Poverty Is Not an Accident

Poverty Is Not an Accident
Nelson Mandela

Saturday, January 01, 2011

can she help?

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Ona, I don't know. The place has no heat, running water or sewage. The landlord hasn't been around in months.

Recently, a friend took out a loan and I bought a 25 ft house trailer for $2,500, paying her back a hundred a month. I am sleeping in it now. I'm scared tonight, because it's SO cold: what if the propane runs out? What if the electricity goes out? My animals and I could all die in here.

I stripped out all unnecessary cabinetry and put my own things in it. I should be done packing by the end of January. My "lease" ran out today, but that would give me 30 days, if he scraped together court fees to evict me, for my escape. I'm in a lot of pain and fatigue from so much hard work; I'm doing this all alone.

I have no car and there's no public transportation, so this morning, when it was 6f out, I had to hitch hike to the store.

My plan is to finish up the trailer, rent a truck and haul it to the Navajo reservation, 15 miles outside of Gallup, where a friend's grandmother has an old hogan and land where I can at least stay temporarily, as in a few months.

I want to go to Gallup; I like it there and I'm friends with some people there on FaceBook. My animals are non-negotiable: I will not sacrifice their lives and safety for some low income housing slum.

PLEASE do not report this property or my landlord to any authorities until I can escape! They'd condemn the place, evict me and my animals would die. And the neighbors would steal all I have left.

I was robbed last year, and stranded without my truck. I'm living here because I was desperate.

I get $700/m SSDI and just over a hundred in food stamps.

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