Twice in the past three years heee at Mopuntain View I have been subject to Domestic Violence.
I had applied and been approved for two bedroom accomodation and I rang Housing when numner 16 became available and was told I would be assessed for that unit.
The next day I was called by the same member of Housing Bundaberg to ask me who I would be putting on the lease. I was confused as I had been approved for 2 bedrooms, no one else.
I had waited months for the transfer and because of the setup and lack of privacy of my current unit I could not hire a carer for over night stays. So I decided to wait until a unit came available so I had the extra room for a hired carer to stay.
I said that to the woman from Housing. She snapped at me and sdated that there had to be someone else on the lease. My youngest daughter was visiting so I just said her name as she would be able to help me.
The housing worker asked me how old she was i said 19 and the worker said no she is too young she cannot be at the complex, her boyfriend was 42 so I said his name and once again the housing worker replied that he was too young.
I said well David in number 6 is 46 and Bryce in number 6 is 30 she answered “they are not supposed to be there”
I said cant I wait until I get a unit first and then hire someone. i cant if I do not have the accommodation suffient with private space.
She answered no I need someone on the lease.
I was puzzled and confused.
I Could not get a unit until I put my carer on the lease and I could not get a carer unless I had that lease signed and guaranteed. I felt frustrated and setup by housing. I was given an impossible task and setup to fail.
The Department of Housing it playing a double game, They have stated that I could not have a younger person here at the complex as my carer, leaving me to find a carer that is restricted to age 55 and above which is impossible as they need to lift me.
It is also illegal because this is not a designated retirement complex. If it was still designated aged care like the signs to the units and google maps states, Housing would be bound by the retire
a week later Richard Steel moved in. He needed a washing machine and drier so I gave him mine as i share a lundry with them in it.
He said to me oh man i landed on my feet. I didn’t even apply for housing. Our caravan park closed and they came and gave us all housing Me and gordo were goin to get a place together up north yeppoon way but when Housing came in we went stuff that when we heard how cheap. They said to me we have this two bedoom at Biggenden do you want that. I didnt know where Biggenden was and they told me so I said yeah.
When Richard told me that, my chest got tight and I went dizzy, I FELT SO BETRAYED BY HOUSING BUNDABERG. That was my chance to get a carer and help gone in an instant of bias.
Not long after I stopped in at Maryborough housing and talked to Sue.When I told her what happened.she told me that it was wrong adivce to me from Housing Bundaberg and she could not understand it. If I had been approved for medical reasons then there was only me needed on the lease.. she said “We do that all the time” I had a spell of illusion weaved by Housing Bundaberg who had lied and decieved me then thrown it in my face by leasing the unit to a single guy who had not applied for the Biggenden Area.
I have never picked up from that, it was the start of a horror time. I became deeply depressed. I was shut inside my unit and unable to get a carer. I put on weight and got sicker and sicker.
While I was in hospital I lost use of my legs, I had seizures for the first time in my life and yet this was denied to me, I lost control of my bladder and bowel and I lost the ability to speak clearly.
My family were worried about me but I was isolated in Bundaberg. Shortly after my friend Eve called me to tell me she was coming to see me. She grabbed me and put me in her car and drove me home ot my place.
I lay there at home for week befoe i could walk and talk again. I could barely move and each time I did move I would damamge my back again and be unable to move for weeks.
My daughter ended up coming out to care for me as I could not get out of bed to go to the toilet most nights. Earlier in 2022 I had been in Bundaberg hospital for a month with severe spinal issues. I have foreminal Stenosis in C6/7 and L5/6 and my IGE issues cause muscular skeletel issues such as tears and sprains of ligaments cartliage and muscle. This causes a depletion of electrolytes and other required minerals.
I was unable to move and the unit was so tiny and cramped with two people and her boyfriend would stay too. I was powerless, a shell of myself without the accommodation to help my etreme needs. The betrayal by housing was thrown in my face each time I would be in my room and someone would come in and switch lights on to use the toilet.
It got me more depressed. My daughters boyfriend self harmed in the most violent ways. He like to do it in front of me because he knew that my soul was of a nature’s child. He would look me in the eye and smash his head into the door next to me, leaving his head intent and torn panel. He would crush a glass in his hand then flick the pieces, which were covered in blood all over the room and ceiling. blood! that is all I saw everyhwere I looked and when I shut my eyes I would see him harming to get my reaction. he would scream, kick my animals drag me out of bed late at night and force me to drive him to the bay. He tried to tear the steeering wheel out of my dughters handds on a bend, he held a kife on me as I was driving and he ordered me to take him to my older childrens home so he could “run through the house and bash them” I ended up escaping from the car in front of Hervey bay police station and ran inside.
I was placed in a refuge as he and my daughter were now threatening to kill me. I was desperate to have my carpet to be taken out as well please as the constant wet carpet from the contrator leaving the tap pipe open, and the leaking roof, my dog had been left in the house for three days while I was in the refuge. I couldnt have anyone come to the house and I should not have been left in the house and to this day I cant have anyone in that back room as it is a biological hazrd. I contacted Housing and asked for help. I told them at this time and many others that I needed help to get my ndis filled out and i needed help as I was in such a bad psychological asnd physical state i couldnt walk in the front room and I still to this day get flashbacks of the blood and the violence and the horror I suffered.
Housing said they would get the walls cleaned and holes filled asnd carpet cleaned. I begged them to rip the horror carpet up that i had been dragged over many times when i was being dragged out of bed in the middle of the middle to drive them somewhere. I said the carpet was a bio hazard and needed to go
Housing said no and they would get it cleaned. I said it couldnt be cleaned it was contaminated with human blood matter and dog faces and it was a health hazard. This was refused
Housing conrtractor came and replaced the smashed planels and he said he was contracted to clean the carpet.
Instead of hiring a professional steam cleaner to do my carpoet properly, to save money he went to foodworks and hired a britex cheap carpet cleaner and tried to clean the carpet. THIS .. this is standard for housing .. contractors skimming to get jobs done cheap. See The Attack of The Mower Men
After the dodgy brothers carpet clean, It was still filthy ands wet ands soon as he left all the ugy came up from underneath. It has gotten worse since that time and I have begged housing to remove it but they have said no.
The unit had been left swimming in water in Jan/Feb 2022 after the front room flooded and left my items damaged while i was in hospital. They took my outside tap off the fron of out unit in the middle and told me I would have to share Daves. *footnote
Chris is an venegful neighbour after I spoke to him about my missing underwear and wanting to massage me all the time. I am watched when I am in my garden thriugh thr curtains, I can see his shadow and it scares me i come inside. I have told housing this. I ws ignored.
So housing put the cement block out the front with the stupid slope on it that stops water running away and actually leaves it pooled in the middle. Another cntractor told me he wanted to put a drain in but housing did it this stupid way.
A few weeks later Dave next door and I were walking out the back to inches of water from out back doors. When we would walk in our unit we would feel like we were swimming. and the walls bagen new cracks and the doors stopped locking. Housingf eventually came and found out that the tap they had cut off of mine was still switched on and it had been running for weeks under our unit.
By this time my floor was sopping wet and cracks grew daily in the walls, the laundry began to separate fromthe building and the doors to laundry would no longer close. That was the start of our “drains issue” from then till now we have had to get plumber here for units 3 and 4 multiple times for the same issues. Our units would stink of sewerage and our toilet wouldnt flush and blocked up and spilled over many many many times.
Since that time we have had to get the locks readjusted every six months or so as the unit moves so much they no longer lock. The laundry bricks have all split apart and Glen at the time told me that the building is falling away from the laundry.
Housing was fully aware of the compliance issues of units 3 and 4 at that time. See the video below.