00:00I'm Jackie, Jackie Kennedy. Due to my ill health and disabilities, I gave up a lovely
00:11house on GP calling me with Blue Ribbon Court, arranging the appointment for me to come in
00:17and view the following day, which I did with a friend. She'd come round the property with
00:25me, one of the managers in the property here. I moved in when it was all occupied. It was,
00:31you know, NHS staff coming and going, ambulance crews taking patients in and out. On the September
00:38when I got the tenancy, obviously the flat I wanted decorated because it needed tidying,
00:44so I had to pay a decorator to decorate it for me before I moved in. So, I initially
00:50moved in on the January of 23. All the residents were out here in the garden, we'd sit on
01:00the landings chatting, and then talks of things happening with the building, and then the
01:08charges always being made, a £50 a week, where the other tenants weren't being charged
01:13that. They were telling me, why are you paying that £50? When all the other tenants were
01:19telling me they weren't. And then in September of 2023, we were all given the Section 21 notices.
01:28It was chaos. It was, you know, patients were still obviously going to and from hospitals,
01:35with the ambulance crews, you know, parents or families visiting the residents. It was,
01:40it was nearly full. It was, it was very busy, very busy place, the canteen, the lounge,
01:46the TV room, people sitting on the landings in the evening, we were chatting. And then
01:53meetings happening in the lounge just over here with the council, individual people having
01:58different meetings because of different needs. And then from there, it was just, tenants
02:06were being taken in and out with the two managers in the cars, and then I'd ask them when they
02:13come back, oh, where did you, oh, I've just been to view this, this building, or I've
02:17just been to view that. And I'm thinking, oh, my turn will come. Never ever did. Never.
02:23I've never been taken by anyone to view any properties, not one. And I've, I've located
02:29so many empty properties in the area that I've grew up in, in CB6. Since then, I was
02:34born in Coventry, always lived in CB6. And I'm just, I don't know how I'm coping, I don't
02:41know how I'm still holding it. I'm, you know, I'm very on edge, suicidal, and it's like
02:49an empty prison. I feel like I'm a criminal. And I've got multiple disabilities, very severe
02:55and chronic. I'm on multiple opioids, I'm on a cocktail of medications. And these, these
03:02guys, Green Square, they've just no empathy, and they've been turning the lifts off, so
03:07that I can't access getting up and down in the building. Ambulance crews have reported
03:14this when I've had them out to attend to me, that they've reported that this is a safety
03:19issue, that if people needed to get to you in an emergency, or if you had to get out,
03:23you know, things, that this was all happening. And still to this day, there's no help. There's
03:29no, you know, here's this property, or we'll take, there's been none of that. No viewings
03:34at all. And I don't know why I've done nothing, absolutely nothing wrong, but made the worst
03:39decision in moving here. I wish I didn't make the move, because I was told by my solicitor
03:47and other residents that this place is closing down. It was in the grapevine, apparently,
03:54that so they, they knew this place was shutting down. And yet they, they took me, they let
04:00me move in here knowing that I'd one day be evicted, and that I had a lovely one-bedroom
04:06house that then they shouldn't have took me on, they shouldn't have let me move in. To
04:12leave me here alone, it's cruel, it's absolutely cruel. It's lonely, I'm isolated, and it's
04:21frightening.
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