By William Tauro
I believe you ran on the platform of how affordable, American Disabilities Act (ADA) units are so vital for those with Mobility Needs and you were able to get one for you and your family including your grandmother (who with her mobility needs provided you access to get on the waitlist/lottery for the ADA unit)
This is an excerpt from http://www.kristenstrezo.com-your website, “However, Kristen found that it was near-impossible to find housing in Somerville that was both affordable and handicap-accessible for her grandmother. Kristen chose to move into affordable housing to help stabilize the diverse needs of her family— a move that changed her life for the better.”
Excerpt from another campaign quote publicly, “Caring for two small children and my elderly grandmother, I learned that finding an affordable first floor apartment or an apartment with elevator access was virtually impossible to accommodate my Grandmother’s ADA needs. My Grandmother relied on a walker. My family had to literally win an affordable housing lottery to get a unit that was affordable, large enough for a family, and ADA accessible.”
I am so sorry for the loss of your Grandmother who passed away in 2021 the one that you were able to get the ADA Affordable priority at Assembly Row due to her mobility impairments. But now why are you not residing in a non-ADA unit to give others the chance to have the mobility needs that are so limited? Instead you are taking away the opportunity for those that have so few units available and yet you consider yourself a City Council person who puts the community first. Did you notify your apartments to tell them that the ADA member of the household no longer resides there? Did you tell your constituents that you are taking away a low income ADA unit away from the people affected the most right now? Nope..you sat idly by while taking advantage of the system at the expense of a disabled family that could not afford housing otherwise. You are still milking off the situation and exploiting the system in which you have been entrusted to legislate. Do you not claim to fight for Fair Housing all while pulling a scheme on the people?
You were granted this opportunity due to ADA Needs of your Grandmother, but now that you do not have a need for ADA housing, YOU are in fact taking it away from the population that has the most limited options.
Just to let you know Councilor-at-Large Strezo, and as you are aware that I live a floor or two below you in the same building, but I am paying top dollar to be there. Is that fair as well?
QUESTION: Will you in fact go back on the non ADA waitlist and move out of your residence at Assembly Row or will you continue to take away from those with mobility issues?
You have failed to assist your community on the very issues you were put in office to assist with all while laughing all the way to your affordable ADA apartment.
She was married when she ran for city councilor and ran a false campaign claiming she was a single working mother when she hadn’t worked at all until she got her city council position and her divorce was not anywhere near final when she became councilor; she tried having those public divorce records sealed but the judge denied it. She also cheated on her husband and “forced” the marriage open. How is she allowed to stay in that subsidized ADA apartment when her grandmother is no longer alive? Someone should do some investigating on her…
I have direct info as related to this topic. It’s serious. Yes, oh helllll yes they need audited. Why do you think they just announced their own municipal voucher system here? I have rock-solid proof that lends to the motive that it’s to AVOID the potential of auditing and regulations so they can continue to violate ADA laws among many others like EPA guidelines, fed laws, constitutional privacy laws. Let’s go. I’d love for this news outlet to host a debate here or somewhere to disclose the FACTS of both sides, because they have no defense except for laws they are voting in themselves and loopholes they are creating to allow bribery and seemingly-legal violations to the laws. . Ask the residents being harmed – we have the evidence in documents and also where our bodies are bearing witness to the harms forced on us, and further, bleeding into civil rights violations through shared parties of connection to these officials / landlords, and not to mention, landlords and prop. mgt companies they are partnering with who could not be more RIFE with documented violations in every flavor, so much so the Feds have even backed private suits against some of these parties in other matters. Yet THAT is who this municipality CHOOSES to do business with? Seriously folks, stop drinking the koolaid. So, since no one else is listening and reporting the violations (a clear indication of collusion up the chain), perhaps this media outlet can be a true voice for the people and give a place….I personally would LOVE to hear their defense. I don’t see how they can have one in lieu of the facts some of us hold….as they try to silence us in every way possible. This is a twisted George Orwell / Kafka novel at best anymore for those of us who must live it. Someone needs to disclose the whole truth because those of us attempting to publish the evidence cannot write fast enough for the attempts on our civil liberties nor the perpetual offenses they continue to commit out in the open, because they think their own constituency is too stupid to notice, and that the rest will be too intimidated to speak out. Not this one.
I had to leave Somerville (when my former landlord sold his house) due to the lack of finding an apartment that could meet the needs of my husband’s physical disability- an amputation.
She and the city need to be audited