Senior resident in Las Vegas sees no change after ‘medically necessary’ request

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LAS VEGAS (KLAS) – 102-year-old Gloria Lewis is a veteran who has lived at Los Pecos Senior Flats for 4 years now. She advised 8 Information Now she feels hopeless and caught.

She supplied the advanced with a health care provider’s word months in the past, citing it’s “medically necessary for her to move into a first-floor accommodation.” She has a pacemaker and lives alone.

“All I want is to have peace and to get an apartment on a lower floor,” mentioned Lewis.

Lewis claims she has made numerous makes an attempt to replace her residing state of affairs, together with attending an April city corridor and talking to administration in particular person a number of occasions. The most recent try she made to settle the leasing points was Friday, the place she advised 8 Information Now she stopped by the workplace in particular person once more. Nevertheless, regardless of her quite a few makes an attempt, no change. 

“They haven’t even offered me anything,” she mentioned. “It’s just frustrating.”

She claims that in Could, administration supplied her a lease renewal, however it was for her similar third-floor house and with a hire enhance.

In a letter obtained by 8 Information Now, an emergency contact for Lewis wrote to administration, “I knowledgeable (supervisor) that Ms. Gloria wouldn’t be signing a brand new lease enhance of her hire for an affordable lodging Gloria, and myself believed that it was towards the regulation.”

In response to the Truthful Housing Act, housing suppliers should make a change or adjustment to a coverage or observe, if vital, for an individual with a incapacity, defining incapacity as somebody with a bodily or psychological impairment that considerably limits a number of main life actions.

“I’m 102 years old. I’m not a baby,” she mentioned. “I can’t wait until tomorrow-land. Every day is a gift for me!”

8 Information Now emailed the corporate’s regional supervisor and stopped by their property’s workplace in particular person to ask about Ms. Lewis’s request. Each occasions, we had been knowledgeable they’d not remark and guided to e mail the father or mother firm, Cirrus Asset Administration Inc., primarily based out of California. 

We’re nonetheless awaiting a response from Cirrus Asset Administration Inc.

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