National Legal Aid & Defender Association

http://www.nlada.org/About/About_Home

Meals On Wheels

http://www.mowaa.org

918-627-4103

Oklahoma Disability Law Center

http://home.flash.net/~odlcokc/tulmap.html

Community Action Project

http://www.captc.org

Salvation Army

http://www.salvationarmyusa.org/usn/www_usn.nsf

918-582-7201

YWCA

http://www.ywca.org/site/pp.asp?c=djISI6PIKpG&b=284783

YMCA

http://www.ymca.net

Goodwill

http://www.goodwill.org/page/guest/about

HUD

This was originally posted at another site.  It started off telling you about HUD.  Through HUD you can get cheap houses but also there’s apartment complexes they pay to let poor people live there cheap.  They help pay the rent.  So these apartments are getting their money just like regular apartments…they just don’t use it on fixing up the apartments like regular apartments.

I lived in 2 HUD dumps.  And I didn’t get along with the manager of the 1st one much more then the next.  The fact is the public has a problem with people who live in public housing & who do you think management is?  The public.  Well we’re not all there to screw up repeatedly & screw the whole world over in the process.  I ended up marrying the maintenance man from HUD dump #1.  Then I ended up getting to know the manager &, believe it or not, her & I ended up friends.  She even gave me my deposit back…on a HUD dump.  Not because we were friends…because I’m obsessive/compulsive & probably have one of the cleanest homes in the neighborhood.

I’ve actually lived in apartments since I was 17 & I’m 40 now.  There was 3 short years & some months my only child & I lived with my mom.  There was 3 short years we lived with a husband.  Most of the rest of my child’s 20 years we’ve lived in apts.  Twice it’s been a HUD dump.  There was around 10 years between HUD dump #1 & HUD dump #2.  I’ve never been thrown out.  And unless I’ve personally broken the lease, which has only happened a couple of times since my mom’s died, I’ve always gotten my deposit back.

I never wanted to move to either HUD dump but especially #2.  But it was the better of the 2 alternatives I had.  We moved in pretty quickly to learn they hadn’t even cleaned the place.  I cleaned plus fixed a few things while I was moving in.  But there’s some things I can’t fix…electrical problems, hot water heater problems, furnace problems, plumbing problems & extremely bad leaks.  At least not without supplies, tools & possibly a book for dummies.

Things (furnace/hot water heater/extremely bad leaks) weren’t fixed & if they were fixed it was just temp.  Then they were breaking down again a week or two later.   I think cuz I was in customer service & dealt with a lot of bitching & moaning customers I’m anti-social & avoidant now.  I promise I don’t want to talk to no office people in no office.  I also promise it’s nothing personal.  But when you got major things breaking down every couple of weeks & sometimes for a day or two & sometimes for a week at a time you have no choice but to call or send an email.

Housing Finance Agencies

http://www.ohfa.org
http://www.ohfa.org/OldPages/Special/Homeless1/Shelters/ohfhmsht.html

While these people don’t have projects…they do oversee HUD projects & also have section 8 vouchers.  They also have a program called: Section 8 Homeownership Program.  That’s the one I’m gonna be checking into next.