LIFE IN KENMORE HALL - with H.S.I. in charge

H.S.I. has become so power and money hungry that they seem to believe that if they tell tenants that new rules are in place that must be followed, tenants will cooperate automatically - accepting social services that aren't defined in their standard, rent-stabilized leases. They also appear to believe that if they profile tenants as "resisters", "hoarders", "nuisances", or any number of other peculiar, unfounded things, tenants will cooperate out of guilt or shame - especially if H.S.I. includes threats of legal action. We're all still being stigmatized as homeless, even while H.S.I. provides us with housing.

If you want to understand more about their creepy agenda, go to their website at www.hsi-ny.org and click on the link that says  "privacy policy" at the bottom of the home page near the logos for Twitter and Facebook. Then go the the NYC CCoC (Coalition on the Continuum of Care) website at www.nychomeless.com to find out more about where H.S.I. gets its policies regarding social support services from, and how they're supposed to put them into practice. Please note while you're reading all this that tenants in this building are repeatedly referred to as homeless, although we have units with leases and rent that's being paid either through subsidies or from our own pockets. WE AREN'T HOMELESS ANY MORE - and a lot of us were not chronically homeless before we moved here, either. There's a serious contradiction in terms here. There is a direct link between how many detailed reports organizations like H.S.I. makes about their tenants' private, protected information each year, and whether they will have access to government funding. FOLLOW THE MONEY. H.S.I. pushes supportive housing because they can't get paid unless they get tenants to cooperate.