Covia Foundation

I had great respect for ESC until the management changed and Pamela Higgins left Presidio Gate Apartments. I worked in the garden, helped with holiday decorations and with my partner, John Westfall, worked with our food sales. For three years I loved my life here. Then the new management came. I had been told in advance that the new manager had been involved in a federal lawsuit in Glendale, California, for removal of residents from a low income housing program. Fool that I am, I showed him a photo of himself very involved in the removal of residents. This individual called my primary care physician and told her that he would get me out of this beautiful residence any way he possibly could.. Because of his actions and actions of others at ESC, including the changing of all my Recertifications, showing I committed fraud by not revealing my assets to HUD, my life was and is, a living nightmare. New management inherited this mess but continued to harass me by filing with the courts. I have fought back the best I have been able to manage. I have brain damage. New management re- wrote 2 of my Recertifications and I was relieved that maybe the distorted community attitude toward me would change. Unnecessary audits continued and agencies where I once had friends despised me. I have become more and more angry due to the distorted image still remaining against me. I could not figure out why things did not get better once the fraudulent Recertifications were changed in 2015. Then in late June this year, I found out that this manager never filed the paperwork to prove that I had done nothing wrong. He paid me back some money by lowering my rent but never reported this to HUD. We need some type of arbitration. I want to live in peace but feel he needs to complete these overpayment charges using the 4 step HUD regulations required of him. Three years have passed and here we are at Recertification again. I have trouble with Recertification every year but this year medical complications caused me to not be able to find the information I need to complete my paperwork. I strongly feel that he needs to complete this 2015 paperwork correctly and turn it into HUD before I am required to complete this 2018 Recertification. I am facing eviction now and I still can not find all the paperwork I need. He has deadlines to meet and will not accept a 10 day continuance requested by my doctor. I was unable to walk and had spinal surgery in the Spring. I lost my brother, my niece and my former partner of 15 years this year. I had shingles and was robbed at the register of a food shop last week. My depression is off any scale; The real problem however, is that like millions of others I am caught in the Opiate epidemic. I took prescribed Opiates before, during and after surgery. I was given Suboxone to get off Hydrocodone. Then I needed help to get off the Suboxone. I am still withdrawing from Suboxone and to function I have to every so often go back for a lowered dose of this medication. I fluctuate between sleeping too much and not sleeping at all. Brain damage does not mix well with lack of sleep. It has been too long living without any guality of life. ESC caused the problem affecting my lfe. My anger and frustration have put me in the victim role which I deplore. There must be someone to mediate this situation for us. I have handled this mess poorly. I have gathered so much evidence that could hurt people. Not much action or inaction can humiliate me further. Covia inherited this but the manager and I have lived it. I have done the only things with my limited ability and resources that time has allowed. Do I just walk away or fight? I have not been offered an alternative. My complete lack of faith in Covia began when I discovered that the paperwork was never filed. I have much to offer. The manager needs peace and quiet. Please Covia, live up to the standards you have set for yourself, and I will do the same.
Thank you,
Bonnie Hahn
Presidio Gate Apartments