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You know, Sheletta makes you laugh.
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But did you know, Sheletta Brundidge can also make you think?
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And boost your business.
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Media personality, activists and comedian Sheletta Brundidge
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founded Sheletta Makes Me Laugh to celebrate and share
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the best of black culture.
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It's a podcasting platform.
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You can download 10 weekly podcasts hosted
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by African American subject experts at ShelettaMakesMeLaugh.com
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or wherever you find your favorite podcasts.
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ShelettaMakesMeLaugh.com is also a production house,
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creating broadcast quality commercial content.
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And Sheletta and her team of storytellers
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create powerful promotional campaigns
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to get businesses the brand awareness they're looking for.
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Some of Minnesota's top businesses trust Sheletta.
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And you can too.
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with Sheletta MakesMeLaugh.com.
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She's got the power to help your business.
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Sheletta Brundidge is known as the autism mom,
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not just because she's got three kids on the spectrum,
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but because she's an advocate who works to educate
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and inspire other moms of kids with special needs.
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♪ Yeah, and a sense of pride ♪
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Hey everybody and welcome to taking authority
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over autism, the podcast that is for buying about families,
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caregivers, Nana's, Papas, TTs, and uncles
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who have someone in their life they care about
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who is on the spectrum.
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My name is Sheletta Brundidge.
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I'm the host of the show.
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For those of you who are joining us for the first time,
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welcome.
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I'm not sure how you found us, but I am so glad you did.
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This world is crazy.
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This is our safe space where we have fun
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and we stick together.
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Right, we laugh together, we cry together,
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we celebrate.
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And for all of my A1s from day one
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who've been rocking with me each and every week
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for the past six years,
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the this show has been broadcasted on Apple, Spotify,
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and wherever you get your podcasts.
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Welcome back.
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Pull up a chair, take a seat, take a walk,
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because we've all taken a trip down memory lane.
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Now, y'all know me as an Emmy award winning comedian.
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I've got the podcast network.
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I got the best center, autism, children's books.
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I'm a media personality, but I will take you back
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to the 1970s or early 80s.
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With little bowl-legged letter, Miss Anadine's granddaughter
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was playing a violin at Bruce Elementary
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and grew up in Kelly Village.
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We used to call it the Kelly Course.
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They got fancy and start calling it the Kelly Village.
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OK, that's fifth-war projects.
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And I have what I have, but I am what I am today
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because of the tribe, the ladies in Kelly Village,
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who helped my mama raise me, Miss Virginia, Miss Ethel May,
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Miss Lena May, Miss Lucille.
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All these ladies were there to help God and shepherd me.
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And they treated me as if I was their own daughter.
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They got on me when I needed.
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They loved me when I needed.
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They showed up at the violin recitals
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when my mama couldn't be there, because she worked 3-11.
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They watched me get in the house.
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They made sure I left for school on time.
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They fed us and they loved and nurtured everybody.
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I wouldn't have gotten that if I was not living in the Kelly
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Course.
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And I just remember when we had to live with my grandmother,
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we had to wait for the wait list to come open so that my mother
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could apply so that she could get her own apartment
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and then my aunt's wind up getting their own apartment.
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And she said, it wasn't a place where we stayed.
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It was a stepping stone.
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And eventually my mom got her own house,
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looking me, I'm a homeowner.
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I'm passing that legacy down to my children.
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And so when I saw that the wait list was open
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and people could apply for housing,
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I said, let me get the Daveta Thomas on the shelf.
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Because I don't want nobody missing this opportunity
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to get on this list. It's open. It's available.
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Thank you so much, Ms. Daveta Thomas, for being on the show.
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Thank you so much for having me.
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Now, I want to tell people who you are.
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So they don't think I'm just pulling folk off the street.
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She is with Housing Alliance HTX.
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She is the pre-emissions and occupancy manager.
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You've been there with the Alliance since 2022.
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Talk to me about your role there.
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All right, my role here is to help maintain the wait list
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for our public housing properties.
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So my job is to make sure that everyone that is on those wait lists
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have an opportunity to apply for the housing that they need.
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So I've been doing this, even my background,
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before coming to Housing Alliance.
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I've been in the business for over 20 years,
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managed other properties in the Houston area, fifth ward.
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I was at Clemmy Manor, so I'm used to the city,
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acres homes, but my background is in wait list management.
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So this is what I do.
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OK, now when you say wait list management,
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tell me what that entails.
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Wait list management is making sure
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that people are called and contacted from the wait list
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in the proper order, and that everyone that has their name
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on that wait list has their appropriate chance to apply.
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Just because you're on the wait list
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doesn't mean that you're going to be approved,
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but you do always are guaranteed to have the opportunity
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to complete your application and go through the process.
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And that's my job is to make sure no matter what number you are,
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you get your chance to go in and apply.
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OK, so I was reading Houston Chronicle.
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I saw that the public housing wait list was open,
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and people could apply.
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What does that entail?
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What does that look like now with the internet and everything
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going on?
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She had to call and she had to get something to mail,
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and she had to fill out an application.
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She had to put it back in the mail and send it in.
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And wait for something to come in the mail to tell her she was approved.
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I'm guessing that ain't like that number.
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No, it's not like that anymore.
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The good news is everything can be done online,
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and you can start through our website at alliancehtx.org.
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We do have an application portal called Red Cafe.
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You can go in right now, set up your profile with everybody
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who's going to be in your household so that when that wait list opens on Monday,
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all you have to do is log back in and apply for the properties that you want to apply for.
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And you can have up to three choices.
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OK, and so, say for instance, you have a child who may be going to the military
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or a senior in your house who may be going off to college.
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How does that work if your housing dynamic is going to change in the future?
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Well, once you get on that wait list, you can go ahead and make any changes
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that you need to to your household through the Red Cafe portal.
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It's your own personal access to make those types of changes,
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even before you actually get approved into the apartment complex.
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Once you're in the property, of course, everything can be handled through your leasing office.
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But until that time comes, that Red Cafe portal is your own personal account
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that you can make those kind of changes to.
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OK, so we got the Red Cafe portal.
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Is it difficult to navigate?
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Do you have some folks who can help people if they feel overwhelmed?
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I myself have assisted people here in our own lobby setting up their Red Cafe.
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And let me tell you from beginning to end,
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if you have all your information together, an available takes less than five minutes.
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But if you're just not computer savvy, which not everyone is,
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it's a new day and age and with our seniors and things like that,
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we do have people here housing aligns that are going to be available to assist.
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OK, now tell me this, once it opens up and people are able to go into a plot,
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what's the next step of life?
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How long will it be open?
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And then when will people get callbacks or to let them know whether they've been accepted or rejected?
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OK, so the wait list is going to be open from June 22nd into July 6th.
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Now, we are doing ours as a lottery system.
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So it allows anybody within that timeframe to have an equal opportunity to be on that wait list.
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So it's going to draw names off of that collective pool of applicants.
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Now, the Red Cafe, once with the lottery is completed,
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is going to notify you by email whether you're selected or not selected.
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OK, and then if you're selected, it will also give you the information
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about what your next steps are going to be,
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and just to wait until you're contacted by the individual property.
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So by the end of July, whether you apply or not or gets selected or not, you will know.
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OK, how do we make sure that we can see this email and it doesn't go to spam?
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Because the last thing I want to happen is somebody say,
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I didn't even know it went in my spam folder.
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I didn't see it, so I didn't respond.
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I didn't know what was going on.
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When you set up your Red Cafe account, it's going to send you an email.
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So at that point, you do want to make sure that your email of inbox acknowledges
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that this is a trusted email so that it goes into your inbox and not your spam.
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And that's something we can do either if you're here sitting across from you,
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we can make sure that I understand that that is a trusted email.
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Because every little change you do is going to send you an email.
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So we can always make sure if you don't see it for the first registration,
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we can make sure that change is necessary.
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So it's going into your inbox.
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Okay, you said you've sat with people, where you at?
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Because somebody might need to contact you.
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I'm at housing alliance HTX, we're located right here at 2640 Fountain View.
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Okay, and so do people need an appointment to come in,
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talk to me about how they get those additional services.
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If they're a computer insecure, if they don't have internet services,
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if they just feel a little overwhelmed,
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or they don't have the mental capacity to fill that out by themselves.
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Our lobby is open from 8 to 6.
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So there is always somebody available to go ahead and help in this issue
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with getting in rent cafe.
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We have their train, their knowledgeable, they can answer any questions.
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I will be here.
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I hope some people come in and ask for me.
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Come talk to me.
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I'm here.
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I can answer any questions that you have about different properties,
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the weightless management, but there will be somebody here
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at housing alliance to assist you.
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I'm so glad you said that because a lot of times people feel overwhelmed
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and they feel like they don't have anybody that they can connect with.
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They feel like they have to do it by themselves.
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And a lot of times they'll reach out to family and friends
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who don't know how to do it either.
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Then everybody's sitting up there messing up.
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And so if you had to talk to somebody about getting ready to fill out this application,
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what do they need?
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I want to make sure that they are ready and prepared and not frustrated.
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You may have to come back to an application once or twice, but not five, six,
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fifty, eleven times.
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The main thing you need to have is everyone's data birth and social security number.
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Make sure you know exactly who you want to be enlisted in that household
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when you complete the application because the number of people on your application
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determines the number of bedrooms that you can qualify for.
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So if you know you're going to have five people in your household,
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please don't just put your name because it's going to limit your choices.
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Let's make sure we have all of our information together and ready.
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And then the process just moves a whole lot smoother and an estimation of your annual income.
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OK.
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Go ahead.
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The annual income isn't something that we verify just at this moment
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because it's going to be verified once you get to the property,
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but it is a question that is going to be asked.
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So that's just something that people need to be aware of.
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OK.
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Now, what are you hearing from people when they come in?
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What's the thing that's most challenging for them about feeling out the application?
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The most thing I'm hearing right now is not so much the application itself.
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It's just the question of the difference between the programs.
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Knowing the difference between public housing, section eight,
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which is the voucher program and some of the others.
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It's more of an education about what to expect from the wait list.
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If you're coming looking for a voucher, this is not the wait list for that.
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This is for moving into one of our dedicated owned properties that are professionally managed.
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The housing choice voucher wait list unfortunately has remained closed
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and is not expected to open right now.
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But this is if you are looking to move into one of our properties of public housing,
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this is the wait list you want to be on.
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Now, give me that website again so that people can go get this information.
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It's alliance HTX dot org.
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Well, I can't thank you enough for helping me get this information out here.
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Again, I was a project here grew up in Kelly Village.
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And I don't think that I would be the woman of God that I am today had.
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I not had those strong female role models and that village there helping not only my mother,
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but helping me and my siblings.
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And we are all blessed today because of the time we spent there.
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So thank you for the time you spent with me, Ms. Daveta Thomas.
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Yes, ma'am. And working in this industry for over 20 years,
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I've really seen that the apartment complexes really do build community.
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And unfortunately, the stigma of them is sometimes not always the best,
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but we always must remember that our main goal is to provide housing to people who need housing,
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need dedicated housing that may be having some issues.
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And we want to make sure all of Houston knows that they have an opportunity right now
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to get on this wait list.
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And again, this is a stepping stone. It's not a staying stone.
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You know, storms don't come to stay. They come to pay us.
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And this may be a season in your life where you need some housing.
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You need some additional assistance.
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You know, I look at the statistics and 300,000 Black women have been forced from
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the workforce.
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It's been decreased from five, six figure salaries to zero.
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And they've been looking for jobs for two or three years.
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And so this may be an opportunity for a stop gap measure for you and your family,
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while you're looking for housing.
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with a relative or a friend, this may be for you.
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And you know, Ms. Daveta Thomas, as well as I do, that Black women don't want to tell nobody they be.
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You know, they don't want to say they're doing bad.
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We don't want to talk about it.
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She had been living in her car.
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I mean, our wait list is just one of many options.
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And housing alliance, yes, we provide housing,
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but we also have connections to other services.
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So please, if anybody is in need of assistance, we're here always to assist.
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And I want you to remember, if you're walking, driving, doing laundry, you got your earbuds in,
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you can't get to a pen and a paper.
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You don't want to miss this information.
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You want to share it with your friends and family.
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We have the information in our show notes.
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If you just go back to wherever you're listening to this podcast on your smart tablet or
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mobile device right there in the show notes with Ms. Daveta Thomas's name and my name.
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This is going to be links.
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This is going to be addresses.
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This is going to be phone numbers.
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You can click on that.
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You can share the link and just make sure that your girlfriend
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ain't sitting up here sleeping in the car.
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That your family members who are in transition because, you know, the woman, the,
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the single mother, the divorce mother has lost her job and she still got two or three kids to raise.
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This may be the blessing that they've been praying for.
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Share this information with them.
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Use it if you need it.
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Take it to your church.
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Put it in the bulletin.
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Make sure the folks in your network and community know about it.
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Ms. Daveta Thomas, thank you so much for being here.
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Thank you.
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I really appreciate you for helping us get this word out.
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We really want to make sure we get a really good turnout for this wait list opening.
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Amen.
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Amen.
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Well, we appreciate you and I appreciate y'all for listening.
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Now listen, y'all know how we do.
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You're not the only one who needs this.
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You know somebody.
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A niece.
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An uncle.
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Somebody needs this information.
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We talk a lot about meeting people where they're at.
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that's always had meaning to me, but earlier this year that really took a new shape.
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I really value the fact that we have a space where people can come in
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and to receive these services.
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But not out all people feel safe anymore.
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Coming out, going places.
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And just re-looking at what does it truly mean to meet people where they're at.
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And how do we effectively do that?
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Has been a really big part of what this year's looked like for us.
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Sometimes we believe those lines that we are no good.
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That maybe you know this is all there is.
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And when I got sober I realized no there's something more fighting for it.
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And I'm out here every day fighting for it for myself.
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For the women in my community, for my love.
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But this way-make is a big part of that.
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So I'm just grateful.
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I'm so grateful.
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And I couldn't have done it without being sober of course.
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And you know, having the good support.
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Because nobody can do it alone.
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Community means showing up for one another.
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For me and I think for our community, because many across the United Health Group will talk
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similarly about the support that we felt.
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I think it underscores to us the profound need and the profound importance of what it feels like
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when your community supports you.
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So it's with that that the United Health Care Foundation is very proud to announce
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$1 million of support for our community partners, the Washburn Center,
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Catholic Community Foundation in Minnesota, which includes the
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annunciation, hope and healing fund, the Greater Minneapolis Crisis Nursery and Minneapolis
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foundations.
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Was your house built before 1978?
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Then it may contain lead.
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And no level of lead in the home is safe.
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Especially for children.
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It can cause developmental delays, learning difficulties, irritability and a loss of appetite.
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But our hope is not lost.
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Thanks to your program in Hempkin County, you can protect your family by removing the
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sources of lead from your home.
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They have free home tests and up to $15,000 in grant money to do the work, including windows.
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To get the details, just go to HealthyHomes.Henipin.us.
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That's HealthyHomes.Henipin.us.
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National voter registration day is coming up on September 15,
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and Hempkin County elections is hosting a voter registration drive to celebrate.
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You can check your registration and get registered on the Skyway level of the Hempkin
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County Government Center at 300 South Sixth Street, Minneapolis.
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You can check polling places, get sample ballots and make sure you're prepared to vote and no vote.
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I'm proud to see my needs of reaches.
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You know, Sheletta makes you laugh.
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But did you know, Sheletta Brundidge can also make you think?
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And boost your business.
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Media personality, activists and comedian Sheletta Brundidge
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founded Sheletta Makes Me Laugh to celebrate and share
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the best of black culture.
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It's a podcasting platform.
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You can download 10 weekly podcasts hosted
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by African American subject experts at ShelettaMakesMeLaugh.com
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or wherever you find your favorite podcasts.
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ShelettaMakesMeLaugh.com is also a production house,
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creating broadcast quality commercial content.
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And Sheletta and her team of storytellers
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create powerful promotional campaigns
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to get businesses the brand awareness they're looking for.
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Some of Minnesota's top businesses trust Sheletta.
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Get out the word about your events and products
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She's got the power to help your business.
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Sheletta Brundidge is known as the autism mom,
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not just because she's got three kids on the spectrum,
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but because she's an advocate who works to educate
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♪ Yeah, and a sense of pride ♪
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Hey everybody and welcome to taking authority
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over autism, the podcast that is for buying about families,
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caregivers, Nana's, Papas, TTs, and uncles
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who have someone in their life they care about
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who is on the spectrum.
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My name is Sheletta Brundidge.
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I'm the host of the show.
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For those of you who are joining us for the first time,
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welcome.
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I'm not sure how you found us, but I am so glad you did.
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This world is crazy.
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This is our safe space where we have fun
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and we stick together.
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Right, we laugh together, we cry together,
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we celebrate.
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And for all of my A1s from day one
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who've been rocking with me each and every week
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for the past six years,
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the this show has been broadcasted on Apple, Spotify,
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and wherever you get your podcasts.
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Welcome back.
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Pull up a chair, take a seat, take a walk,
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because we've all taken a trip down memory lane.
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Now, y'all know me as an Emmy award winning comedian.
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I've got the podcast network.
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I got the best center, autism, children's books.
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I'm a media personality, but I will take you back
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to the 1970s or early 80s.
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With little bowl-legged letter, Miss Anadine's granddaughter
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was playing a violin at Bruce Elementary
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and grew up in Kelly Village.
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We used to call it the Kelly Course.
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They got fancy and start calling it the Kelly Village.
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OK, that's fifth-war projects.
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And I have what I have, but I am what I am today
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because of the tribe, the ladies in Kelly Village,
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who helped my mama raise me, Miss Virginia, Miss Ethel May,
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Miss Lena May, Miss Lucille.
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All these ladies were there to help God and shepherd me.
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They got on me when I needed.
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They loved me when I needed.
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They showed up at the violin recitals
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when my mama couldn't be there, because she worked 3-11.
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They watched me get in the house.
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They made sure I left for school on time.
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They fed us and they loved and nurtured everybody.
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we had to wait for the wait list to come open so that my mother
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and then my aunt's wind up getting their own apartment.
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It was a stepping stone.
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looking me, I'm a homeowner.
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I'm passing that legacy down to my children.
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and people could apply for housing,
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I said, let me get the Daveta Thomas on the shelf.
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Because I don't want nobody missing this opportunity
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to get on this list. It's open. It's available.
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Thank you so much, Ms. Daveta Thomas, for being on the show.
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Thank you so much for having me.
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Now, I want to tell people who you are.
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So they don't think I'm just pulling folk off the street.
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She is with Housing Alliance HTX.
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She is the pre-emissions and occupancy manager.
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You've been there with the Alliance since 2022.
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Talk to me about your role there.
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All right, my role here is to help maintain the wait list
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for our public housing properties.
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So my job is to make sure that everyone that is on those wait lists
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have an opportunity to apply for the housing that they need.
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So I've been doing this, even my background,
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before coming to Housing Alliance.
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I've been in the business for over 20 years,
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managed other properties in the Houston area, fifth ward.
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I was at Clemmy Manor, so I'm used to the city,
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acres homes, but my background is in wait list management.
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So this is what I do.
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OK, now when you say wait list management,
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tell me what that entails.
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Wait list management is making sure
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that people are called and contacted from the wait list
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in the proper order, and that everyone that has their name
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on that wait list has their appropriate chance to apply.
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Just because you're on the wait list
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doesn't mean that you're going to be approved,
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but you do always are guaranteed to have the opportunity
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to complete your application and go through the process.
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And that's my job is to make sure no matter what number you are,
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you get your chance to go in and apply.
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OK, so I was reading Houston Chronicle.
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I saw that the public housing wait list was open,
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and people could apply.
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What does that entail?
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What does that look like now with the internet and everything
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going on?
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She had to call and she had to get something to mail,
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and she had to fill out an application.
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She had to put it back in the mail and send it in.
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And wait for something to come in the mail to tell her she was approved.
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I'm guessing that ain't like that number.
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No, it's not like that anymore.
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The good news is everything can be done online,
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and you can start through our website at alliancehtx.org.
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We do have an application portal called Red Cafe.
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You can go in right now, set up your profile with everybody
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who's going to be in your household so that when that wait list opens on Monday,
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all you have to do is log back in and apply for the properties that you want to apply for.
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And you can have up to three choices.
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OK, and so, say for instance, you have a child who may be going to the military
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or a senior in your house who may be going off to college.
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How does that work if your housing dynamic is going to change in the future?
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Well, once you get on that wait list, you can go ahead and make any changes
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that you need to to your household through the Red Cafe portal.
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It's your own personal access to make those types of changes,
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even before you actually get approved into the apartment complex.
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Once you're in the property, of course, everything can be handled through your leasing office.
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that you can make those kind of changes to.
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OK, so we got the Red Cafe portal.
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Is it difficult to navigate?
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Do you have some folks who can help people if they feel overwhelmed?
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I myself have assisted people here in our own lobby setting up their Red Cafe.
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if you have all your information together, an available takes less than five minutes.
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But if you're just not computer savvy, which not everyone is,
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it's a new day and age and with our seniors and things like that,
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we do have people here housing aligns that are going to be available to assist.
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OK, now tell me this, once it opens up and people are able to go into a plot,
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what's the next step of life?
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How long will it be open?
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And then when will people get callbacks or to let them know whether they've been accepted or rejected?
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OK, so the wait list is going to be open from June 22nd into July 6th.
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Now, we are doing ours as a lottery system.
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So it's going to draw names off of that collective pool of applicants.
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is going to notify you by email whether you're selected or not selected.
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OK, and then if you're selected, it will also give you the information
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about what your next steps are going to be,
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and just to wait until you're contacted by the individual property.
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So by the end of July, whether you apply or not or gets selected or not, you will know.
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OK, how do we make sure that we can see this email and it doesn't go to spam?
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Because the last thing I want to happen is somebody say,
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I didn't even know it went in my spam folder.
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I didn't see it, so I didn't respond.
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I didn't know what was going on.
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When you set up your Red Cafe account, it's going to send you an email.
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So at that point, you do want to make sure that your email of inbox acknowledges
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that this is a trusted email so that it goes into your inbox and not your spam.
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And that's something we can do either if you're here sitting across from you,
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we can make sure that I understand that that is a trusted email.
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Because every little change you do is going to send you an email.
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So we can always make sure if you don't see it for the first registration,
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we can make sure that change is necessary.
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So it's going into your inbox.
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Okay, you said you've sat with people, where you at?
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Because somebody might need to contact you.
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I'm at housing alliance HTX, we're located right here at 2640 Fountain View.
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Okay, and so do people need an appointment to come in,
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talk to me about how they get those additional services.
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If they're a computer insecure, if they don't have internet services,
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if they just feel a little overwhelmed,
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or they don't have the mental capacity to fill that out by themselves.
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Our lobby is open from 8 to 6.
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So there is always somebody available to go ahead and help in this issue
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with getting in rent cafe.
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We have their train, their knowledgeable, they can answer any questions.
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I will be here.
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I hope some people come in and ask for me.
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Come talk to me.
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I'm here.
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I can answer any questions that you have about different properties,
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the weightless management, but there will be somebody here
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at housing alliance to assist you.
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I'm so glad you said that because a lot of times people feel overwhelmed
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and they feel like they don't have anybody that they can connect with.
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They feel like they have to do it by themselves.
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And a lot of times they'll reach out to family and friends
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who don't know how to do it either.
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Then everybody's sitting up there messing up.
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And so if you had to talk to somebody about getting ready to fill out this application,
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what do they need?
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I want to make sure that they are ready and prepared and not frustrated.
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You may have to come back to an application once or twice, but not five, six,
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fifty, eleven times.
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The main thing you need to have is everyone's data birth and social security number.
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Make sure you know exactly who you want to be enlisted in that household
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when you complete the application because the number of people on your application
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determines the number of bedrooms that you can qualify for.
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So if you know you're going to have five people in your household,
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please don't just put your name because it's going to limit your choices.
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Let's make sure we have all of our information together and ready.
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And then the process just moves a whole lot smoother and an estimation of your annual income.
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Go ahead.
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The annual income isn't something that we verify just at this moment
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because it's going to be verified once you get to the property,
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but it is a question that is going to be asked.
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So that's just something that people need to be aware of.
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Now, what are you hearing from people when they come in?
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What's the thing that's most challenging for them about feeling out the application?
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The most thing I'm hearing right now is not so much the application itself.
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It's just the question of the difference between the programs.
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Knowing the difference between public housing, section eight,
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which is the voucher program and some of the others.
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It's more of an education about what to expect from the wait list.
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If you're coming looking for a voucher, this is not the wait list for that.
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This is for moving into one of our dedicated owned properties that are professionally managed.
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The housing choice voucher wait list unfortunately has remained closed
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and is not expected to open right now.
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But this is if you are looking to move into one of our properties of public housing,
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this is the wait list you want to be on.
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OK.
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Now, give me that website again so that people can go get this information.
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It's alliance HTX dot org.
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Well, I can't thank you enough for helping me get this information out here.
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Again, I was a project here grew up in Kelly Village.
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And I don't think that I would be the woman of God that I am today had.
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I not had those strong female role models and that village there helping not only my mother,
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but helping me and my siblings.
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And we are all blessed today because of the time we spent there.
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So thank you for the time you spent with me, Ms. Daveta Thomas.
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Yes, ma'am. And working in this industry for over 20 years,
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I've really seen that the apartment complexes really do build community.
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And unfortunately, the stigma of them is sometimes not always the best,
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but we always must remember that our main goal is to provide housing to people who need housing,
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need dedicated housing that may be having some issues.
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And we want to make sure all of Houston knows that they have an opportunity right now
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to get on this wait list.
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And again, this is a stepping stone. It's not a staying stone.
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You know, storms don't come to stay. They come to pay us.
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And this may be a season in your life where you need some housing.
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You need some additional assistance.
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You know, I look at the statistics and 300,000 Black women have been forced from
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the workforce.
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And so the women that I know their income has changed dramatically.
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It's been decreased from five, six figure salaries to zero.
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And they've been looking for jobs for two or three years.
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And so this may be an opportunity for a stop gap measure for you and your family,
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while you're looking for housing.
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If you lost your property, if you are getting put out, if you are in transitional housing or living
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with a relative or a friend, this may be for you.
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And you know, Ms. Daveta Thomas, as well as I do, that Black women don't want to tell nobody they be.
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You know, they don't want to say they're doing bad.
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We don't want to talk about it.
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And I had a girlfriend recently that confided in me.
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She had been living in her car.
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Yeah.
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And there's resources out there.
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I mean, our wait list is just one of many options.
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And housing alliance, yes, we provide housing,
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but we also have connections to other services.
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So please, if anybody is in need of assistance, we're here always to assist.
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And I want you to remember, if you're walking, driving, doing laundry, you got your earbuds in,
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you can't get to a pen and a paper.
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You don't want to miss this information.
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You want to share it with your friends and family.
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We have the information in our show notes.
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If you just go back to wherever you're listening to this podcast on your smart tablet or
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mobile device right there in the show notes with Ms. Daveta Thomas's name and my name.
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This is going to be links.
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This is going to be addresses.
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This is going to be phone numbers.
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You can click on that.
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You can share the link and just make sure that your girlfriend
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ain't sitting up here sleeping in the car.
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That your family members who are in transition because, you know, the woman, the,
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the single mother, the divorce mother has lost her job and she still got two or three kids to raise.
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This may be the blessing that they've been praying for.
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Share this information with them.
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Use it if you need it.
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Take it to your church.
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Put it in the bulletin.
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Make sure the folks in your network and community know about it.
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Ms. Daveta Thomas, thank you so much for being here.
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Thank you.
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I really appreciate you for helping us get this word out.
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We really want to make sure we get a really good turnout for this wait list opening.
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Amen.
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Amen.
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Well, we appreciate you and I appreciate y'all for listening.
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Now listen, y'all know how we do.
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You know somebody.
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[Music]
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We talk a lot about meeting people where they're at.
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And
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that's always had meaning to me, but earlier this year that really took a new shape.
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I really value the fact that we have a space where people can come in
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and to receive these services.
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But not out all people feel safe anymore.
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Coming out, going places.
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And just re-looking at what does it truly mean to meet people where they're at.
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And how do we effectively do that?
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Has been a really big part of what this year's looked like for us.
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Sometimes we believe those lines that we are no good.
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That maybe you know this is all there is.
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And when I got sober I realized no there's something more fighting for it.
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And I'm out here every day fighting for it for myself.
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For the women in my community, for my love.
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But this way-make is a big part of that.
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So I'm just grateful.
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I'm so grateful.
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And I couldn't have done it without being sober of course.
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And you know, having the good support.
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Because nobody can do it alone.
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Community means showing up for one another.
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For me and I think for our community, because many across the United Health Group will talk
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similarly about the support that we felt.
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I think it underscores to us the profound need and the profound importance of what it feels like
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when your community supports you.
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So it's with that that the United Health Care Foundation is very proud to announce
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$1 million of support for our community partners, the Washburn Center,
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Catholic Community Foundation in Minnesota, which includes the
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annunciation, hope and healing fund, the Greater Minneapolis Crisis Nursery and Minneapolis
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foundations.
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Was your house built before 1978?
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Then it may contain lead.
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And no level of lead in the home is safe.
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Especially for children.
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It can cause developmental delays, learning difficulties, irritability and a loss of appetite.
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But our hope is not lost.
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Thanks to your program in Hempkin County, you can protect your family by removing the
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sources of lead from your home.
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They have free home tests and up to $15,000 in grant money to do the work, including windows.
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To get the details, just go to HealthyHomes.Henipin.us.
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That's HealthyHomes.Henipin.us.
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[Music]
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National voter registration day is coming up on September 15,
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and Hempkin County elections is hosting a voter registration drive to celebrate.
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You can check your registration and get registered on the Skyway level of the Hempkin
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County Government Center at 300 South Sixth Street, Minneapolis.
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You can check polling places, get sample ballots and make sure you're prepared to vote and no vote.
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Not able to make it to the event? No problem.
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You can also check online at www.mmvotes.gov/presister
