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Q&A with Alisha Haddock
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Alisha Haddock is the Senior Vice President and Director of Community and Economic Development at The Housing Fund.
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Two years ago, Metro Nashville’s Office of Homeless Services promised “Carrie” and her partner “Greg” housing. What came instead of stable housing were evictions, lost documents and a return to the woods.
Alisha Haddock is the Senior Vice President and Director of Community and Economic Development at The Housing Fund.
When we reached our final destination, and he went to detach the apparatus from my chair, he was unable to get it off.
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This is my story. My name is Julie B. and I am homeless and have cancer in my brain. I have PTSD and a disability and it is not easy for me. I struggle every day trying to stay alive. My body can not take it for much longer.
As a custom of existing around individuals between the ages of 8 to 88 I realize the way they live is all that they ever known. So, how does one turn off that awful mode? Realistically, survival is the mainstream of living in this dog eat dog world, and it seems like there isn’t any hidden switch. From the highest trusted person to the lowest scum of the earth we all are ran by that switch. There isn’t a person that can’t say that they haven’t been used and or haven’t used someone.
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