Oh Hoid- why stop at just whining about our socialist school system?
There are PLENTY of other LIE-beral screw ups to look at!!!!!
Consider:
Here is an article illustrating how badly public housing is being run by the over privileged Hogs of Toronto civil service. With some comments of my own in brackets):
TCHC board gobsmacked over ombudsman report
By Sue-Ann Levy. Published: February 23, 2018. Updated:
February 24, 2018 9:07 AM EST
Filed Under: Toronto SUN/ News/ Toronto & GTA
After making noises that they’d been kept in the dark about the issue, the Toronto Community Housing Corporation board woke up to the fact Friday that they have serious problems with the way their endangered tenants are treated.
On the agenda of the monthly meeting was a thorough and scathing 65-page report by new city Ombudslady Susan Opler- (a breath of fresh air compared to her predecessor, the very political and publicity conscious Fiona Crean- on what she called the “broken” and downright arbitrary internal transfer system within Canada’s largest housing authority.
TCHC is giving tenants false hope
Susan Opler, Toronto's ombudsman
For the purposes of her report, Opler focussed on “priority transfers” made for safety and security — in this case when a tenant fears for his or her life due to crime in the building — or for medical reasons.
(TCHC has a serious and ongoing problem with criminals living in their facilities- doing drug seals, threatening and robbing elderly tenants, dealing in prostitution etc. The solutions are relatively simple: separate the elderly from the young and potentially dangerous in different buildings and make greater efforts to evict trouble makers! But establishing buildings only for old folks have not been done though it was supposed to have started over a year ago! And evicting thugs apparently violates the “mission statement” of TCHC which sees no reason to throw people out just because they are dangerous criminals- rather like the LIE-beral refusal to deport convicted Muslim terrorists! It’s a madly twisted LIE-beral value system that forces frightened TCHC tenants to put up with insane crap!!)
Opler’s report was prompted by the cases of two tenants.
One was a young mother who had applied for a “priority transfer” — and was denied twice — after witnessing a violent crime outside her home, escaping to a shelter and coming back to find a loaded gun in her child’s dresser drawer.
The second complaint, she said, came from a family, also denied a transfer, after two shots were fired into their livingroom and their teenagers were assaulted enroute home from school.
Opler, who came to the city one-and-a-half years ago, minced no words that the transfer process is a mess — noting that tenants receive “vastly different amounts of help” applying for a transfer, the requirements for a transfer are “unclear” and the decisions “inconsistent and contradictory.”
“The criteria were being applied arbitrarily,” she said, emphasizing that decisions for denial of an application were often inadequate and in some cases “completely absent.”
But the most damning finding is the lengthy priority transfer waiting list comprised of 1,413 tenants, 76% of whom have been on the list for two years or more and a shocking 55% who’ve waited for a transfer for more than five years.
“We see that as a waiting list that is bloated and stagnant,” Opler said, noting, quite rightly, that the priority transfer list is no such thing.
“TCHC is giving tenants false hope,” she added.
(LIE-berals are well aware that the entire system of so called affordable housing is nothing of the sort and TCHC has now degenerated into the biggest slum lord in North America! With no way to repair the endless mess thanks to idiot spending priorities by the bloated and paralysed Toronto City Council- Ford is right to cut their numbers drastically and swiftly!)
Most board members seemed taken aback with the report and claimed they were the “last to know” about its disturbing findings, even though the report also went to city council earlier this month.
“We need to treat tenants fairly and consistently,” said board chairman Kevin Marshman.
(Of course city councillors are “the last to know” since they HIDE from such reports! They have spent so much money buying civil service union Hog support there is nothing left for practical matters like repairing infrastructure!)
Well yes, I’ve been writing about this concept for years, along with the fact that, in my view, there are TCHC staff who either simply don’t really care about the tenants they are mandated to serve, or worse, abuse their power.
Another boss exits scandal-plagued TCHC
LEVY: Same issues, different day at TCHC
LEVY: The $369M-plus social housing disgrace
LEVY: Where’s the oversight for TCHC repairs?
(Toronto municipal employees are well aware just how broekn the system is- and they are also aware of what a MASSIVE BATTLE will be required to fix or change any problem facing the city- not just with affordable housing! This is the face of bankruptcy- where NOTHING can be done!)
The issue with “priority transfers,” I believe, although serious considering safety is in question, is just the tip of the iceberg with so many other problems- mishandled or ignored- at the beleaguered housing authority.
(There would of course be less need for transfers to protect witnesses to crimes if thugs were evicted and less crime occurred and this problem can also be laid at the feet of federal LIE-berals whose hug a thug judges practice that absurd “catch and release insanity while offering up so many excuses for the vile behaviour of thugs!)
For instance, new CEO Kathy Milsom mentioned that getting a handle on crime- drug dealers one hopes- is a huge priority considering they house 4% of the city’s population but account for 25% of the violent crimes in the city.
Police cruisers at a TCHC building in North York on Oct 29, following a murder at the complex.
Opler concluded that the transfer process needs to be completely overhauled — suggesting that TCHC not continue to add to the current list and instead create a new category called “crisis” transfers, which can and should be given the utmost priority.
(Considering the crime rate in an around TCHC properties- there seems little reason to obsess over safety transfers as it does little except move people from one mess into another! It seems like we should be admitting that LIE-berals have so hamstrung our cops and so paralysed our legal system with their vile plea bargaining that turns major crime into minor offenses that crime in Toronto is pretty much out of control!)
She said Milsom has agreed to create such a list by June 30.
Milsom acknowledged the transfer process is clearly not working and told the board she’s committed to improving it along with properly defining what a crisis means for the purposes of transferring those who truly are a priority.
(Yeah, yeah- its all just paperwork and propaganda and will be FORGOTTEN before the October 2018 election anyway!)