RIGHT TO HOUSING
Topic Introducer: Ramona Turnbull, Local Activist
“Everyday women and men, good, honest and productive citizens like myself are forced to return to the shelter system and in some cases the streets where the stress and challenges are beyond what many of you are able to imagine.”
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“I am on disability and after rent and my phone bill I do not have much. Once the electric goes off I have no gas and no phone. The first time they turned them off my sister-in-law was sleeping and she uses an oxygen tank.”
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“We have been at the shelter in Cleveland for a month. I had to stay at the men’s shelter and my wife at the women’s shelter. During the intake I asked if we could stick together because we are legally married and she had no income without me. I was asked if we had any children and I told them that we do and that they are staying with family.”
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