Here's Robert's statement he read off during the tenets protest:

But beyond all the legal problems, we want the public to understand what this feels like:

When you're disabled or elderly and your home becomes unsafe, it’s more than just a housing issue — it’s a violation of your dignity. It makes you feel invisible. Like your life doesn’t matter. Being forced to live with sewage flooded apartments, broken heaters, and neglected repairs sends a clear message: “You don’t deserve equal rights.” Your rights expire with your age and disability.

And when you speak up — calmly, respectfully, and within the law — and you're met with retaliation instead of help, it leaves you feeling betrayed by the very people who are paid to protect your rights.

It’s humiliating to beg for basic rights like heat, safe plumbing, the right to flush toilet paper and having a voice in your community. It's demoralizing when you're pushed into corners, treated like a nuisance, or labeled “difficult” for asking to be heard. And it’s devastating when you follow every rule, submit every form, go up every chain of command — and no one helps protect your dignity and health that's supposed to.

That silence from people in power isn’t just frustrating — it's a kind of emotional violence. It wears people down. It causes depression, anxiety, and hopelessness. But still we stand up! Because we know that our lives and voices matter. And we will not be silenced!

These actions not only an injustice against a person self-worth but also against tenant rights, but also a misuse of public resources. Taxpayer dollars are meant to ensure safe, accessible, and dignified housing, not to fund retaliation, negligence, union-busting strategies and legal maneuvering against the very residents these programs are meant to serve.