Above photo is Mr Santos - who is being harassed by City of Cleveland through the fake CDC SCFBC (Stockyard Clark Fulton Brooklyn Centre) - 400 homes in the eastern portion of Brooklyn Centre received code enforcement letters w/deadline for improvements in May 2015. No one from this fake CDC office has offered to help this senior meet compliance.
He is work disabled since 1989 (chemical induced palsy and diabetes), and his wife is severely disabled-wheel chair-bound. Residents contact me, because they know I can tell their story - I have another disabled senior taking care of her disabled 80+ mother in her home - who has also received this letter and no offer of assistance. I helped Mr. Santos qualify for Homestead - which he was entitled to in 1989 - no one from any CDC ever offered to help Mr. Santos with this simple application. Code enforcement against Mr. Santos is HUD fraud, because this CDC - has no neighborhood residents as voting members of their board. I am contacting HUD today to report how this CDC is promoting a real estate agenda for rich investors and not representing residents of Brooklyn Centre.
A few years back, Brian Cummins was council person for Brooklyn Centre, then part of it was annexed off to Joe Cimperman, and redistricted again, most recently to Anthony Brancatelli. Brian Cummins had been Old Brooklyn CDC director at one time - the Community Development Corporation tasked with providing services to the Old Brooklyn-Brooklyn Centre neighborhoods. [1]
Cummins had a fall out with Kevin Kelley - and broke away from the Old Brooklyn CDC starting his own housing program under Brooklyn Centre Community Association with one staff person Debra Zeleny (this was most likely illegal under federal laws, too). When Cummins was redistricted again, assuming two large neighborhoods previously served by Joe Santiago - he then aligned himself with Matt Zone and they created a sub-CDC under mega-CDC Detroit Shoreway Development Corporation. [2] This CDC has no resident representation - it apparently operates at the behest of developers who have some speculation on the real estate in Brooklyn Centre. Brancatelli took funds he would have allocated to Old Brooklyn Community Development Corp and allocated to this fake CDC - Stockyard, Clark-Fulton, Brooklyn Centre.
Hopefully, Mr. Santos will not face the same tyranny that demo'd Frank Giglio's house. [3] I will update soon.