04/09/2025
To: Morgan Mansa, Wake County Housing Department
Angela Crawford, Human Resources
Cc: Frank Lawrence, SWSC
Re: Notice of April 2025 Push
Attachments: Supporting Statistics.
Greetings:
The purpose of this letter is to inform you of recent activities by Universal. This also a commentary on homelessness and the Wake County Human Services and Human Resources recent actions and the lack of services and initiatives like open and competitive employment. Lastly, it is a personal sadness point of reflection.
Universal did submit a public comment that discusses the Wake County Housing Department and the South Wilmington Center for Men for the recent Wake County Board of Commissioners Meeting. Here are just some of the specific links of current events/acts:
https://www.wakecountyfails.com main page update
We will be moving onto all social media platforms this month and fully by next month to comment on the issues we deem needing the scrutiny of the public.
Homelessness is on the rise in North Carolina. Some estimates are of a 19% increase “in the homeless problem” in North Carolina. Some experts claim of the 19%, 30% are unsheltered. From all reports, the focus of upper administration at the Wake County Housing Department, Human Resources, and the South Wilmington Center for Men is not meeting the increased needs, but rather politics as usual. What that means is there remains the lack of open and competitive hiring, in the county overall, but a more specific example is at the center for men. The center should be fully staffed to meet the increased need. Instead, there is evidence of waste, fraud, and neglect, as cited in the videos. The center should have case managers and assistants helping to get the unsheltered off the streets and into permanent housing. However, the focus presents as just hiring your friends, as a certain president desires, but Wake County has been doing such for years, way past the presidency [Thanks Angela]. And cause the employees there to leave so a specific few can get all the overtime they want, waste and fraud.
The outer cities and towns of Wake County now suffer the problem of the homeless in their midst. It is scary. It is sad because “they” need help with applications for Medicaid, Disability, Workman’s Compensation, VA disability ratings, VA Benefits [the best inroads are for this population admittedly], Social Security Disability and Retirement, and other much need programs like subsidized housing and section 8. It is not being reported for example that SWSC is fully staffed.
Low Barrier is and was the source of deaths of many homeless persons at SWSC. This is the specific example there. While at Wake County Human Services examples include the class action suit for Medicaid, and the foster teens that now occupy the social services building, all tragedies. The videos and DA letter refer to theses issues. SWSC went against state law and public policies by allowing or causing to be allowed the sales and use of drugs on government property and communications of threats of harm and violence. The results were the death(s) of more than one person due to employee negligence in administration.
The bottom line is this, the Wake County Housing Department needs to look at the programs and services and offers and what it does not have. You do not have many workers often because of things like the hostile work environment you allow to exist at for example SWSC. And, again, there is not adherence to open and competitive hiring through human resources, just let Frank hire whom he wants, etc.. Take an innovative approach and do not follow the David Harris legacy. How long will you continue to allow the homeless to be prey? At some point in time, you have to consider the lack of retention of employees to be based in part if not entirely on the administrators you place in positions that do not have the commitment to serve the people. You need to consult and confide with the district attorney’s office.
The center should be open 24/7 given the current need in North Carolina, meaning that case managers and social workers should be available around the clock to help “get them off the streets”. Help those working have somewhere to sleep and bathe for all the shifts they may work. Have the invalid/elderly housed until permanent disabled housing becomes available. More importantly, invest in supported housing programs or open up and expand shelters [the later is not an option the public favors]. Lastly, nothing is more poignant than I was the last physically disabled person hired in the similar capacity of Guest Services Technician, wow, 2001 established that Wake County Housing and Wake County Government never embraced Diversity Equity and Inclusion in programs/employment. Workers were attacked and threatened and hurt because of criminal negligence.
Please visit ministry websites like https://www.carolinajesus.com/ and more importantly https://www.wakecountyfails.com/ and https://www.reyoadvocacy.com/ .
Reinaldo Olavarria, Sociology, BA, Political Science, MA, Elder
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