Merceda Gooding "I Refuse to give up"

Doctors say I will never get better or go into remission...I am not giving up, but I want to make others aware. A nap won't help. I am not lazy. I am on meds. I struggle with pain, mobility issues, and fatigue every day. The most frustrating part is people look at me and say "It can't be that bad; you look fine." Despite the fact that my body is experiencing excruciating pain all over. I apologize if I miss events that I would love to attend. One day you'll understand my daily struggles. This disease affects me physically, mentally, and emotionally. I need your support, not your judgment. I'm watching the ones who will take the time to read this post to the end."

With the post comes the following request:

"Please, in honor of someone who is fighting Autoimmune, Devic Disease (NMO) Sarcoidosis, 💜💜Lupus💜💜, Multiple Sclerosis 🧡🧡, Cancer💛💛, Rheumatoid Arthritis💜💜,💚💚 Gastroparesis 💚💚 💜Thyroid diseases💜, 💜 Chronic Pain💜Anxitey❤️❤️Depression❤️❤️💜💜Fibromyalgia💜💜 Polycythemia Vera💙💙 COPD💙💙Diabeties, Hiv/Aids❤❤ or any other hidden illnesses. 


Write 'done' in comments and thank you for your support and not running away from me!". True human kindness is the divine creator's way.

Housing Opportunity Commission of Montgomery County, Maryland Director is executing discriminating and segregated lawless polices against Section 8 voucher holder

On March 29, 2018, the HOC Director sent out a letter signed by Stacey Spann, distributed to all Section 8 participants in Montgomery County, MD., he and the Commissioners on the HOC Board voted and executed a policy to decrease vouchers by zip code without considering the Section 8 voucher holders and how it will affect their quality of life. Another issue, there is a lack of disabled accessible apartments in Montgomery County, MD, therefore, a disability accessibility apartment might be located within the zip code where the voucher is decreased. A disabled person under the HOC Section 8 program will get their voucher decreased and punished because they need an accessibility apartment due to the zip code discriminatory policy.  This is one of several questions that need to be answered before HOC voted on this policy and how it affects a Section 8 voucher holder quality of life. HOC refused to allow resident participation especially the introduction of this zip code discriminatory policy. This policy left many Section 8 voucher holders living in fear, intimidated and confused who reside in Montgomery County, MD. 

Zip code inequality policy was passed by the HOC Commissioners, an oppressive and unfair policy that was created to oppress Section 8 participants violating their rights to only live in certain areas in Montgomery County, Maryland. HOC is social engineering of communities will only perpetuate “protected minorities” as an underclass that relies on the government to succeed in life.

 I thought it was housing "choice" voucher. According to HUD, this is what you call "geospatial discrimination" which the term refers to the fact that affluent neighborhoods tend to be dominated by white and Asians. The government calls "protected minorities" especially blacks and other minorities who are Section 8 voucher holders are relatively absent from such communities. This policy is called "the bigotry of low expectations" being denied residence in the strongest and affluent neighborhoods. One of HUD's methods is to assist Section 8 participants to live in affluent neighborhoods and advocate society the understanding of "integrated living patterns" to overcome "historic patterns of segregation". When HOC new policy was created, it wasn't posted publically for a public comment, however, it was maliciously intended to exclude Section 8 voucher holders to speak against this new policy before the HOC Commissioners voted. 

More than half of the 4.7 million households receiving subsidies are headed by seniors or people with disabilities, according to the federal government. However, the HOC Director is causing segregation, executing a discriminatory ( by zip code) policy and bias against the vulnerable community. This policy is basically telling Section 8 voucher participants “You are no longer welcome in Montgomery County, MD” or stay on this side of the county. The wording of this policy is trying to hide discrimination and segregation; while it was brought to the Commissioners by a black man. This policy I find it insulting and it causes hardship to a Section 8 voucher holder to move to an area by zip code in Montgomery County, MD., to have their voucher to decrease while every year rent increases by the Montgomery County government up to 5% yearly. What happens if HOC decides to vote again to change the zip code to decrease the voucher in the areas where the voucher is increased, that causes instability. 

The AFFH rule sets out a framework for local governments, States, and public housing agencies (PHAs) to take meaningful actions to overcome historic patterns of segregation, promote fair housing choice, and foster inclusive communities that are free from discrimination.  The rule is designed to help programs participants better understand what they are required to do to meet their AFFH duties and enables them to assess fair housing issues in their communities and then to make informed policy decisions.

According to a 2008, survey by the Department of Housing and Urban Development, 62 percent of voucher holders nationally are designated as a minority, and 48 percent of voucher holder households nationally are female-headed households with children. This letter dated March 29, 2018, excludes the disabled, seniors and persons without children. This includes Section 8 voucher holders who can’t live in certain areas in Montgomery County, MD by zip code due to their source of income. Section 8 participants already dealing with a negative stigma from society especially landlords and management companies who sometimes refuse to rent to voucher holders because they lack awareness of their responsibilities under local laws, or they hold inaccurate stereotypes about the households who participate in public assistance programs. HOC don't advocate on the behalf of Section 8 voucher holders quality of life. The Director of HOC is insensitive and harasses vulnerable women residents by threatening to take their voucher when they voice concerns or participate regarding their quality life issues, I can speak by experience because he personally did this to me.

As Section 8 participants don’t have a right to voice their concerns to the HOC Board of Commissioners in Montgomery County, MD regarding their quality of life, the HOC Board do have a resident Commissioner. That resident Commissioner refuses to properly represent ‘all” Section 8 participants when it comes to voting for their quality of life. If so, why she didn’t enforce the Director of HOC to contact or send letters to those residents she supposes to represent concerning this new policy? Let’s not forget that politics play a part as Montgomery County MD local government nominate and vote such members on the HOC Board of Commissioners who don’t communicate with “all” residents under the HOC program (violating 24 CFR 964 and 24 CFR 245 Resident participation), they are on the HOC Board to self- serve themselves. Section 8 voucher holders are human beings, citizens in America, who vote on elections and pay taxes, too.

Many residents I had spoken to is afraid, while we try to figure out this letter written to us by the HOC Director. the problem is the Section 8 voucher participants can’t afford where they live if HOC decreases their voucher, they are forcing them to move to undesirable areas in Montgomery County, MD where there are problems with gangs, violence,  Section 8 female participants are experiencing sexual harassment and assault by predators and some zip codes approves voucher increase has the worst slumlords. This policy also creates a hardship to accumulate another security deposit and moving expenses which the Section 8 participants can’t afford while on a fixed income or receive minimum wages from their employment. How they are going to eat?  Afford medical bills or medicine? Pay for transportation? Pay their utility bills while HOC decided to decrease their voucher. According to HUD, Section 8 voucher absence constitutes prima evidence that such neighborhoods are discriminating against the protected class by denying equal access to safe communities. While  Section 8 voucher believe that Montgomery County government is discriminating against them with the desire to move Section 8 voucher participants out of Montgomery County, MD because they are not welcome here as HOC is promoting an unstable living environment.

On March 20, 2017, the MD House of Delegates passed a bill that would prevent landlords from refusing to lease a home to a person merely because they have a government voucher to help pay their rent. The bill is designed to give holders of Housing Choice Vouchers (often referred to as the Section 8 program) and other recipients of government aid more choice about where they live and help them move to more affluent areas. But this letter by the HOC Director Mr. Stacey Spann sent to the Section 8 participants on March 29, 2018, to decrease the voucher by zip code is against the House Delegates bill, it imposes a threat to Section 8 voucher holders, they will choose undesirable areas to live and this policy is discriminatory because it doesn't give them a choice to live due to unaffordability.

In 1991, Montgomery County added “source of income” as a protected class under its Human Rights Act and prohibited landlords from refusing to rent or imposing differing conditions on a prospective tenant just because they wanted to use some form of federal, state or local rent subsidy. According to ERC during 2008, they conducted both phone and in-person tests at 99 Montgomery County rental properties to determine if landlords were refusing to accept vouchers as payment for rent. In October 2008, the ERC released its investigative report, A Step Away from Homelessness, documenting a significant rate of discrimination by Montgomery County landlords against Housing Choice Voucher Holders. The ERC’s investigation and testing have led to nine actions before the Montgomery County Office of Human Rights and the courts to protect Voucher Holders’ rights. Are we returning back to history – segregation supported by HOC, HOC Commissioners and the Montgomery County government?

The letter that was sent on March 29, 2018, is a step away from homelessness and evicting vulnerable residents out of Montgomery County, MD indirectly whereas presently there isn’t enough affordable housing or disabled accessible apartments in Montgomery County, MD.  The insulting part is that HOC Director and HOC Commissioners are treating the Section 8 voucher holders inhumanely and illiterate to participate in voicing their concerns about this policy. To decrease the voucher based on zip code is discrimination. Section 8 participants must choose to have lights, (disabled and Seniors) pay medical expenses or rent is creating financial hardship and housing instability (as the rent goes up and the voucher is decreased) Section 8 participants can't afford their home. 

Now we have to wonder when the HOC Director, HOC Commissioners and Montgomery County government are going to include Section 8 voucher holders in the decision-making process before they execute such lawless policies or continue to allow this HOC Director to relentlessly exclude, discriminate and treat Section 8 voucher holders inhumanely by suppressing their voice? This supposes to be a political Democratic county. I was threatened because I bring concerns like this to the public which HOC is a public entity who violates civil rights, I have a right to voice my grievances it's a Constitutional right however in Montgomery County, MD they "bully and threaten" the vulnerable community.

References:

HUD Final Rule
https://www.huduser.gov/portal/sites/default/files/pdf/AFFH_Final_Rule.pdf

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT OFFICE OF FAIR HOUSING AND EQUAL OPPORTUNITY U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE CIVIL RIGHTS DIVISION: On Fair housing local and State https://www.justice.gov/opa/file/912366/download

State and Local Governments (Title II) Disability/ADA suppose to protect disabled persons https://www.ada.gov/ada_title_II.htm

HUD AFFH RULE BOOK: Empowering residents in Fair Housing Planning

https://www.hudexchange.info/resources/documents/AFFH-Rule-Guidebook.pdf

AFFH Fact Sheet
https://www.huduser.gov/portal/sites/default/files/pdf/AFFH-Fact-Sheet.pdf

Montgomery County, Maryland lawmakers needs to review systematic discrimination regarding the violation of the Fair Housing Act

Celebrating Black History Month 
"50 years" of the Fair Housing Act

Summary Black History Month

Celebrating "Black History" Month which is American history advancing equality for everyone especially (all) under the protected class!  Today, based on statistics inequality, discrimination and biases against blacks in America still exist especially during slavery, post-slavery,  and the civil rights era. Carter Godwin Woodson was an African-American historian and the founder of the Association for the Study of African-American Life and History. .. In February 1926 he launched the celebration of "Negro History Week", the precursor of Black History Month. Woodson chose this month because of Frederick Douglass (February 14) and Abraham Lincoln (February 12). Since 1976, every U.S. President has officially designated the month of February as Black History Month. The truth is that Black History is 365 days a year however the government acknowledges only one month to celebrate the contributions of black people who built this country by "free forced labor" without any reparations.

Summary History of the Fair Housing Act 1968-2018

CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1866 Passed by Congress over the veto of President Andrew Johnson on April 9. The Civil Rights Act of 1866 states that all persons born in the United States are citizens regardless of their race, color, or previous condition of slavery and as citizens can make and enforce contracts, sue and be sued, give evidence in court, and inherit, purchase, lease, sell, hold, and convey real estate and personal property. While this act was never enforced on the local, state or national level a second act.

The Fair Housing Act of 1968 prohibited discrimination concerning the sale, rental, and financing of housing based on race, religion, national origin, or sex. Intended as a follow-up to the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the bill was the subject of a contentious debate in the Senate but was passed quickly by the House of Representatives in the days after the assassination of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.   

Despite the Supreme Court decisions such as Shelley v. Kraemer (1948) and Jones v. Mayer Co. (1968), which outlawed the exclusion of African Americans or other minorities from certain sections of cities, race-based housing patterns were still in force by the late 1960s. Those who challenged them often met with resistance, hostility, and even violence.  

In 1988, Congress passed the Fair Housing Amendments Act, which expanded the law to prohibit discrimination in housing based on disability or family status (pregnant women or the presence of children under 18).  

According to a Housing Urban Development (HUD) press release announcing the new harassment rule on September 14, 2016, "Harassment in housing threatens a resident’s safety and privacy in her own home. In HUD’s experience enforcing the Fair Housing Act, low-income women—often racial and ethnic minorities and persons with disabilities—may be particularly vulnerable to sexual harassment in housing".  

On October 21, 2015, 24 CFR Part 100 HUD proposed a rule that would be formalized and define harassment under the Fair Housing Act. The rule would impose clear responsibility on the housing provider for any acts of harassment. In reaction to the proposed rule, many providers of housing—public, private, subsidized, affordable, or market rate. Quid Pro Quo and Hostile Environment Harassment and Liability for Discriminatory Housing Practices Under the Fair Housing Act; A Proposed Rule by the Housing and Urban Development Department on 10/21/2015. Federal Register Oct 21, 2015, https://federalregister.gov/a/2015-26587  

Quid Pro Quo:  Occurs when a person is subjected to an unwelcome request or demand because of their protected characteristic and going along with the request or demand is either explicitly or implicitly made a condition related to the person’s housing. The proposed rule states claims of quid pro quo harassment are most typically associated with sex but may be established on the basis of protected characteristics other than sex. 

Hostile environment: Is a type of harassment that would be defined to occur when, because of a protected characteristic, a person is subjected to unwelcome conduct so severe or pervasive that it interferes with or deprives the victim of her or his right to use and enjoy the housing. Whether a hostile environment has been created requires an assessment of the “totality of the circumstances,” which would include, but is not limited to, the nature of the conduct; the context in which the conduct took place; the severity, scope, frequency, duration, and location of the incident(s); and the relationship of the persons involved. Assessing the context would involve considering factors such as whether the harassment was in or around the home; whether the harassment was accomplished by use of special privilege by the perpetrator, such as gaining entry to a home through the landlord-tenant relationship; whether a threat was involved; and whether the conduct was likely to or did cause anxiety, fear, or hardship. 

States that include the Fair Housing Act as a source of income discrimination 1) Connecticut 2) District of Columbia 3) Minnesota 4) New Jersey 5) New York 6) Oregon 7) Pennsylvania 8) Vermont 9) Wisconsin 10) North Dakota 11) Massachusetts 12) California. March 20, 2017, The Maryland House of Delegates passed a bill Monday night that would prevent landlords from refusing to lease a home to a person merely because they have a government voucher to help pay their rent. Why not add a source of income to Fair Housing Act discrimination. However, Montgomery County, MD lawmakers legislate the source of income is Fair Housing Act discrimination, however, it's "unenforceable", and just looks good on paper? 

Fair Housing in Montgomery County, MD

The Fair Housing Act is supposed to be "political-free" and not oppressive because complainants are from the protected class. Everyone has a right to speak on their quality of life without threats, intimidation, and fear.  I find it disturbing that every politician and/or government want to celebrate, write a paper about the poor (but never spent 24 hours as a poor person to seek substantial references) and speak about Martin Luther King, Jr. as if they have the amount of integrity and love for "all" people. Martin Luther King, Jr., advocacy shouldn't be a platform for any politicians who want to use MLK, Jr., and have hidden biases. If the politicians were so true about equality why do the statistics demonstrate inequality by race in Montgomery County, MD? If politicians really want to come close to MLK, Jr., they need to stop the back office malicious "hate" "fabricate" or "oppression"  against the disabled community and/or any protected class; and enforce Fair Housing Act laws instead of suppressing them. During the time of the civil rights era, all the civil rights leaders were hated, discredited, and ignored by the government and they used the media to express their civil rights. Today, the government still has these biased characteristics against the protected class. However, during the civil rights era, mass demonstrations were initiated so that the protected class could be a part of mainstream society. After the death of MLK, Jr., the Fair Housing Act was passed, but he never saw the fruit of his labor, the Fair Housing Act. 

The Department of Justice ("DOJ") and the Department of Housing and Urban Development ("HUD") are jointly responsible for enforcing the federal Fair Housing Act (the "Act"), which prohibits discrimination in housing on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, familial status, and disability. The Fair Housing Act which aims to combat discrimination in housing still has its challenges. The Fair Housing Act law isn't enforced especially in local government in Montgomery County, Maryland due to the politics, protecting allies, and self-interest. 1) One type of disability discrimination prohibited by the Act is the refusal to make reasonable accommodations in rules, policies, practices, or services when such accommodations may be necessary to afford a person with a disability the equal opportunity to use and enjoy a dwelling. 2) The Act prohibits housing providers from discriminating against applicants or residents because of their disability or the disability of anyone associated with them and from treating persons with disabilities less favorably than others because of their disability. 3) The Act also prohibits housing providers from refusing residency to persons with disabilities, or placing conditions on their residency, because those persons may require reasonable accommodations. In addition, in certain circumstances, the Act requires that housing providers allow residents to make reasonable structural modifications to units and public/common areas in a dwelling when those modifications may be necessary for a person with a disability to have full enjoyment of a dwelling. The Fair Housing Act isn't executed in Montgomery County, MD.

There are some landlords in Montgomery County, Maryland who discriminate against disabled tenants and don't have disability accessibility to common areas or the office for their disabled residents so they can enjoy the property like a non-disabled person. Some landlord office personnel don't understand the Fair Housing Act and/or the HAP contract and don't comply because of ignorance or just plain "hate" for the disabled community. I read that there is a "War on the disabled", by the Democrats but to a disabled person no matter who is in the "office" or what political party (Democrat or Republican) or who is the majority, the "War on the disabled" has never ended or cease under any administration. Disability laws look good on paper but not executed, if the lawmakers refuse to enforce Fair Housing Act laws due to biases; discrimination against the disabled and/or the protected class will never end or the disabled will become equal in mainstream society.

ADA and reasonable accommodations aren't enforced in Montgomery County, Maryland. The reasonable accommodation requirements of the Fair Housing Act also do not apply to owner-occupied buildings that have four or fewer dwelling units. Any person or entity engaging in prohibited conduct - i.e., refusing to make reasonable accommodations in rules, policies, practices, or services, when such accommodations may be necessary to afford a person with a disability an equal opportunity to use and enjoy a dwelling - may be held liable unless they fall within an exception to the Fair Housing Act's coverage.

Now let's talk about security deposits this includes Section 8 residents ( Section 8 tendency agreement); the landlord puts the money in the bank it draws interest, and the landlord is supposed to return the interest to the resident. Montgomery County government, HOC (HAP contract tenancy agreement) agencies, and HOC allow the landlords to return security deposit interest, this is a violation of the HAP contract. Which means someone is getting cutbacks? Pay to play? Where is the security deposit interest going?. For example, if a tenant lives on a property for 6 years that is at least $36 that is supposed to return to the tenant. Now if it's 200 units which means the landlord keeps at least $800 dollars of security deposit interest and if all the properties in Montgomery County, Maryland doing this against the tenants there is at least $500 thousand to 1 million of security deposit interest, Who is getting that interest? How can landlords get away with this especially it's in the HAP contract (Fair Housing principles) and the landlord and tenant law, silence? " However some things must be said, and there are times when silence becomes an accomplish to injustice"...AHA

It's my belief that the Housing Opportunity Commission (HOC) despises the disabled, poor, women of color, at least that is my experience. I have a chronic illness disability and can't move so HOC employees tried to involve Housing Emergency Assistance from assisting me in my move. In addition, the Housing Emergency woman fabricated the amount which I received the full amount and assistance to move. HOC, EEOC officer and the Director of the Housing Opportunity Commission directs the staff to mistreat a disabled person. They don't have a disabled liaison to assist the disabled person. If HOC has one they are controlled by the Director to coerce, bully, and harass the disabled person under the Section 8 voucher program. The Fair Housing Act doesn't say you have to like the person but you have to enforce the laws equally because it's the law. I have proof to back up my statement and I experience it. 

Landlords who are human fabricate and contact HOC if they don't like a tenant. This means a landlord can discriminate against the protected class under the HOC program without any validation. Then the HOC Director threatened residents by telling them he would take their vouchers violating their civil rights by suppressing their voice. Without any due process, HOC is trained to listen to these slum landlords who make fabricated statements about Section 8 voucher holders because they are low income, then the HOC will send a letter to the Section 8 voucher holder to be evicted without any due process. HUD is about combating homelessness, however, HOC is about making a person homeless. What happened to the Maryland General Assembly's statement to the press in March 2017, "Landlords don't discriminate against Voucher residents!" They should have included agencies such as HOC in their statement, also. Did HOC miss that press release?

Landlord and Tenant Affairs are not trained to ensure that Section 8 voucher participants are treated equally or fairly. Why would MC lawmakers legislate such a horrific policy to oppress Section 8 voucher holders?  First of all, the HAP contract (tenancy agreement) supersedes the lease and it's under Federal law. Read the HAP contract: https://www.hud.gov/sites/documents/52641.PDF The HAP contract which includes Fair Housing Act principles, the landlords and landlord and tenant violates without any accountability by HOC. Maryland Lawmakers state they combat homelessness is questionable by the practices of HOC (Housing Opportunity Commission) when landlords fabricate against Section 8 voucher holders. So it's like slavery keeps the poor folks in line with oppressive local laws. Politics compromise the poor all the time with unethical practices.
  
The Section 8 voucher holder signs a tenancy agreement with the landlord, HOC, and family, how do landlord-tenant affairs supersede the HAP contract? The landlord and tenant affairs are not trained under the Fair Housing Act. The landlord and tenant affairs favor the landlord even if they are discriminatory, abusive, or bullies and tell the Section 8 voucher to participate to leave the property without any due process or any regard of the federal regulations. If a Section 8 voucher is low-income how can they afford to move around? Therefore, landlord and tenant affairs missed the press release "Landlords don't discriminate against Voucher residents". Therefore, the Fair Housing Act and federal protection violations keep repeating themselves against the "Have and the Have-nots" in Montgomery County, MD.

Landlords send out eviction notices if HOC is late paying their portion of the rent. This caused anxiety and fear to Section 8 voucher residents/vulnerable persons and it's a violation of the HAP contract. So what does HOC do when a landlord violates a HAP contract? Nothing! When you confront the landlords, they will try to intimidate you even if they are wrong. Some landlords will call your house to harass you especially if they know you are vulnerable such as disabled or have an invisible disability. If you tell a landlord that you have an invisible disability( anxiety, PTSD) due to trauma, for example, sexual assault, the landlord uses your disability against you.  Landlords continue to discriminate against the disabled community, and support ESA dogs under the Fair Housing Act? How can a landlord violate your constitutional rights in writing a rating? Who is advocating for the vulnerable community to stop these unfair practices? 

Landlords are intimidated by residents if they file complaints or speak about their quality of life. They fabricate like any other human so it's fair in Montgomery County, MD that landlords can discriminate against disabled residents by the source of income? HOC is supposed to be allies of the Fair Housing Act however posted on its website about the Fair Housing Act but tried to dis-encouraged Section 8 voucher residents not to file a fair housing complaint, when it is, only to violate Section 8 voucher holders' housing rights.

Fair Housing Act states: 

Coercing, threatening, intimidating, or interfering with a person's enjoyment or exercise of housing rights based on discriminatory reasons or retaliating against a person or organization that aids or encourages the exercise their fair housing rights.

The HOC, EEOC (Equal Opportunity Officer) personally withheld my accessible unit for over a month just to allow the former landlord to harass me because I filed a Fair Housing complaint.  Then he tried to intimidate from filing another fair housing complaint and he supposes to be the EEOC officer! His integrity is not "questionable" but he doesn't have any integrity. He wanted the accessible apartment to be leased out so I could stay with my previous slum lord. Several of my doctors wrote on my behalf to my previous landlord and HOC due to my disability (severe lung issues and chronic pain syndrome) that I can't stay on the 3rd floor. This was ignored by HOC and if this happens thousands of Section 8 voucher holders are experiencing these sorts of abusive behaviors. (I met residents on the internet and in public who told me that were threatened to lose their voucher if they spoke about their living conditions in Montgomery County, MD). Fair Housing Act isn't enforceable or the HAP contract in Montgomery County, MD which is signed by the landlord, residents, and HOC to abide by this tendency agreement including the Fair Housing Act, however, HOC performs systematic discrimination, and the Montgomery County, MD lawmakers must hold them accountable which there must be some transparency. But they don't, they pretend they don't know anything that is why there's a low turnout for elections nobody has the interest to vote!

Another Fair Housing Act issue, Portable vouchers- copy the link for more information:
https://www.hud.gov/program_offices/public_indian_housing/programs/hcv/portability. HOC programs are withheld from absorbing portable Section 8 voucher residents who migrate to Montgomery County, MD. Some migrate residents have been in Montgomery County, MD for over 8 years and can't participate in any self-sufficiency programs. However, my immigrant friends get their vouchers sometimes less than 6 months and can participate in HOC programs for self-sufficiency. So why those who have migrated to another State and have portable Section 8 vouchers moved to Montgomery County, MD is treated unfairly or un-welcomed without HOC absorbing their voucher? These portable voucher residents can not participate in any self-sufficiency programs to improve their quality of life under HOC. Another issue is why Section 8 voucher holders can't change caseworkers especially if the caseworker doesn't communicate well with the Section 8 voucher holder. They don't like to migrate citizens but love immigrants in Montgomery County, MD?

How can landlord discriminate against disabled persons especially when they expose their invisible disability and use it against the vulnerable resident to become homeless? How can HOC put on their website if "landlords have issues with Section 8 voucher residents" contact them and not be allies to the Section 8 voucher residents they suppose to serve? If it wasn't for Section 8 vouchers they wouldn't be in business or have their positions. How can they ignore that some landlords are "dictators" "abusers" "bullies" and don't specialize or train in Fair Housing Act principles?

The Fair Housing Act is a great law but unenforceable in Montgomery County, MD and the intimidation is great to make a Section 8 voucher, disabled or vulnerable persons to be forced to move by bullying because they exercise their fair housing rights this is what is truly happening in Montgomery County, MD. As we all know Martin L. King, Jr., is in the hierarchy of civil rights and has been called a communist, etc., and the government was his main enemy. Martin Luther King, Jr. wasn't a politician and couldn't compromise his integrity to oppress certain classes of people the government thinks less of.  If you are a person who advocates for what is right and lawfully, expect to get bullied don't be surprised and expect the government, lawmakers, agencies etc., to be your ally.  Just know you are representing yourself as the voiceless in your community and in the end, you will be appreciated for your advocacy efforts. 

"You are ethical uncompromising, principled, full of integrity, and truthful no matter how great the opposition" is against you. 

"There are people who groom themselves too aggressively victimized and convert abuse to intimidate people like the vulnerable community only to distort or misrepresent to gain favor". 

 "Laws in America require employers, schools, landlords, as well as governments to make services accessible to persons with disabilities through the provision of reasonable accommodations or modifications'.



References: 

The Civil War Era and Reconstruction: An Encyclopedia of Social, Political, Cultural and Economic Historyhttps://books.google.com/books?isbn=1317457919Mary Ellen Snodgrass , 2015

Disabled tenants housing rights   https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/disabled-renters-housing-rights-30121.html   

Fair Housing Rights of Tenants with Mental Health Disabilities for Landlords   http://www.disabilityrightsca.org/pubs/CM1801.html  
HUD Announces Rule Regarding Harassment in Housing & Protections For Domestic Violence Victims   http://www.fairhousingnc.org/2016/hud-announces-protections-against-sexual-and-other-harassment-in-housing/   
Quid Pro Quo and Hostile Environment Harassment and Liability for Discriminatory Housing Practices Under the Fair Housing Act   https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2016/09/14/2016-21868/quid-pro-quo-and-hostile-environment-harassment-and-liability-for-discriminatory-housing-practices   
More women join suit against Baltimore public housing over alleged sexual harassment   http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-city/bs-md-ci-gilmor-complaint-20151020-story.html 
 Kansas Landlord Charged with Sexually Harassing Female Tenants   
https://www.fairhousingcoach.com/article/kansas-landlord-charged-sexually-harassing-female-tenants  
 A guide to disability to Disability Rights Laws   https://www.ada.gov/cguide.htm