PUBLIC TESTIMONY
Testimony by Tanya from Ecuador on Shelter Conditions and Evictions
3:19:27
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3 min
Tanya, an undocumented woman from Ecuador, shared her difficult experiences with shelter conditions and frequent moves. She described the stress and health impacts on herself and her children due to unstable living conditions and the eviction policy.
- Tanya reported safety concerns in shared bathrooms, leading to a hospital visit due to high blood pressure
- Her 11-year-old child developed gastritis due to the stressful living situation
- Frequent moves caused her children to be consistently late for school
- She emphasized the need for a permanent place to stay until obtaining proper documentation
Tanya (via Spanish Interpreter)
3:19:27
Good afternoon.
3:19:30
My name is Tanya, and I'm from Ecotour.
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Part of the group of undocumented women.
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I mean, this subject of eviction of the moving, I have experimented, experienced.
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I have experienced situations in which I wasn't able to sleep and also using the bathrooms.
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Because there is private bathrooms and there is also private style bathrooms that you have to share.
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So in one of the shelters, they had an experience, a bad experience with the man who was knocking the door very aggressively, wanting me to come out when there was other 4 other bathrooms that could be used.
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There were 5 bathrooms bathrooms in total.
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Because of this incident, I had to go to the hospital with my blood pressure of 200.
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I have 2 children.
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1 is 11 and another another is 4.
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And the one who is 11 became sick with gastritis because of the situation.
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Because of, the issue of the addictions, we live in constant, stress and worry.
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The children are always late to school every day because we're moving around.
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We all sleep in the same bed with the children.
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It's very complicated to move around with those suitcases and all the baggages and where we have to go to 45th Street.
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If we had a permanent place until we get the documents, we would have a better quality of life for the children.
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Emotional stability as well as us.
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And that's all.
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That's everything.
