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My case of dereliction & discrimination by HUD Representative Employees.

to: johnlaratta.net/summate

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No, I am not John Laratta, nor do I want to be. He is a perjurer. Read on...

Briefly, there is a normal residential lease agreement that is bound by a U.S. gov't contract to be at least 6 months in duration (there are other obligations in the contract - e.g. habitability, maintenance, etc.) but the contract by no means provides for a "60-day" time period after the lease renews where the rent amount can be renegotiated and re-adjusted. Part C Section 15d of the contract reads as follows: "The owner must notify the PHA of any changes in the amount of the rent to owner at least sixty days before any such changes go into effect...". When I received the notice of an increase the new leasing period had already begun one month prior. The judge refused to reference the HAP contract itself; he only took into consideration the fabricated document that the mental health center's housing cooridnators derived to denigrate and discredit me. (There was also the issue I brought up about the baseboard heat being shut off and the plaintiff was finally coaxed into saying that there was a sensor that shut the boiler heat off when the outside temperature rose above 75°F. That would be implausible with fluctuating outside temperatures but it satisfied the judge. I was respectful but none of the documents I requested to substantiate his testimony were produced. It was perfunctory.) I have a copy of the court hearing transcription available here.

Note: update here (Jan 2023) I just realized that here at the very beginning of the page I did not explain exactly why the building's baseboard heat system would get shut off manually ... people would already assume that I must be stupid or I exaggerate or whatever discrediting label that can be thought of since a human's instinct is to align with, defend, sympathize with, the person or entity that has the power or control. Of course people disagree ... whatever. Anyway, right here at the top I will insert for the impatient that due to the high altitude in my region the heat from the sun would cause the upstairs units to get uncomfortably warm on nice days in the winter. The baseboard heat would be on so they would manually shut it down. (On page 7 of the transcripts is where I talked in court about the issue.) The problem was that a couple garden-level apts (like mine was) wouldn't heat up ... it didn't bother me too much personally, but ... (now continue reading since you got this far).

Also, I'd like to mention:
Sometimes after the temperature dropped overnight the management would start up the baseboard heat again but the water in the baseboard heating system would cool enough to condense and air pockets would form. There was a manifold for 4 of the units in an access panel in the bedroom closet of my apartment and they would sometimes need to come in and bleed the air out of the lines. The lower units really needed a supplimental heat system for the concrete floor when they had the boiler heat shut down. The cold spells were annoying for a couple elderly women residents (who both passed away while I lived there) which was one of the reasons I took it all the way to eviction court. My old landlord, who is a fairly wealthy real estate broker in a firm downtown, lied under oath about the heat being shut down manually. He violated the law and it's something that can happen. That's my point.

(My upstairs elderly neighbor, who passed away while I lived there, was an executive secretary for a state Supreme Court Justice as well as a victim's advocate for the local county. She used to heat her apartment with her oven when the heat was shut down. The landlord was committing a crime against her by manually shutting down the boiler. When I learned that he was violating state statute I decided to stand up to him since he was abusing the elderly but unfortunately the county judge was supportive of him.) Oh, he also brought up the new roof that he had installed, like that was a favor for his tenants ... but he could've invested in a higher quality roof material to help with the overheating problem ... but of course he didn't. He could scapegoat some tenants & make money with his investment.

I also have heard, on fairly good authority, that the HUD Coorinators' office at the mental health center was recently audited and one of the women has abruptly quit her position. Her exact reason for leaving may have not been directly related to what she did with my case; but the audit may have exposed some overall incompetency which, in regards to what they do and their clientele, is inexcusable. My case may not have been mishandled out of deliberate maliciousness, but instead the purpose may have just been to obfuscate their negligance. I've known the women involved for close to twenty years and was dismayed that they didn't stand up to the apartment management.

This site has been modified since first published. The original first page, which contains a brief summary of my case that I had written before the hearing, has been moved to a subfolder. I wrote it while under duress from the harrassment but made it a point to leave it as it is.