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Have you heard about the battle of understanding dependent adult and disabled designations and mandated reporting abuse at VA hospitals?

Lets start with a premise! Federal Fair Housing laws. Are disabled adult veterans protected by this?

Something the VA may want to know in the federal law about housing and disability. There is MST Military Sexual Trauma and liaisons and support and a whole command for victims processing called SAPR. But out here in the other world what may be a new term to coin is CST Civilian Sexual Trauma and the reporting of it, similar to and the protection of similar to MST.
HOUSING DISCRIMINATION UNDER THE FAIR HOUSING ACT

HOUSING DISCRIMINATION IS ILLEGAL IN NEARLY ALL HOUSING, INCLUDING PRIVATE HOUSING, PUBLIC HOUSING, AND HOUSING THAT RECEIVES FEDERAL FUNDING.
Harassment:
The Fair Housing Act makes it illegal to harass persons because of race, color, religion, sex, disability, familial status, or national origin. Among other things, this forbids sexual harassment. Learn more about sexual harassment here.

So in the battle for sanity I had to fight to understand things unknown and foreign to me. The only thing I knew was when I was 18 I was taught in bootcamp to follow orders no matter how dangerous and with no regard to my future honorably etc etc etc. I did. I ended up in the streets unable to keep a job, and as a result vulnerable to all sorts of abuse in housing to try to stay off the streets bartering what I could like labor rent trade barter. I was in the VA system at this time. I was denied VA benefits of a veteran like homeless housing voucher because the only thing they could find wrong with my paper work was that I was a reservist. I was not a navy guy. I was a reservists who over 8 years did not do enough. active duty on the guided missile frigate which again doesn’t make any sense.

But, back to the subject. I was already on SSDi for psych with 900 a month to my name. I was giving half to this guy who was housing me. Who was this guy? He was a older Navy Vet himself Vietnam Era who liked men. I found out just how much. Someone recently tallied 22 different separate notes in my VA patient records of me to different doctors that I was complaining of sexual abuse, sexual exploitation, drugging.

I was not in a wheel chair.

The guy would drive me to the VA sometime.

I had a bad back. I was under considerable stress at 38 not sure what life was really about any longer.

He had a house. He was well to do in a way.

He was lonely. I depended on him for housing. I had a history of doing rent trade barter in the last 10 something years to stay off the streets.

He was the last 1. The other 2 did not involve touching.

Regardless there are state and federal designations of disability and compensation as a result. There is no federal or state designation for compensation for a Dependent Adult. Dependnet adult in the definition references disability.

Disability seems to be a predessor of which dependent adult is built.

How could you be a dependent adult without a disability?

How could you be a disabled adult dependent on the federal government for subsidy payments to eat, etc, and not be considered a dependent adult?

There is some idea that you must be in-firmed in a convalescent home or otherwise completely unable to move, fed with a feeding tube, nurses on each side to be considered a dependent adult.

Infact this PHD psych doctor from my Medicare discussed his idea of a dependent adult who would require a mandated reporting of sexual abuse from a landlord. In his review he said that if the person was unable to drive in a wheel chair unable to buy their own coffee then he would be triggered to report sexual abuse on this person by a landlord if he became aware.

I told him I know a few severely disabled people in wheelchairs with cars that are outfitted for driving themselves and as a result buy their own coffee.

I asked if this person was your patient reporting confused thoughts about their landlord touching them in various ways, would you not feel obligated to make a report to APS?

I asked him what if you have a very confused veteran in his 30’s with history of TBI, who can otherwise walk around, otherwise looks normal for the most part, and buy his own coffee, who is single and isolated, in a rent trade barter with a landlord just to stay off the streets, who does not know the law and his own rights against sexual harassment and assaults against disabled adults from landlord? Would you not make report to APS?

A mandated reporting would trigger some kind of welfare check hopefully that would hopefully question the landlord to the nature of the relationship and living conditions and disability and income and chance of extortion and thing likes abuse etc etc.

If a family member can abuse their own family member sexually and it is reportable crime.

If a military supervisor can abuse their own junior service members and it is a reportable crime.

If domestic violence is a reportable crime.

A landlord tenant situation is prime issue with power play dynamics that can be used to exploit.


Abuse and exploitation, These are listed as federal crimes in federal fair housing laws against disabled and not disabled. There is no reference to dependent adult. All humans are protected.

Then why can not a veteran get the support when he is being taken advantage of in a landlord tenant situation?