- Jurisdiction
- Texas
I stay at large rooming house with 50 or so rooms, recently I received a File Closure Notice that indicated that due to not having responded to an interest letter I was removed from the Public Housing waiting list, apparently I was also removed from another waiting list previous to this, on top of that I did not receive a Jury Summons (first) but did get the second and probably some junk, I do have an ID locking service with a guarantee but I'm not going to bother with a PO Box, a bunch of missing and or stolen mail exactly meets my expectation of a place such as this. The best part here is our government's handling of this thus far (read below).
Informal Hearing Request E-Mail Response:
"Good Morning!
The Houston Housing Authority acknowledges receipt of your request.
Our records indicate that the Interest Letter was mailed to Citizen
Doe at Citizen Doe's house. This is the same address as verified by
you during several calls made to the HHA. Since the letter was not
returned to the HHA as undeliverable, it was perceived as received.
Since we did not receive a response by the due date, the file was
closed from the X Waiting List on X/XX/XXXX and Public Housing Waiting
List on X X, XXXX.
Since it has been determined that no clerical nor administrative errors
incurred in the sending the Interest Letter or the Closed File notice
to the correct address, the HHA is unable to reverse this action. As a
result, we are unable to re-instate you on the Waiting List for X or
Public Housing.Unfortunately, removal from the waiting list is
ineligible to be appealed nor grieved.
Please monitor our website for future announcements regarding the re-
opening of our waiting list(s).
Thank you for the opportunity to address your concern."
Also, the actual documentation I received from HHA did not include appeal information of any sort other than to say that I did not have the right to an Informal Hearing on this matter, in fact the absence of information on remedial measures is inappropriate and I would hope that it is in violation of some established rule or procedure with any sort of denial whatsoever. This HHA is one of the lowest ranked in the nation and was so mismanaged that they were actually forced to rescind vouchers, I would be surprised if the incompetents who manage to function there did not have a hand in this situation of mine.
How should I proceed to correct this issue?
Informal Hearing Request E-Mail Response:
"Good Morning!
The Houston Housing Authority acknowledges receipt of your request.
Our records indicate that the Interest Letter was mailed to Citizen
Doe at Citizen Doe's house. This is the same address as verified by
you during several calls made to the HHA. Since the letter was not
returned to the HHA as undeliverable, it was perceived as received.
Since we did not receive a response by the due date, the file was
closed from the X Waiting List on X/XX/XXXX and Public Housing Waiting
List on X X, XXXX.
Since it has been determined that no clerical nor administrative errors
incurred in the sending the Interest Letter or the Closed File notice
to the correct address, the HHA is unable to reverse this action. As a
result, we are unable to re-instate you on the Waiting List for X or
Public Housing.Unfortunately, removal from the waiting list is
ineligible to be appealed nor grieved.
Please monitor our website for future announcements regarding the re-
opening of our waiting list(s).
Thank you for the opportunity to address your concern."
Also, the actual documentation I received from HHA did not include appeal information of any sort other than to say that I did not have the right to an Informal Hearing on this matter, in fact the absence of information on remedial measures is inappropriate and I would hope that it is in violation of some established rule or procedure with any sort of denial whatsoever. This HHA is one of the lowest ranked in the nation and was so mismanaged that they were actually forced to rescind vouchers, I would be surprised if the incompetents who manage to function there did not have a hand in this situation of mine.
How should I proceed to correct this issue?