These songs are about where i live and what happens here, and some are my emotional release, like "Escape Me" and "Please Don't Mock My Pain" and yeah Karma Bus too, I use art to process trauma.
If you see these, and want to help vulnerable tenants in Toronto experience dignity in their housing. Please, find me on Facebook and reach out, or email through my channel. There are so many in need of help. My building shows up on city websites as transitional, but people have lived here 20 years after being told they could live here forever. The leases are standard leases, not terms for transition, I am going to get that fixed. I believe they are using a false designation for benefit and to flout the RTA. These people have been something the whole time I've lived here. They extorted a purchase from me to sign my first lease 15 years ago. (They tell people it's a forever home and then tell the city they are transitional.) The only reason i signed any other leases, was having to move due to leak and having to move due to N13 which was not fulfilled, they simply rented my unit to someone else. In 2021 they created a barrier to disability, making me unable to live at home. 4 years now, almost, they've been deliberately colluding to refuse to accommodate my disability. Or rather, to let me have duplicates of my keys, so that I can feel secure again. I've been effectively homeless this entire time. I can't sleep there now , I tried. They do not care. They are fully and provably aware of my disability, yet had the audacity to tell me in September that they have no record of my being disabled. This is an outright crime . And a lie, my rent goes to them from disability. They offered me compromised accommodation papers twice. For extra keys, for a known disability. They also know I do not have a physician to send a form to. They continue to insist on physician documentation despite knowing I do not have a physician. This demand is harassment, they already know I am disabled. the first 18 months, staff simply laughed at my requests for help and said "that's not happening" , 3 different staff, 3 different days. This is a form of coordinated abuse intended to silence with humiliation. And for the first three and a half years of this forced exile, I was very unwell, adverse event, autoimmune, nervous system dysregulation, and inflammation so bad that it actually numbed my body entirely, the skin anyway, my cranial nerves burned, and I had wounds that did not bleed. Felt like something was chewing inside my head, I had episodes that made me fear dementia. I lost most use of my arms and holding my head up was agony. I would have recovered faster at home, in my opinion. I tried ordering human rights paperwork , but could not even hold a pen to fill it all out, my hands were very stiff. I was so numb, that on more than one occasion I pulled hot pans from the oven with my bare hands, felt nothing, never left a mark, I have a reasonable theory.
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My heart rate could be 32 or 187, while just sitting. I also couldn't see well, extreme sensitivity to light , and sound and vibration. Couldn't ride in a vehicle without tremendous pain. And an attempt to be seen at Toronto General Hospital on the evening of July 4th 2022, ended in trauma over my mask exemption, after making it through triage, I left. I haven't gone back, I learned to heal myself. (I highly recommend it) They also forgot my disability and made me prove it again over mask exemption. That only required my saying exempt and them respecting it, but they didn't care about that either. These people are very controlling, I don't know why, I can only surmise. My history, it tells me there is likely a narcissist somewhere at the top, due to the instructions to demean with humiliation to shut down conversation. I dealt long term with a narcissist, this feels the same. For the public record, they had my disability confirmed before I moved in, for the floor I live on, and they get my monthly rent from disability. Before I signed the lease I was asked to confirm trauma, and I offered a letter. It was waved away, my mandatory worker confirmed as well, and that was settled. Trauma confirmed. They don't let just anyone live there, they claim. And I told staff the scary reason I was mask exempt while they were unlawfully throwing threats of eviction in my mailbox instead of respecting my dignity. And then I sent a doctors note when they wouldn't stop their unlawful behaviour. Now they claim, they have no record of my being disabled. This is institutional gas lighting. I only live here because i am on disability and they don't allow enough for a proper home anymore, not even a room. This should not happen to people just for being disabled.
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