An appeal to NMHC

Mrs. Aguon and I, Milan Fargo are elderly disabled, literally homeless persons. Currently, we are housed by the CNMI CCERA Office until Oct. 9, 2024. As low-income individuals, we need Northern Marianas Housing Corp. to pay the rent after the deadline.

Since May 13, NMHC has our request but did nothing to house us within the Section 8 provisions. We waited four months!

On Sept. 9, we had to ask for rapid housing under the Homeless Emergency Assistance and Rapid Transition to Housing Act. Only nine days left until we find ourselves on the streets again but NMHC is not willing to do what U.S. housing regulations demand.

For years and years of asking, Mrs. Aguon was never given a roof taking into account her individual circumstances. I, Milan Fargo, was rapidly housed from January 2018 to October 2019 and under the act, NMHC was, during this period, took care of housing me permanently.

It is what the law says. NMHC did nothing, violated the act, made me from Oct. 4, 2019 to Aug. 9, 2023, exist on the streets. For 46 months, during COVID times, NMHC made me exist on th estreets violating the President’s order that during the COVID disaster, no human should be left without a roof over their heads!

Now, NMHC looks like it’s willing to repeat and disobey the law again: they avoid any response by email or by sending official notification to my PO box. They want to see me—a PhD in economics, the father of Minimicroeconomics, its by-product Business Accuracy Business, and its tools—on the streets again. They treat me worse than a dog! Their eyes are blind to housing a person who created something of national importance by taking our nation to new heights of prosperity.

We, the disabled elderly, cannot stand alone to blatant inactions from NMHC’s side.

Mrs. Aguon and Fargo Milan

Via email

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