Evicted in the middle of winter please help
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Hi my name is Elijah I live with my disabled mom (she has fibromyalgia, nerve damage, and hyperosmolar hyperglycemia (a fatal form of diabetes) and my younger sibling who's in middle school. The reason why I'm fundraising is because we've recently been told that we are being evicted due to us not paying rent. Beginning in 2021 my grandmother who lived with us for 11 years and use to split the rent with my mom caught covid in June and slowly started to deteriorate due to the symptoms of covid. Her blood sugar spiked to 900, heart failure, kidney failure, 2 weeks in a coma and blindness. The nursing staff not properly taking care of her which led to us having to put her into hospice in which she later died in October. From that point on we have been adjusting to not having her around anymore. In 2023 I lost my job and then two days later my grandfather, who was a father figure to me and my sibling, passed away the same month as my grandmother. And since November to now 10 family members have passed away 6 of which were in November alone, ages ranging from 17-66.
The place we're being evicted from is not safe to live in. The house is coming off of its foundation, whenever we get a light rain or accidently leave the hose on, our basement starts to flood. The wood around the window frames outside are rotting away, the stairs in both the front and back of the house are breaking away from the building. The kitchen sink leaks, which damaged the cabinet were the pipes for the sink are. There's a small gas leak. The storm windows in the living room and my room have never fit and rattle everytime the wind blows. These are just a few things wrong with place.
We have told the the landlord and the management company, to which our requests for repairs and maintenance were ignored, for years. After receiving a 7 day notice to evict, my mom called the maintenance company and told them that we were dealing with a lot of loss in our family and that I recently got a new job but I wouldn't start working until mid February. The response from the property manager, "The last time you got help but this time were not going to wait. We're going ahead with the eviction. So take your money and move." We've tried asking several local organizations for assistance and were told we were not eligible, we were outside of there jurisdiction, they have no funds, they weren't accepting new applicants, or they didn't have any homes available. So now I ask, if you have the means to do so, please donate so that we can afford to get a new safe home and for moving fees. Thank you and be blessed.
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Elijah Nunn
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Omaha, NE