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EMERGENCY FUNDING FOR A GRIEVING BLACK FAMILY

Cashapp: $AaronElijah7 $ TheKidRenyy
*PREVIOUS DONATIONS WENT TO MY GRANDMA’s FUNERAL*

In March, due to abuse and harassment, my gf and I were forced to vacate our apartment, with our dog. We’re in debt, grieving, homeless and recovering from abusive family situations. We don’t have money for food or rent, jobs are not coming in, and we can’t get stamps. We are under reckless and unsafe conditions for covid.


Our previous landlord, Terry, belittled and never resolved our residential issues. She let an upstairs neighbor harass our home, even after calling cops multiple times. When we called they came hours late or not at all, and didn’t take our report. The family upstairs persistently stomped, banged and screamed, all hours of the day. I went upstairs and they’d act like no one was home. They caused a bad leak my first night there. It ran from our hallway, bathroom, and vent. It damaged our bathroom property, hallway carpet, and left a big big tear in our ceiling (all never fixed or compensated). I told my landlord not only about these issues but how they escalated—the banging and screaming vibrated my ceiling, headed to work one neighbor shouted he would kick my roommate’s teeth in, someone busted my window, tried to break into my lock (left lock completely hanging), left dog poop at our door and on the door... there was no peace living here. We have proof of this (photos & videos). My landlord said she would open up a case and do something about it. Except when I finally got ahold of her, she said these weren’t issues the office is responsible for. I asked what can happen to resolve my problem with the family upstairs, and she said, “it’s none of your concern.” The harassment, busted window, and tampered lock is a safety concern. The lock and window were fixed after moving out (unfixed for 3 months), nothing else was. Three different times my landlord tried to schedule to fix the window without telling me. One morning she called, very rude, saying she didn’t know why I’d lock my own room and I need to leave my door unlocked. If I knew she was coming I would have but I don’t have to validate keeping my room safe.

We lived with a nasty, disrespectful, non-Covid safe roommate. We came home to random people in our space literally everyday. She snuck people in, and someone random was locked in my bathroom, at 3am, while we were asleep. Me and my girlfriend’s privacy was obsolete, and our personal relationship with each other was being invaded, on a day to day basis. We got fed up and signed a notice to vacate. I told our roommate we were leaving, and moved out about a week later. Then, a couple days later, she said she was leaving. Later, it was time to pay our rent and she didn’t respond to calls or texts. Our is bill now over $3000, and we have until June 8th.

Since vacating, we have been homeless, rarely able to get food, and unable to rely on any family. My grandma, who raised me, passed in May. During her last days, in the hospital, we were forced out of family homes, homes family members said we could stay at. We were both on the last year of our bachelor’s but the stress overwhelmed my girlfriend mentally enough to cost her her last semester. I barely finished this spring, and only did with the help and strength of her. Before my grandma passed I told her how stressed I was, she said she knew I’d finish. Between traveling to visit her, and school, I saw her up til I went back for finals. I never got to tell her I finished. Making her arrangements was the single hardest thing I did. We hoped family would finally accept we needed help, it was short lived.

The first experience was after we moved out, and needed a place to store tubs. We’re both struggling to find jobs and needed something while we got on our feet. Family already knew we spent months searching for jobs, and a place to stay. After we loaded everything, including a mattress, we took our cars and went to the family home. The very next day we were woken up and told we couldn’t stay. This is a multi-person home with several empty rooms, only one person is living there. We slept on the pull-out couch, and someone still told us we were taking up too much space. This aunt did not care about us being homeless. She said “I respect your situation but you can’t stay here.” We called other family who lived in the home, before, for support. Contradictory to what we had been told for weeks... they did not support us and we were forced on our feet again. We had to leave my car sitting full, with most of our stuff, and could only take one. We stayed at hotels as long as we could but it’s not realistic.

When my grandma’s funeral came, my gf’s mom said we could stay for a few days so we could go. We went to her funeral first. Then our last days at her mom’s, her mom blew up about saying not to eat the food. We didn’t eat any food. We’re used to her saying we can’t eat there, it wasn’t the first time. She was mad we didn’t beg her to feed us, we made sure we got to eat(bought our own). After she saw us eating, she tried to get controlling, and said she didn’t say don’t eat. She went on to say that we were ungrateful and disrespectful for getting our own food. She stormed in the room, angry, and tried to hit my gf. She got violent and started pointing her fingers really close in our face, saying that she was still her child and she could put her hands on her (we are adults). This escalated extremely quickly because I am docile but very protective. Her mom threatened our lives multiple times and wouldn’t let us pack to leave. I called the cops and they kept us in separate rooms, til we left.  Almost 8 cops came to answer to this call. Lol, no masks just guns, like they do. I never put my hands on anyone, I just kept my gf’s mom away from my gf. As we walked out with our things she yelled she wanted us on the side of the road with our stuff, and no car. She left deep scratches on my gf, and made her arm swell. If I hadn’t been there things could’ve been worse. We’re in an unsafe situation and cannot afford anymore hotels. PLEASE HELP

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Raleigh, NC

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