houses? Apartments? Shelter of any kind? Let's come together in this Holiday Season and not let fifty people with twenty-three children be put out of their homes and possibly must go to jail. This isn't their fault. This can't be only their problem. They didn't do this.