Another Free Cell Phone options for tenants.(Safelink Wireless)

Everyone seems to be talking about telephone providers providing a service labeled Lifeline -- a public assistance program that ensures telephone service is available and affordable for low-income subscribers. One worth reviewing is SafeLink, because there lifeline support is now available for wireless phones. Traditionally, the Lifeline program was only available as a discount on a consumer’s landline telephone bill. SafeLink Wireless was created by TracFone Wireless, Inc. . SafeLink Wireless applies the Universal Service Fund subsidy to an allotment of free airtime minutes and TracFone provides the wireless handset at the company’s expense. Instead of receiving a subsidized monthly telephone bill for Lifeline service, SafeLink converts the total amount of discounted service into minutes each month for one year. The cell phone offers in-demand features: voicemail, text, three-way calling, call waiting, caller ID and access to 911.

Visit https://www.safelinkwireless.com/ for more details. Share your reviews and comments with other tenants.

Apply For Lifeline Cell Phone Service Now (AssuranceWireless)

How the Lifeline Phone Program Works?

1. 250 FREE Voice Minutes added automatically, you do nothing.
2. Add money if you decide to choose the $5 or $20 offer and to pay for any services not included, like additional minutes, texting or international calls.
3. Buy Virgin Mobile Top-Up cards from thousands of stores across the country. Or use credit, debit or PayPal.

Click here to get the Washington, D.C. application or visit
http://www.assurancewireless.com/Images/PDFFiles/CustomerInfo/DC/English/AW_DC_CERTIFICATION_ENG.pdf

Paul Robeson

Paul Leroy Robeson (April 9, 1898 – January 23, 1976) was an African American concert singer (bass-baritone), recording artist, athlete and actor who became noted for his political radicalism and activism in the civil rights movement. The son of an escaped slave, Robeson was the first major concert star to popularize the performance of Negro spirituals and was the first black actor of the 20th century to portray Shakespeare's Othello alongside an all white cast. (Read more)

2011 Community Emergency Planning Meetings

Notice: Cell Phone Numbers go public later this month

ALL cell phone numbers are being released to telemarketing companies and you will start to receive sales calls.

YOU WILL BE CHARGED FOR THESE CALLS.

To prevent this from happening,
call 888-382-1222 from your cell phone:

It is the National DO NOT CALL telephone number.

Your cell phone number will be added to the list.

It will only take a minute of your time. It blocks your number for five (5) years.

You must call from the cell phone number you want to have blocked. You cannot call from a different phone number.

HELP OTHERS BY PASSING THIS ON.

It takes about 20 seconds.

REMINDER.....

Is there a DC Sanitary Code Checklist?

This is a simple checklist to tell if your apartment is
in decent repair according to District of Columbia law.

Is there a Handbook for Public Housing Grievance Procedures?

Do all tenants of the Lincoln Westmoreland One have a "Handbook for Public Housing Grievance Procedures"? The handbook would outline the state and federal grievance
regulations, and answer questions about how to go through the process.
Please comment if you don't have a copy or you know where others can get a copy.

What is the process for tenants seeking to rent an apartment LW I?

Fill out an application form (for which a fee may be charged). If approved, tenants generally sign a one-year lease, which, upon expiration becomes a month-to-month lease; Tenants must agree to the terms of the lease, provided such terms are reasonable, legal, and not arbitrary. Tenants generally must pay in advance a security deposit (usually one month's rent.)' Security deposits are refundable, with interest, subject to certain conditions, upon vacating the apartment.

Why we formed a tenant association?

Sometimes tenants rights can be enforced through
simple communication with a landlord,
Sometimes individually through social, civil and legal action,
Other times it takes the action of an organized group of
tenants to make their voices heard.

Individually, knowing the law is not always enough to protect the tenant’s rights to decent housing at an affordable price.

Lincoln Westmoreland One tenants organized with each other to use collective political, economic, and social influence to overcome recurring problems.

We organized because we agree that an issue/problem warrant collective actions in order to address and eventually solve that issue or problem.

We basically want to try to work together for a common goal, to make our lives and living situations better.

All humans will agree if there is a problem that a single tenant thinks is serious, others will share that same concern. Some common rental housing issues that warrant working together are:

1. Threat of loss of affordable housing.
2. Shared repairs issues among neighbors.
3. Poor management; bad record-keeping, abusive & retaliatory behavior by management, privacy violations.
4. Emergency repairs: loss of essential services such as running water, hot water, electricity, or sanitary facilities.
5. Loss of heat or inadequate heating.
6. Utility shutoffs due to landlord nonpayment.

Why would you form a tenant association?

March Community Room Events

Welcome Tenants,
Please review the image below for a complete list of the events being held in the community room for the month of March or click here for a PDF version. Please leave your suggestions for future events and activities in the comment sections