As a victim of Project Homekey, aka Project Roomkey, I am asking the public to inquire into these numbers, I am asking humbly you not to look away.
I am the wife of a man dying of liver cancer, diagnosed Sept 16, 2019 by UCSF’S Liver Transplant Unit.
That’s where our life was when the pandemic started. Rearranging our life for a liver transplant with me a living donor. We both get SSI and he has retirement SS. He is 68 and I am 59. We lived in an RV in a tiny county campground in the Delta, no water no electric, but only $15 a night. We had just paid a full week the day before the Park Rangers arrived. No refund. Still have receipt.
We were forced homeless by Governor Newsom’s rash order to close all the campgrounds March 18, 2020. Our RV suffered a fuel pump failure. Absolutely no allowance was made. No help offered. Instead, the county worker WITHOUT EVEN MEETING ME OR TALKING TO ME, made a report to Adult Protective Services. We were also told the courts were closed. We were put in a motel for nearly 100 days but our beloved home on wheels is still in that campground, or it was, last word. I have had to fight tooth and nail for every motel voucher.
No food was given until we moved into the CalExpo FEMA Trailer campus. Repeatedly I asked, but was told no. We had to eat what we could have delivered or bought in a convenience store.
This camp is one of the scarest places I’ve seen at night. Yes, security drives around, but yesterday (July 2, 2020) the nurse told us someone was breaking into trailers thru the laundry chutes and I should put something heavy on mine.
The food is unbelievably bad. Every single day, instant oatmeal. One sugar pack. ONE. That’s disgusting.
The trailers are full of ants, spiders and wasps are building nests underneath.
No gas to stoves, so no kitchen. Electricity cuts off if you use a hot plate. You have to ask repeatedly for toilet paper.
No cleaning supplies. Not even a broom.
No PPE.
Only one change of linens, so what do I put on a sick man’s bed while their precious laundry service takes three to five days?
I am used to having my own home. I want out of this place. I am going to get out of here. I don’t know where, or how, or with what, but before I go, I am going to show the world what “Project Roomkey” now called “Project Homekey” looks like from the inside.
a SURVIVOR show, FEMA-Sacramento edition 