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 Tri-Court Apartments:    Shining the Light,   Where it Needs to be Shined !
720 N. 143rd St, Seattle WA  
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TRICOURT RESIDENTS Are 'SICK and TIRED' Of Being 'SICK and TIRED'


This site is an effort to DRAW the ATTENTION of our NEIGHBORHOOD and COMMUNITY to the VERY SERIOUS and ONGOING issues that are going un-checked at Tricourt Apartments in the Bitter Lake Neighborhood. Issues include;


Preventable
Deaths
Unchecked Criminals & Criminal Activity
Drug Usage & Dealing
Violence & Threats Towards Tenants
Gang Activity
Ongoing Prostitution
Ongoing Smoking
in a SMOKE-FREE Community
Ongoing Marijuana Usage & Dealing
Severe Alcoholism & Public Drunkenness
Pill Trafficking
Acohol & Drug Fueld Partying
Extreme Music & Noise After Hours
Property Destruction
Spraying Common Areas to Cover Smoking & Drugs
Allowing Vagrants to Live on the Premises
Tenants Urinating & Defecating on Premises
Tenants with Severe Mental Health Issues who →
→ are a danger to themselves & others
Tenants Feeding Wild Animals & RATs
Tenants/Guests Stealing Property



Our intention is to bring visibility to these issues with the hope that these issues get the attention they deserve and are resolved internally or externally so as to provide a SAFE and HEALTHY neighborhood for everyone.



SEE >>
Bad Tenants
Problems
 Seattle Housing Authority 
for DETAILS




TRICOURT NEEDS HELP !


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If you or your organization have any input or ideas or other contributions towards resolving some of Tricourt's PROBLEMS we would welcome them. The current problems seem to be beyond the scope of the current administration's ability to manage.




  TRICOURT NEEDS     →    




About Tricourt Apartments

TRI-COURT Apartments or "The Zoo" as SHA (Seattle Housing Authority) Staff internally refer to the property and its residents, is situated directly north of Bitter Lake Reservoir and Bitter Lake Reservoir Park in North Seattle.

  Physical Address: 720 N. 143rd St, Seattle, WA 98133

TRI-COURT Properties ...
  • Houses 87 low income and disabled residents
  • contains 4 buildings. 3 buildings #718, #722, #724 house residents while the 4rth #720 provides office space for SHA management and staff.
    See MAP of premises.
  • Building #720 also has a community room which provides a common area for residents, a meeting hall, and additional office space. The additional office space is used by Tricourt Resident Council members and Social Agencies Service Agencies like King County Aging & Disability Services and Full Life Care Home Services who are available on a weekly basis
  • TRI-COURT had the distinction of being the 1rst SMOKE-FREE public housing property in Seattle in 2003. 2012 SHA received  $150,000  dollars from Washington State Department of Health for designating ALL their properties SMOKE-FREE


[UPDATED- Aug 2015]
PROBLEMS
HISTORY
The Long and Short of it is ... that a community that once housed predominantly elderly tenants and was a fairly calm and tranquil environment has now DE-EVOLVED into ...







A place where 3 WOMEN HAVE DIED





Tenants Outraged Over FAILED Eviction after Womans Death
  • Tenants are besides themselves in understanding how a Tenant with a criminal record a mile long who supplied Heroin to a woman and then DUMPED HER BODY in front of his apartment WHERE SHE DIED was EXONERATED from being EVICTED by the King County Judicial System.

    REFERENCE:  King County Superior Court Case Number: 15-2-03870-2 












A place where a Tenant recently committed SUICIDE
  • A Long-Time Resident Liked by many Residents took his life November 2017
  • Died on the same floor WOMANS BODY was DUMPED several years earlier
  • WHO CARES! Certainly NOT Seattle Housing Authority !




Featured on  KIRO TV Channel 7  for Prolific Prosititution

  • a place featured on KIRO7 TV NEWS (11-8-13) because MULTIPLE PROSTITUTES staying with a TENANT were SERVICING CLIENTS outside by Apartment TRASH RECEPTACLES in broad daylight







A Launching Pad for  Drug Dealers  &  Pimps 
  • a place where DEALERS & PIMPS can PRACTICE their TRADE with IMPUNITY










Safe Haven for Extremely Hard-Core Alcoholics & Drug Addicts
& their Alcoholic/Drug Addict Guests
  • Tricourt has become a DRUG DEN for Hard-Core ALCOHOLICS & Practicing DRUG ADDICTS with extensive criminal records who destroy property, terrorize tenants, party unabated without fear of any repercussions from Seattle Housing Authority (SHA) or the King County Legal System. It appears that there is NO VETTING process for tenants anymore. These BAD TENANTS have left a trail of destruction in their wake costing countless dollars and man-hours babysitting these hooligans. These unruly tenants bring other Vagrants, Drug Addicts, Homeless, and Alcoholics into their apartments to party with.

















Call  911 


  • a place where Seattle Housing Authority (SHA) DUMPS the MOST SEVERE Criminals, Drug Addicts, Alcoholics, Pimps, Developmentally Disabled, and Mentally Ill and then tells tenants to  CALL 911  if there are any problems.

    Then SHA ABSOLVES ITSELF of any responsibility whatsoever!

     What is wrong with this picture? 











Tenant  Safety ? 
  • WOMEN at Tricourt have openly expressed FEAR for their  PERSONAL SAFETY 
  • LONG-TIME Tenants have expressed CONCERN that things ARE GOING DOWN-HILL rapidly






A  Smokers  Paradise on a SMOKE-FREE Property
  • Tricourt was DECLARED the  1rst SMOKE-FREE Community in Seattle Public Housing in 2003  which subsequently received  $150,000  from the  Washington State Dept of Health  for going totally SMOKE-FREE in 2012.

  • A place where more than 1/3 of the TENANTS are SMOKERS in some buildings

  • a place where 2 WOMEN HAVE DIED from RESPIRATORY ISSUES in the last several years.

  • A place where there has been an  INCREASE in  TENANTS SUFFERING from ASTHMA and RESPIRATORY ILLNESSES












Postal Service FAIL and Mail Theft
  • a place where The Postal Service Regularly delivers MAIL to THE WRONG ADDRESSES which include resident CHECKS, BILLS, and CREDIT CARD mail.

  • a place where GUESTS of DRUG-USING TENANTS have been seen going through lobby trash bins looking at discarded mail











Disgruntled SHA Employees, Jobs NOT Getting DONE!,
Misplaced Liabilities!
  • a place where some SHA Employees are down-right hostile towards tenants.
    • Are they so overworked they have become belligerent?
    • or does SHA turn a blind eye to employees with anti-social disorders and then put them on the front lines?
  • a place where Maintenance (Repair) Work Orders sometimes get filled and sometimes dont? and then hold tenants legally responsible!
  • a place where Tenants routinely clean up their buildings and the premises because SHA employees dont!













Domestic  Violence  &  Violence 
  • a place where Hard Core Drug Addicts, Hard Core Alcoholics, Severely Mentally Ill and Severely Developmentally Disabled Tenants & their Partners regulary  Beat-Up on each other at all hours of the day and night  much to the dismay of everyone else around them.










What is Going On Outside Tricourt Apts ?



- Prosititutes bring their Johns to Shoot-Up in Parking Lot from neighboring TRESSA APTs.

- Prosititutes are invited on premises by BAD TENANTS.

- Tenants and/or Guests Routinely BLOCK ACCESS to parking lot or GARBAGE PickUP ACCESS

- Disability Access. Front of Buildings and In Back Parking Lot.

- Trash Bins. Routinely Overflow because people BLOCK ACCESS for GARBAGE PickUPs.

  - Thriving RAT community since GARBAGE IS LAYING ON THE GROUND because dumpsters are OVERFLOWING.
  - RATS also attracted by tenants dumping large quantities of food on ground for their own amusement.


- Bad Neighbor "Northline Apts" No-Mans-Land Dumpsite. See Google Satellite view.

- Homeless, Vagrants, and Drug Users are kept as "PETS" by other Drug Using tenants.

- Bad Neighbor "Cedar Pointe Apts" who blow garbage from their parking lot onto Tricourt property "Regularly."

- Smoking area for Smokers

- Tenants Regularly feed animals by dumping large quantities of food on the grounds and attracting RATS in the process.

  - New Children Play Area with Jungle Gym.
  - Only 5 Sex Offenders within several hundred ft of playground [ref: CrimeReports.com]

What is Going On Inside Tricourt Apts ?

Law and Disorder


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See BAD TENANTS to see what law abiding tenants have to deal with on a regular basis.
    DEATHS    
WOMENS LIVES DONT MATTER !


3 WOMEN HAVE DIED within the last several years. 2 mysteriously from RESPIRATORY ISSUES and the other from a HEROIN OVERDOSE directly across from a known HEROIN DEALER/ TENANTs apartment.

• Susan Mary Freeman DIED of ASTHMA on February 19, 2013 in her apartment in Building #718 Apartment #203. Previous to living at TRICOURT Apartments she NEVER HAD ASTHMA, but Ms. Freeman was surrounded by chronic smokers in her building who smoked continuously. Ms. Freeman was a healthy invidual who succumbed very suddenly which took most tenants who knew her by surprise.

• Kate Rogers DIED of RESPIRATORY ISSUES in 2014. Ms. Rogers lived in Building #722 Apartment #329. She had COPD and lived 2 Floors above the one of the most prolific CHRONIC MARIJUANA SMOKER / Other DRUGS? tenant. Having a shared ventilation system that all tenants have in all the buildings was her HEALTH PUSHED OVER THE EDGE by ANOTHER CHRONIC SMOKER?

• An UNKNOW WOMAN DIED of a HEROIN OVERDOSE in the hallway across from a KNOWN HEROIN DEALER's apartment in Building #724 Apartment #231 on November 14, 2014 between the hours of 10:00-11:00 pm. SHA tried to have the TENANT in Apartment #231 EVICTED but the  KING COUNTY LEGAL SYSTEM EXONERATED the HEROIN DEALER. TENANT is a known user of STREET PROSTITUTES, has done PRISON TIME, and has a DOCUMENTED history of VIOLENCE TOWARDS WOMEN.

REFERENCE:  King County Superior Court Case Number: 15-2-03870-2 
PROSTITUTION
KIRO TV NEWS CHANNEL 7 ran several news broadcasts about  PROSTITUTION at TRICOURT Apartments  on November 8, 2013 and November 13, 2013.





 AIRED: 11-8-2013 at 11:00pm  

VIDEO:   RESIDENTS SAY THEIR PUBLIC HOUSING COMPLEX IS A HOME FOR PROSITITUTION  

WATCH and LISTEN to KIRO TV (Channel 7) news reporter David Hamm interview Tri-Court Residents about the ONGOING and PERVASIVE issue of PROSTITUTES and PROSTITUTION at Tri-Court Apartments.



 AIRED: 11-13-2013 at 5:00-7:00pm and 11:00pm  

KIRO TV FOLLOW-UP STORIES
• 5-7pm (long version) - Tricourt Residents Update KIRO TV
• 11pm (short version) - Tricourt Residents Update KIRO TV


KIRO TV ARTICLE:
 PUBLIC HOUSING RESIDENTS SAY THEIR COMPLAINTS ABOUT PROSTITUTION ARE BEING IGNORED 

KIRO TV (Channel 7) news reporter David Hamm writes about the ONGOING and PERVASIVE issue of PROSTITUTES and PROSTITUTION at Tri-Court Apartments. Residents talk about their attempts to get Seattle Housing to take action.






KIRO 7 TV reporter David tries to get a statement from the resident in building #722, Apartment #129 who was hosting multiple prostitutes who were seen servicing clients by trash receptacles on the property.


[UPDATE:] Tenant was relocated to another SHA Property as of December 2016
    SUICIDE    

On  November 28, 2017 the resident in Building #724 Unit #235  was discovered deceased by what appeared to be his own hand.

The tenant was an unassuming man liked by all who knew him. His DEATH has shocked residents living at Tricourt.

He will be remembered for his love of computers and his generosity to the community. He regularly fixed the community room computers and purchased parts out of his own savings.

Given the Deplorable Living Conditions at Tricourt Apartments and the Lack of Involvement by SHA Management its not too hard to understand such circumstances occurring.
SEATTLE HOUSING AUTHORITY
SMOKE-FREE ?


TRICOURT Properties was designated the 1rst SMOKE-FREE public housing property in the City of Seattle in 2003. In 2012 SHA declared all their public housing properties SMOKE-FREE and received  $150,000  dollars from the Washington State Department of Health.

Some 10+ years later and 2 subsequent TENANT DEATHS attributed to RESPIRATORY ISSUES it is clear that TRICOURT is anything BUT SMOKE-FREE!

[See BAD TENANTS for more information]


  VENTILATION  

The unfortunate reality is that the VENTILATION SYSTEM at TRICOURT Apartments is extremely POROUS.

Some TENANTS are exposed to CHRONIC CIGARETTE, MARIJUANA, and OTHER DRUG SMOKE on a DAILY BASIS for YEARS ON END.

TRICOURT has become a SAFE-HAVEN for some of the hardest CHRONIC SMOKERS around.

[See BAD TENANTS for further DETAILS]

CDC DATA: Cigarettes and Death

Cigarette smoking causes about 1 of every 5 deaths in the USA each year.Cigarette smoking is estimated to cause the following:

• More than 480,000 deaths annually (including deaths from 2nd hand smoke)

• 278,544 deaths annually among men (including deaths from 2nd hand smoke)

• 201,773 deaths annually among women (including deaths from 2nd hand smoke)
 WHAT DOES CHRONIC SMOKING LOOK LIKE ? 
TRICOURT TENANT SMOKING on GOOGLE MAPS! This tenant is nice enough to smoke outdoors. Just imagine what TENANTS ARE SUBJECTED TO when tenants like this SMOKE INDOORS DAILY for YEARS ON END especially those who have relocated to TRICOURT because of RESPIRATORY or SIGNIFICANT HEALTH ISSUES thinking they have come to a SAFE PLACE. Think Again!



 FORCED VENTILATION 


OLD Bathroom FanNEW Bathroom Fan


Tenants have 2 Ventilating Units in their apartments;

  • their Kitchen Ventilation Fan above their stove and
  • their Bathroom Fan in their bathrooms.

The old bathroom fans where connected to a Timer Switch that exhausted the bathroom daily for an hour or so. Tenants where able to turn their bathroom ventilation fans Off and On as required. SHA has since installed NEW FANS that no longer can be turned Off or On. The New Fans are automated and are activated by a movement sensor that activates when a person enters their bathroom.

 "PROPERTY over PEOPLE" 


Tenants are routinely subjected to  Cigarette, Marijuana,  and other types of smoke like  Heroin and Crystal Meth  coming through their VENTILATION SYSTEM from tenants who are chronic smokers and chronic drug users and dont have any regard for SHA's rules.

Because of SHA's concerns over MOLD Abatement they have chosen property over the welfare of people.

SHA Un-Management
HOW BAD IS SHA MANAGEMENT ?
SeaSol (Seattle Solidarity Network), a grass-roots organization helping Renters in Seattle standup to  unscrupulous Landlords  released a graph of how they picture Seattle Housing Authority (SHA).

We think  "The Whole System "  from the ground up needs to be looked at not just building managers.




BAD MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES


DON'T SEE, NOT THERE !
SHA's favorite strategy - AVOIDANCE!

I dont see anything! Then its NOT a PROBLEM!

The unfortunate "REALITY" is that TENANT's Do NOT have That LUXURY!


HOT POTATO!
Another one of SHA's favorite strategies.

It's NOT my PROBLEM! It's someone elses!

Maybe that's why things NEVER get DONE!


MUSICAL CHAIRS
When the HEAT goes UP, then its time to MOVE!

SHA shuffles STAFF around constantly and PROBLEM TENANTS to OTHER PROPERTIES without ever SOLVING PROBLEMS.


BULLYING!
Plain old-fashioned BULLYING!

DO IT! .... OR ELSE!


BUNKERING
It's NOT part of my JOB DESCRIPTION!

I'm TOO BUSY!

INSERT   [ excuse ]   HERE!


HOW TO BEST SUM UP DAY-TO-DAY OPERATIONS at SEATTLE HOUSING AUTHORITY


LOTS OF BS!

► More BS to go around than one can shake a stick at.

► Seems like everyones passing-the-buck at Seattle Housing Authority.

► There a lot of people with Titles but very little Authority.

► There is lots of Lip Service but very little action by Seattle Housing Authority Staff.

► Everyone's covering their own ASS and that's about it!


► Tri-Court TENANTS DEMAND CHANGE ◄
Seattle Police Department In-House
Seattle Housing Authority (SHA) employs 3 Seattle Police Department (SPD) officers.

► 1 Day Shift Officer - Works N. End Exclusively

► 1 Day Shift Officer - Works S. End Exclusively

► 1 Night Shift Officer - Works ALL of Seattle
Despite having 3 Full-Time Police Officers Criminals  [DRUG DEALERS, PIMPS, PROSTITUTES, DRUG USERS & ALL their FRIENDS & ASSOCIATES]  seem to enjoy the SAFETY and COMFORT of doing what they enjoy doing without FEAR of any INTERVENTION from AUTHORITIES.

SHA SPENDS $100,000's of DOLLAR's on POLICE MANPOWER

HOW IS IT that CRIMINALS can get away with MURDER! and DO their BUSINESS with RELATIVE IMPUNITY?
Has SPD gone SOFT?

AND / OR

... Has SPD's BALLs been cut OFF by

► SOFT City, County, and State Prosecutors who give more rights to CRIMINALS than LAW ABIDING CITIZENS

... Been Cock Blocked by

► SHA POLICIES and PROCEDURES

... Been INFECTED by

► SHA's DEADBEAT DISEASE!
BAD TENANTS
BAD TENANTS KEY


  - Responsible or Implicated in Death of Another Individual on the Property

  - Criminal Record

  - Drug Usage and/or Dealing

  - Violence or Threats against other Tenants

  - Domestic Violence

  - Gang Activity

  - Prosititution, Pimping, or use of Prostitutes

  - Cigarette Smoking in Apartment or Common Areas

  - Marijuana Usage and/or Dealing

  - Public Drunkenness and Alcoholism

  - Pill Trafficking

  - Partying with guests after hours

  - Playing Stereo Music or TV very LOUD or Constant Screaming and Yelling

  - Property Destruction

  - Spraying Apartment or Common Areas to cover Smoking and/or Drug Usage

  - Allowing Homeless, Vagrants, or other Drug Users to live in Apartment

  - Urinating and/or Defecating as Retaliation OR using Community Room Bathrooms as own bathroom

  - Tenant Dumping Food for Animals and Feeding RATS in the process

  - Theft

  - Suspicious Activity ► people coming & going from Apt at all Hrs, Strange Smells/Fumes coming from Apt

  - Watching PORN on Community Room computers

  - SEX in common areas ►Laundry Room, Stairwells, Other




BUILDING #722 Apartments
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1=Mild  2=Moderate  3=Severe  4=Chronic 



 - Deadly
 - Very Bad
 - Bad
 - Problematic
 - OK




#321 - ---------------

 
- Chronic Inebriate, Drug User, Smoker, Parties with Other Alcholics and Drug Users

 
-- -  Extensive criminal history for public drunkenness, Domestic Violence, Harassment 

#325 - ---------------

 
- Chronic Inebriate, Drug User, Smoker, Parties with Other Alcholics and Drug Users

 
-- -  Extensive criminal history for public drunkenness 

#327 - --

#220 - ---------- Tenant housed LATIN GANG MEMBERS

 
- Chronic Inebriate, Chronic Drug User, Smoker, Parties with Other Alcholics and Drug Users

#222 - -- -  Tenant went on rampage destroying almost all lighting in Building #722 

#225 - -  Tenant seen Prostituting themselves on Aurora Ave N   In-Call / Out-Call Activity ???

#226 - -------

#228 - --------

 
- Chronic Drug User, Chronic Smoker, Parties with other Drug Users & Smokers at all Hours of the Day & Night

#229 - -----

#122 - ---------------

 
------- - Tenant Died [2016] - Sibling Inherited LEASE

 
Chronic Drug User, Smoker, Parties with other Drug Users. Has a specialty for DESTROYING SHA property when mad

#123 - - People seem coming and going at night

#124 - ----------

 
Chronic Inebriate,Chronic Drug User, Chronic Smoker, Parties with other Alcoholics and Drug Users

#126 - ----- - Chronic Inebriate. Tenant openly threatens other tenants

#127 - --------------

 
--- - Steals Lights from hallways & stairwells   Housing "Illegal Aliens" in APT 

 
-- -  Extensive criminal history for THEFT 3 Times & Previous Eviction Action Taken 

 
- Chronic Drug User, Chronic Smoker, Parties with other Alcoholics and Drug Users at all Hours of the Day & Night

#128 - -- - tenant damaging computers in community room. Strange Fumes from APT, neighbors complaining

#129 - ---------------

 
Tenant featured on KIRO 7 TV for harboring prostitutes that were turning tricks on premises

 
- TENANT was RELOCATED by SHA - December 2016 - to another SHA Property

Building #722 (North Side Tenants) ---


BUILDING #724 Apartments
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Laundry Room133135137
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1=Mild  2=Moderate  3=Severe  4=Chronic 



 - Deadly
 - Very Bad
 - Bad
 - Problematic
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#337 - ---------

#231 - ------ -----

 
-  [Extensive Criminal History], Prison for residential burglary, assault, domestic violence, possession of controlled substances, DL license revoked 

 
- DUMPED Prostitutes BODY in hallway and LEFT TO DIE. USES PROSTITUES and HEROIN.

#230 - ---- ----------

 
- Tenant Houses Homeless People to Drink, Drug, and Party With at ALL hours of the Day & Night

#235 - -  Tenant committed SUICIDE  - November 2017

#238 - ---- Tenant Openly Smokes Marijuana on the Premises

#130 - --- - [2016] Tenant Evicted after threatening boyfriend with butcher knife

#136 - --- Tenant LOVES Prostitutes Prostitute Stole Master Key to APTs when tenant worked for SHA

#138 - --------- - People partying at all Hours of Day & Night

#139 - ---- - DRUG DEALER - People coming and going at all Hours of Day and Night

Building #724 (East Side Tenants) ---


BUILDING #718 Apartments
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1=Mild  2=Moderate  3=Severe  4=Chronic 



 - Deadly
 - Very Bad
 - Bad
 - Problematic
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#301 - -----------

 
- TENANT EVICTED - October 2016- [2017] Tenant seen on property with known drug users despite EVICTION

#304 - - - Harboring Homeless Drug-Addicted Non-Residents

#200 - -- - Tenant BANGING on WALLS in middle of night, waking neighbors

#203 - --------

 
-- -  4 Previous Unlawful Detainers (Eviction) Notices 

#206 - -----

#105 - ------- - Parties with Drug-Addicted Prostitutes

#102 - ----- - Threatens Women with Violence Watches PORN in Community Room

Building #718 - --



BUILDING #720 - Community Room & Management Office


Utility Room Entrance

Utility Room


Mens Room

Womens Room		 Utility Closet

Spare Office

Kitchen


Management Office

Entrance

Community Room


  - King County Metro Bus drivers have brought Prostitutes into Mens Room to service their needs.
  - Metro Bus drivers get a Key from SHA to use the bathroom during their layovers.


- Tenants surfing Porn on computers in Community Room & Offending Other Tenants

- Tenants using Rest Rooms as their own Personal Bathrooms & Stealing TP and Paper

- Tenants using Rest Rooms to retaliate against Seattle Housing Authority by Soiling it on purpose

- Tenants STEALING community items from community room and NOT RETURNING them

- Vagrants and Homeless Living in Community Room and Utility Room by Parking Lot

TRICOURT TENANT BREAKDOWN CHART



SEE ABOVE FOR TENANT DETAILS

* data taken mid 2016



SEEING and HEARING is BELIEVING




HOMELESS UNDER STAIRWELLS

Residents in Building #718 and #722 have complained about HOMELESS people living under their STAIRWELLS.

TENANTS have found URINE and FECES in STAIRWELLS which they have CLEANED UP because SHA STAFF REFUSED TO.

YES! It's TRUE, UNFORTUNATELY!



HOMELESS IN HALLWAYS

Residents in Building #722 have had HOMELESS living in their HALLWAYS.



DRINKING, DRUGGING, PROSTITUTION, SEX, PARTIES, FIGHTING & More ...

Tenants are subjected routinely to Extremely Loud Noise, Fighting and Screaming by people using DRUGS and ALCOHOL.

Tenants are routinely witness PROSTITUTION in their buildings and the CRIMINAL ELEMENTS associated with them.



SEVERE MENTAL HEALTH & DRUGS DONT GO TOGETHER


Tenants are routinely subjected to people with SEVERE MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES who use DRUGS and/or ALCOHOL and then GO BERZERK and ATTACK TENANTS or THREATEN THEM WITH VOILENCE.



LISTEN to TRICOURT Resident get THREATENED BY ANOTHER TENANT Not in Control of their Mental Faculties
[WARNING: This is Disturbing and Profane]



THE PARTY NEVER STOPS AT TRICOURT


Tenants are routinely subjected to other tenants who BLARE THEIR STEREOS and TV's at ALL HOURS OF THE DAY AND NIGHT.

WATCH and LISTEN to what is a typical TENANT BLARING THEIR STEREO.


[AUDIO ONLY] of TENANT ABOVE.




PICTURES
GRAFITTI on Garbage Dumpster in back parking lot. Took months before SHA did anything about it.
SMASHED FRONT DOOR. What happens when A DISTURBED TENANT tried to KICK IN the FRONT DOOR of Building 722.
 GUESTS SMASHING ENTRYWAY WINDOWS  WHAT HAPPENS when there is a DRUG DEALING TENANT whose GUESTS/CLIENTS dont gain entry into the building TO GET THEIR FIX.  They get MAD ... REAL MAD!   [Bldg 724 South Access Door]

SEE BAD TENANTS for more INFORMATION.
DAMAGED DRYER DOOR. What happens when Severe Drunks and Drug addicts take out their AGGRESSION on shared community resources.
PEOPLE URINATING IN STAIRWELL What happens when TENANTS or their GUESTS are HIGH and have NO CONCERN for themselves or their NEIGHBORS. One WEEK LATER after NO-ONE has DONE ANYTHING to CLEAN IT UP!

SEE SHA DeadBeat DISEASE for more INFORMATION.
DAMAGED LAUNDRY DOOR. Laundry door FRAME BROKEN and DOOR HINGE BENT from some DERANGED Individual or Individuals.
SMASHED DOOR. What happens when a tenant is HIGH and INTOXICATED and tries to KICK-IN his FRONT DOOR because his "Girlfriend" is TOO FRIGHTENED to OPEN the DOOR.
DUMPING HAZARDOUS WASTE. TENANTS regularly are faced with WASTE of ALL TYPES being dumped in building COMMON AREAS including Hallways, Lobbies, Stairwells, and the Elevator.
INFAMOUS BACKDOOR of BUILDING 722. PROSTITUTES affiliated with the TENANT in Apt #129 which was featured on KIRO TV Channel 7 were doing there business with their JOHNS back here. TENANTS regularly found Rubbers and Needles. A used mattress provided extra comfort for clients.
HUMAN WASTE under STAIRWELL. TENANTS in Building 722 discovered Food, Clothing, and Human Waste Under the East Stairwell. It was SO GROSS that SHA Staff were unwilling to clean up the mess. TENANTS had to clean the area. SHA REFUSES to this DAY to Spray Wash the area because they say it will damage electrical wiring in the stairwell.

SEE SHA Un-Management for more information
GARBAGE ATTRACTS ANIMALS and VERMIN RATS, SQUIRRELS, and Other ANIMALS and INSECTS are treated to a BUFFET of GARBAGE Strewn about the premises. It's not just a TENANT Safety issue, it's a PUBLIC HEALTH ISSUE.
CARS BLOCK ACCESS TO GARBAGE BINS. Garbage trucks cant access GARBAGE BINS, Garbage Bins OVERFLOW, and ANIMALS and VERMIN Proliferate!
BAD NEIGHBORS - Tressa Apartments (14200 Linden Ave N). What was formerly a run-down Trailer Park with drive-thru drug service has now turned into a Megagopolis Mix-Use complex. It also has turned into a base for Drug Dealers and Prostitutes who use Tricourt's BACK PARKING LOT as place to SERVICE their CLIENTS.
BAD NEIGHBORS - Cedar Pointe Apartments (750 N. 143rd St- RIGHT SIDE). Apartment Complex neighboring Tri-Court has been DUMPING its YARD WASTE on Tri-court's most Easterly Side for DECADES! Seattle Housing Authority seem to TURN a BLIND EYE to it all.
BAD NEIGHBORS - Northline Apartments (14355 Linden Ave N) - aka Linden Tree Apartments aka The Woodland Pointe Apartments. The Apartment Complex just North of Tri-Court Apartments used to be a thru-way from Linden Ave N to Fremont Ave N. A fence was erected on the West Side of the complex stopping thru-traffic. The property just West of this fence has become a NO-MANS LAND / GARBAGE DUMP. Its also provides a passage way for HOOLIGANS, MALCONTENTS, and TAGGERS who jump fences and do whatever they please.

SEE Satellite View here
QUESTIONS







How Does a SHA Tenant Get Away with  Killing Someone? 
  • VERY EASILY IT SEEMS !
  • and you wont be EVICTED either !
  • How does the King County Judicial System and SHA FAIL to protect tenants so grossly?

    REFERENCE:  King County Superior Court Case Number: 15-2-03870-2 











Why is SHA Admitting  Dangerous Tenants? 
  •  Criminals  with extensive criminal histories
  • Pimps
  • Prostitutes
  • Drug Dealers
  • Hard Core Drug Addicts
  • Hard Core Alcoholics
  • Tenants affiliated with Gangs
  • Violent Tenants with Severe Psychiatric Disorders - (danger to themselves & others)
  • Severely Developmentally Disabled Tenants - (cant discern between Right & Wrong)
  • Chronic Smokers in a NON-Smoking Facility


How is it that anyone can quickly access Washington State, King County & Seattle Municipal Records (for FREE) and find people with extensive criminal histories and NOT BE FLAGGED? as a THREAT to those around them?












How Much  Money  is SHA Costing Tax Payers ?
  •  Probably a Lot More than Anyone Really knows! 
    • Is IMPACT PROPERTIES (SHA's Maintenance Arm)  bilking  the system?

      → Is this why Maintenance Work Orders seldomly get filled?
    • How much  Property Destruction  are PROBLEM TENANTS costing SHA?
    • How many man-hours are problem tenants costing SHA?
    • How much  Property Destruction  is SHA letting 3rd Party Vendors get away with?
    • Is paying more than  1/4 of Million Dollars  for 2 SPD Officers the most efficient use of monies for public safety within SHA?

















Why is SHA Living in a Fantasy World?
  • SHA management have let tenants at Tricourt know that they will be treated like  "regular" tenants. 
    • although this appears  legally expedient  how does this address the fact that most tenants are disabled and NOT regular tenants and have special needs. That is why they are here in the 1rst place.


  • How can SHA Tenants feel safe when SHA Harbors Hardened Criminals and Bad Tenants who do what the want without fear of reprisals?
      • SEATTLE HOUSING AUTHORITY MISSION STATEMENT

      The mission of the Seattle Housing Authority is to provide, within a financially sound framework, decent,  safe , and affordable housing for low-income persons in an environment that enables a resident to live with dignity.

      • To provide housing means facilitating, planning, developing, building, acquiring, managing, renting, selling, financing, maintaining, and improving properties or housing for low-income persons. In providing this housing, the Housing Authority can carry out these activities itself or it can jointly venture or contract with any other public or private party under powers granted by the Washington State Housing Authorities Law.

      • Decent housing is housing which meets an individual's or a family's basic shelter needs

      • Safe housing is housing which meets building and health code standards, and provides residents with a sense of security

      • Affordable housing means the amount paid for shelter does not unduly impact an individual's or a family's ability to provide for other basic human needs

      • Low income is income below 80% of area median, adjusted for family size

      • To live with dignity means the living environment recognizes the inherent worth of every person. This environment maintains the privacy of the individual and minimizes the public institutional nature of the housing and services provided. It is more than a roof overhead. It is person-centered. It promotes general health and well-being and encourages residents to share responsibility for that health and well-being

      • To be responsible means paying rent on time, or promptly making other arrangements acceptable to SHA for full payment. It further means taking good care of the dwelling unit, both inside and out, and promptly reporting any necessary repairs. To be responsible also means respecting neighbors and not placing an undue burden on neighbors or staff through failure to respect the rights of others. Finally, to be responsible means honoring the provisions of the lease.

      • Human service providers are public and private agencies which provide social and health services to SHA residents. Family, friends and human service providers have the primary responsibility for ensuring that residents have all necessary services. SHA has the responsibility for facilitating and coordinating the provision of services, but not providing such services directly.











Why are SHA Employees Unable to Do Their Jobs
& Why are Tenants Having to Do their Jobs for Them?
  • Why are Repair & Maintenance Work Orders selectively implemented? if at all sometimes!
  • Why are Tenants having to clean their own buildings and the grounds on a continuous basis?
  • Why does SHA seem unable to take action towards BAD TENANTS?
  • Are SHA Employees so overworked they are incapable of completing their assignments or are they just lazy and bilking the system?
SOLUTIONS


Better Vetting Process
  • Disallow perspective tenants with;
    • extensive criminal backgrounds
    • severe mental health issues (danger to themselves or others)
    • severely developmentally disabled (dont know right from wrong)
    • Have multiple previous evictions (Unlawful Detainers)


      • These tenants should be directed to institutions that are better suited to handling these groups of people.

       Especially since SHA is NOT Willing to deal with these people and their issues and put other tenants and the surrounding community at risk. 

  • Validate the effectivity of current background check vendors

    Current Background Check Vendor:   www.airfactz.com






Weed Out Bad Tenants & Bad SHA Employees

Weed out Bad Tenants
  • Criminals: Drug Dealers, Pimps, Prostitutes
  • Tenants Affiliated with Gangs
  • Practicing Drug Addicts
  • Hard Core Alcoholics
  • Tenants with Severe Mental Health Issues (danger to themselves & Others)


Weed out Bad SHA Employees
  • Dont do their assigned jobs
    • dont show up for work at assigned times
    • dont enter or throw out maintenance work orders
    • dont clean the premises
  • Are belligerent & not mindful of tenants and their disabilities
  • Avoid tenants & their needs
  • Descriminate openly








Better Security
  • Need better security cameras in buildings. Current ones are TOO OLD.
  • Need 3 additional Security Cameras for unsecured doors in each building
  • Emphasis Patrols when things escalate
  • Secure Utility Rooms so they cant be broken into
  • Onsite manager
    (someone with authority who has been vetted, licensed, or bonded)







SHA Accountability & Better Financial Management
  • Independant Financial Audit, Review, & Recommendations
  • Independant Audit of Management, Review, & Recommendations







Vendor Integrity & Accountability
  • Independant Audit, Review, & Recommendations




WHY SHOULD ANYONE CARE?
Seattle Housing Authority
 Manages Some  28,000  Tenants  in the  City of Seattle 
  • Seattle Housing Authority (SHA) manages many properties throughout the City of Seattle and Thousands of Tenants. These properties are located in most major neighborhoods all over Seattle. SHA's inability to adequately address or outright neglect issues related to BAD TENANTS directly affects the properties and the surrounding communities.
    •  Criminals  are  given a base of operations 
    •  Criminals  attract more  Criminals 
    • BAD TENANTS destroy property costing  TAX PAYERS MONEY 
    • CRIMINALS and BAD TENANTS are a burden on POLICE and THE FIRE DEPT unnecessarily  TAXING CITY RESOURCES  that are already STRETCHED
    • CHRONIC SMOKERS are a  Health Hazard  and  Fire Hazard  costing  Human Lives and Countless Dollars 

SEE Tricourt Tenant Breakdown CHART to see how Percentages were calculated




CONTACTS


SHA Contact Position Tel Email Information
Andrew Lofton Executive Director (206) 615-3500 [email protected] Director since 2012, with SHA since 2004
Anne Fiske Zuniga Deputy Executive Director (206) 615-3480 [email protected]

Shelly Yapp		 Chief Financial Officer (206) 615-3390 [email protected]
Kerry Coughlin Director of Communications (206) 615-3506 [email protected]
James Fearn General Counsel (206) 615-3570 [email protected]
Bessie Scott SHA Sr. Legal Assistant (206) 615-3500 [email protected]
Stephanie Van Dyke Director of Development (206) 615-3525 [email protected]
Cynthia West Director of Housing Choice Voucher Program (206) 239-1616 [email protected]
Ann-Marie Lindboe Director of Housing Finance and Asset Management (206) 615-3553 [email protected]
Lisa Wolters Director of Intergovernmental Relations (206) 239-1523 [email protected]
Andria Lazaga Director of Policy (206) 615-3546 [email protected]
Dean Barnes Human Resources Director (206) 615-3323 [email protected]
John Forsyth Community Services Administrator (206) 615-3579 [email protected]
Steve McDowell Chief Information Officer (206) 615-3442 [email protected]
Rod Brandon

Don Ashlock		 SHA Operations (206) 615-3510 [email protected]

Jake LeBlanc

 Tricourt Administrator (206) 239-1668 [email protected]
Tristan Heart-Myers

Lori Baird - Left
Daniel Hannah - P/T
Bruce Garberding - (Retired)		 Tricourt Senior Property Manager (206) 239-1680 [email protected] Oversees 9 SHA Properties including Tricourt
James Suarez

Michelle Morris
Denise Wright - P/T
Frankie Johnson
Lisa Dressler		 Tricourt Property Manager (206) 361-0357

(206) 239-1681		 [email protected]

[email protected]		 Manages 7 Properties including Tricourt
Minney McKinney Tricourt Resident Manager 1 Position No longer Exists. Responsible for Maintenance Work Orders, Parking, Laundry equipment, Elevator, Spills, Verifications, SHA forms, ACAM key card replacement, Vacates

Suzie Lam - P/T
Stanley Marsh
Tiwania Bardwell
Rebecca Bailey
Sandra Stringham
Gwen Sojourner - Left		 Tricourt Administrative Specialist 3 Position No Longer Exists. Responsible for Annual review, Special review, Loss of income, Lease conditions, Rent payments, Account questions, Complaints, ADA "504" request, Transfers
Kalayu "Simba" Alamae - Left
Mitch Kaeppel
Romiz Sobir - Left		 Tricourt Assistant Resident Manager Position No Longer Exists. On-site managers responsible for property maintenance and on-call 24/7 via pager.
Rebecca Thompson Tricourt Assistant Property Manager (206) 361-3779 [email protected] Does Financial Reviews for Tricourt, Lake City House, & Denny Terrace
Erena Leger

Jelana Ilijasevic

Brian Fuson - Retired
Bruce Ford - Retired		 Tricourt Property Assistant (206) 361-3779 [email protected]

[email protected]		 Maintenance for Tricourt & Lictonwood Properties
Ellen Ziontz
Marcia Johnson		 SHA Community Builder (206) 239-1625 [email protected] Attends Tricourt Resident Council Meetings


Seattle Police Position Tel Email Information
Robert Howard

Mike Thomas		 SPD/SHA Liaison Officer (206) 386-9112 [email protected] SPD Liaison Officer for  All North End SHA Properties 
Officer
[First Name ?] Bell		 SPD/SHA Liaison Officer (206) 386-9112
? ? ?
 SPD Liaison Officer for All South End SHA Properties

 * No one has ever met this officer, EVER! 
Officer #3 SPD/SHA Liaison Officer (206) 386-9112
? ? ?
 SPD Liaison Officer for ALL SHA Properties (Night Shift)

 * No one has ever met this officer, EVER! 


SHA Board of Commissioners Position Tel Email Information
Nora Gibson Chair (206) 615-3501
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7-member board.

Appointed by;
  • City of Seattle Mayor
  • and Confirmed by Seattle City Council
  • 2 are SHA residents

Responsible for approving;
  • SHA's annual Budget
  • Setting SHA Policies
  • SHA's Executive Director serves the Board

Regular Board Meetings
3rd Monday of the Month
5:00 PM
190 Queen Anne Ave N
(1rst Floor)
Seattle, WA 98109

Deborah Canavan Thiele Vice Chair
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Emily Abbey SHA Resident Board Member
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Aser Ashkir SHA Resident Board Member
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Kollin Min Board Member
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Zachary Pullin Board Member
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Jermaine Smiley Board Member
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Tricourt Contact Tel Information
Resident Council
 Office Number:
(206) 367-1681

Presidents Number:
(206) 353-0629
The Resident Council has monthly meetings.

Resident Council Meetings
3rd Tuesday of the Month
6:00 pm
Bulding #720 - Community Room

The council includes a President, Treasurer, Secretary, and At-Large members.

The resident council concerns itself with;
  • Raising funds for community activities and equipment through grants
  • Setting up dinners & potlucks for Holidays
  • Garden Plot issues
  • Disability Access issues
  • Resident Council Office Equipment & Maintenance
  • Community Room Computer Equipment, Kitchen, and Room Upkeep & Maintenance
  • Disseminating Information from RAC (Resident Action Council) and JPAC (Joint Policy Advisory Committee) meetings to residents via bulletins & monthly meetings
  • and more
Best Contact Times: Noon-5pm & some evenings (Mon-Sun)
Tricourt TENANTS
Feel free to contact Tricourt Tenants at any time.

Most Tenants are willing to talk to;
  • the Main-Stream Media
  • Activists & Community Groups
  • Anyone who will listen
... about the issues they face living on the premises and in the area.

Lots of tenants congregate in the Community Room (Building #720).

Also people are coming and going from the premises all the time.

Best Contact Times - Noon to 5:00 pm (Mon-Sun) and Evenings

Street Address: 720 N. 143rd St, Seattle WA, 98133

Satellite Map of Tricourt: Click here