Hello. I am trying to get something done about the
lack of tenant consumer protection. Senator Obama's office offered to help
before Christmas. I live in corrupt Chicago and nothing has changed. When a
city wants to close an apartment, the city decides to find violations. The
same property that got ignored or had the owner paying off inspectors for the
annual inspections or not responding to tenant city calls, is found to have
city problems when the lot has plans to be turned into a store, bank, condo,
or single family home. No replacement housing is being built and anything
gets
passed off to rent. Being told to move is not helpful. Move where and into
what? A barrio wants no renter complaints yet if the city would respond,
maybe
renters would be welcome. And this being corrupt as hell Chicago means that a
judge can evict a tenant without being shown any proof from the slum landlord
and the city that the unit and building are up to code. And all tenant
landlord damage cases are not heard by city employees and held outside city
department court rooms. Who supplies the place to rent? The landlord. Who
monitors what is being rented and the codes and the ordinances? The city. Did
you know that Chicago has ordinance tort protection. For example if you get
killed or hurt in your building where the only power to correct the problem
comes from the city, you can not sue the city. I told you that I live in
corrupt Chicago right? And if the city has busted your owner, if you call the
city during the case, the city refuses to respond. The city claims that no
city responses are allowed when a case is pending. I have always said that
tenants still calling the city prove that the problems exist. Using a tenant
group and tenant attorney will not change your situation and the same
situation will be left for the next tenant. The city can change things but
some incentive action that can not be questioned is not allowing changes.
Like money does not talk.
my.barackobama.com/page/community/blog/reneemcmanus

below is an email to the unresponsive and I wonder just how effective FBI.
Years ago when reporting another apartment that magically had its city case
against it dismissed, the FBI said it was not corruption- it was negligence.
Yeah, and when the city is negligent and not collecting $$$ from fines and
sparing the owner from expenses and maybe being put of business, all happens
for free. So if changes are made, those collecting chump bribe change from
letting the violation continue, would lose their funding. The IRS will not
audit anything in Chicago because ...... because...... because..... ordinance
violations about buildings and noise complaints are not IRS matters. Folks
report bribes to the IRS. And according to the rude IRS investigator who
called me a few times, they found nothing wrong in the alderman - tenant
contact for the city when the city is not helping and somehow with a paid
employee and a budget a non city employee nor elected by the public community
group with say in barrio development. And the city land use & litigation
attorney who contacted me, Dan Asnis, was given the same information that I
sent Senator Obama's office and visited my apartment and since , has not been
in touch. The land use & litigation department is the only city power that
changes housing.

Trying to build attention to my cause. It needs some addressing. Thanks.



Chicago, Il
> July 26, 2008
>
> Dear FBI,
> Can you help? Even contacting the Chicago Report Corruption department is
not
> changing anything. Obama's office offered to help me get the city to
enforce
> codes and ordinances for my apartment in November 2007 and Alderman Vi
Daley
> and the city got into sabotage from the get go. Vi Daley's office tells
> tenants that they have no obligation to help tenants. Her office lied to
> Obama's office about the city having responded to my unit and refused to
have
> a three way phone call to support what I kept telling Obama's office was
not
> happening. Tenants have no HUD office so all we have is the city. Tenant
> groups and tenant attorneys do not change building floorplans nor get
> replacement apartments built nor stop bad landlord business practices but
the
> city can. The city can get the landlord to turn on heat, replace broken
items,
> with the use of the ordinances with or without an attorney win damages,
stop
> noise, make repairs.... and the list goes on. The city went off and first
> looked at my last address for Obama's office that I left a year ago which
> makes going after the city impossible. And the city building department
told
> me that I needed a FOIA to get my building report. I was on a first name
basis
> with the deputy building commissioner and leaving messages and emails yet
the
> city goes off and inspects a building - when I lived there had no
violations
> on record - yet after i leave 20 violations are found (maybe spotted from
the
> curb since i had no access to let the city inside)and the case in now in
> circuit court. When the city finally stopped dodging my inquiries and
> responded to my current address, no complete inspection was done. The city
> lied and lied some more and then on paper sent myself and Obama's office a
> report saying that nothing merited being brought to court. Yet my housing
> inspector report begs to differ. It proved that the city dept of
> administrative building hearings that dismissed my landlord's violation
lied.
> No permits were issued for the repairs and the report and photos show that
no
> work was done. If the city has to answer for my unit and my building, it
will
> have to answer for every shared housing situation on the street and block.
> Imagine the lawsuits going after the city with one unit example? And
> discovered that every 311 report I filed on loud landlord next door - 233
W.
> Menomonee gets closed. How? The building has violations. Anyone saying that
a
> lack of city action is negligence is not seeing the whole picture. If the
> city is paid off to lie, then the negligence is imposed on people who are
not
> getting their codes and ordinances enforced. IF you do not own, you are
> treated like dirt. Is this city policy and city corruption talking? The
police
> are jerks. They do this weird tap dance about responding to noise
complaints
> when the building has city approved illegal violations. You are told that
the
> noise just happens and you can move or turn on a fan and radio and close
your
> windows and any action by the police would be trespassing. The negligence
> that the FBI claim is really responsible is not happening for free. Why is
the
> city not collecting money from the fines? The owners supply the building
and
> get to ignore the lease and the ordinance that is mandatory for them to be
> landlords. And what about the cost of repairs, rent reimbursement, and
paying
> fines? Do you think the alderman and various city departments make no
profit
> from nothing changing? What grandfather clause exists? If my tenant
attorney
> gets to sue my landlord for my home inspection then why is the city not
> reviewing the information that they were sent? I got a copy of my 311 city
> services calls and I have the city lying. I have city proof. No shared
housing
> on this block since they are all illegal conversions has a back exit
direction
> access due to city approved garages and walls blocking those areas. Wonder
if
> the city being worried about having allowed this to happen and worried
about
> being sued is the reason the city is staying away? A slum landlord like
Tony
> Rezko became one thanks to the city. Thank you.
>
> Email to Chicago Report Corruption-
> Typed in wrong email address. here is the email. Wish you would respond and
> offer to help. Dan Asnis is with the land use & litigation department. When
> he
> and an inspector visited my unit last Friday, they did not open windows or
> were able to anwser code violations. The inspector Dan brought along looked
> at
> the work that the dept of administrative hearings lied about being fixed.
And
> would like the police to chase off loud folks loitering and not act like
> bribed chumps. Thanks. Renee, stopcitycapers