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Good for New Yorkers. Now, how about getting something done in other extreme high cost of living areas such as the Bergen Passaic county area of NJ right across the river from NYC? The typical decent, cockroach free 1 bedroom apartment starts at 1000 per month! With the constant lack of energy I have, I can't do much better than the 990 I NET each month. Rent in the dump I live? 775. This leaves me with 115 per month. The HOPWA program does NOTHING to help new cases, which by it's name, must
This resolution should be enacted nation wide. Most people with AIDS are physically unable to go back to full time work, many even part-time work. This would avoid the high State/Federal cost of homeless.
I had a rent freeze and rent subsidy for years when I was sick with AIDS, luckly, I went back to work/school with the California Dept. of REhab. I became a RN and graduated and got a nurse in treatment of Heart attacks in San Francisco and know I am buying a house and got married in IOWA with my Colombian man, moreover , we are on to bigger things like overturning DOMA and writing legislation that will allow same sex partners to get citizenship for their spouses. We are a thriving family here in
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I hope it passes in the Assembly. My SSD which is in excess of $1,000 minus rent leaves me with 330/mo for trans. non-food..
October 13, 2009 • Brooklyn