created by StickyBraces on 03/02/2025 at 16:41 UTC
26 upvotes, 4 top-level comments (showing 4)
The reason I’m posting this is because two housing stabilization services providers that are mentioned in the article are located in Minneapolis.
Does anyone here have experience working with HSS providers here?
Comment by dcade_42 at 03/02/2025 at 17:32 UTC
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I'm a tenant's attorney. I haven't read the article, so maybe some of this is repetitive.
HSS is one of the most abused programs I've ever seen (abused by landlords/service providers). Hennepin County somewhat recently lost a lot of employees and made many of the problems worse.
HOWEVER (huge emphasis here): this program used to be sooo much worse when it was GRH. It was WTF levels of landlord corruption. Just straight up stealing money from the most chronically homeless people in our state and kicking them back on the streets as quickly as possible if they dared to stand up for themselves. Fucking evil people were GRH landlords. The state cleaned things up some, so if you think it's bad now, you can't imagine how much worse it was.
Comment by aardvarkgecko at 03/02/2025 at 16:56 UTC
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Is there any Minnesota non-profit that's not unchecked grift? Why is there seemingly no oversight for anything?
Comment by Best_Foot6014 at 03/02/2025 at 17:36 UTC
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Housing Stabilization Services itself is a great waiver service. Many non-profits operate it and other Home and Community Based Services (hcbs). Many for profit HCBS orgs are also very good and effective.
The blatant fraud we’ve seen lately must not cause a blanket to be thrown over all HCBS providers.
I find the fraud unconscionable as well, esp as the leader of a non-profit HCBS provider.
Comment by sleepiestOracle at 03/02/2025 at 17:44 UTC
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What is going on with accountability? No wonder the republicans are trying to gain control. Must have balance. Too much good ole boy stuff on both sides. Need to be more non partisan.