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Residents Protest Apartment Living Conditions Contractors Walk Off Job
WCMH Channel 4 Columbus ^ | 18 August 2005 | Staff

Posted on 08/18/2005 6:48:34 PM PDT by buccaneer81

Residents Protest Apartment Living Conditions Contractors Walk Off Job

POSTED: 5:26 pm EDT August 18, 2005 UPDATED: 7:09 pm EDT August 18, 2005

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Residents of a local apartment complex continued to protest what they say are unsafe and unhealthy conditions, NBC 4's Mike Bowersock reported.

Contractors installing heating systems at Woodland Meadows apartments said they walked off the job Thursday morning after being told they won't be paid.

They've been working at the complex for about a month and have yet to be paid.

Residents have been protesting the living conditions all week.

"This is America," said resident Hawd Elmi. "We are not slaves. We are human beings. We pay rent. Although the governments pays us, we pay rent."

Taxpayers spend more than $5.7 million a year of federal money to keep the HUD complex operational, Bowersock reported.

The county and state also contributes money to pay for the housing.

"There's been shootings here. (There's been) prostitution here," said resident Kevin Jenkins.

"It can go all the way back to five years ago, or before then, when they called it 'Uzi Alley.' I think it's going back to that," said resident Betty Bannister.

Complex management has scheduled a meeting with residents for Monday.

Watch NBC 4 and refresh nbc4i.com for additional information.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: bums; foreigners; section8; welfare
"This is America," said resident Hawd Elmi. "We are not slaves. We are human beings. We pay rent. Although the governments pays us, we pay rent."

I love it. Makes me feel all warm and fuzzy when I look at my paystub and see $ 600 taken out in taxes.

1 posted on 08/18/2005 6:48:44 PM PDT by buccaneer81
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To: buccaneer81

Man, what a quote.


2 posted on 08/18/2005 6:49:43 PM PDT by Rodney King (No, we can't all just get along.)
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To: buccaneer81

Welcome to the world that Hillary would have for us...


3 posted on 08/18/2005 6:49:54 PM PDT by WestVirginiaRebel (Carnac: A siren, a baby and a liberal. Answer: Name three things that whine.)
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To: buccaneer81

yeah that is NOT a good area either....


4 posted on 08/18/2005 6:50:53 PM PDT by MikefromOhio
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To: buccaneer81
They've been working at the complex for about a month and have yet to be paid.

I don't think I would have worked that long.

5 posted on 08/18/2005 6:51:55 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (Remember and pray for Sgt. Matt Maupin - MIA/POW- Iraq since 04/09/04)
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To: buccaneer81

You get what you pay for.


6 posted on 08/18/2005 6:52:25 PM PDT by Bird Jenkins
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To: buccaneer81

resident Hawd Elmi. "We are not slaves. We are human beings. We pay rent. Although the governments pays us, we pay rent."

This has to be the quote of the month. LOL !!


7 posted on 08/18/2005 6:54:03 PM PDT by Peace will be here soon
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To: Bird Jenkins
You get what you pay for.

Some people get what YOU pay for.

8 posted on 08/18/2005 6:54:17 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (Remember and pray for Sgt. Matt Maupin - MIA/POW- Iraq since 04/09/04)
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To: MikeinIraq
yeah that is NOT a good area either....

The former Greenbriar East. Uzi Alley in the late '80s to early '90s.

9 posted on 08/18/2005 6:54:52 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (Rick Nash will score 50 goals this season ( if there is a season)
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To: Graybeard58

Touche, Graybeard. Touche.


10 posted on 08/18/2005 6:55:00 PM PDT by Bird Jenkins
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To: buccaneer81

I used to work in Whitehall....

:)


11 posted on 08/18/2005 6:58:47 PM PDT by MikefromOhio
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To: MikeinIraq
I used to work in Whitehall....

Worst school district in Central Ohio.

But, cheapest motels in Central Ohio...LOL!

12 posted on 08/18/2005 7:01:38 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (Rick Nash will score 50 goals this season ( if there is a season)
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To: buccaneer81

Hawd Elmi? are we really funding the Hawd Elmis of Ohio
to pay rent to low life tenement owners? I'll bet Hawds
green card is expired. This country is insane letting
all these nut jobs from Timbuktu in here then paying their rent!


13 posted on 08/18/2005 7:01:53 PM PDT by claptrap (optional tagline under re-consideration)
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To: Peace will be here soon
"We are not slaves. We are human beings. We pay rent. Although the governments pays us, we pay rent."

What kind of name is "Hawd Elmi?"

14 posted on 08/18/2005 7:03:30 PM PDT by bill1952 ("All that we do is done with an eye towards something else.")
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To: Peace will be here soon

"resident Hawd Elmi. "We are not slaves. We are human beings. We pay rent. Although the governments pays us, we pay rent."

This has to be the quote of the month. LOL !!"

Boy, do I ever agree that should be the quote of the month.


15 posted on 08/18/2005 7:05:39 PM PDT by freekitty
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To: bill1952
What kind of name is "Hawd Elmi?"

The kind that would keep me from boarding an aircraft.

16 posted on 08/18/2005 7:05:40 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (Rick Nash will score 50 goals this season ( if there is a season)
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To: bill1952
What kind of name is "Hawd Elmi?"

The kind that would keep me from boarding an aircraft.

17 posted on 08/18/2005 7:06:17 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (Rick Nash will score 50 goals this season ( if there is a season)
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To: bill1952

"What kind of name is "Hawd Elmi?"


For some reason I think its German.....


18 posted on 08/18/2005 7:38:22 PM PDT by Peace will be here soon
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