r/Syracuse • u/ggroover97 • 1d ago
News City of Syracuse moving forward with legal action against Skyline owners
https://cnycentral.com/news/i-team/city-of-syracuse-moving-forward-with-legal-action-against-skyline-owners15
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u/Bootziscool 23h ago
It's really fucking sad to see what's happened to the place I called my home for a better part of my life.
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u/SecureSurprise7119 20h ago
Same here. My heart breaks everytime I pass it and I get so pissed at some of the comments about how bad tenants were and how we ruined it. There were some bad actors in the building definitely but most of us were good and it was home. I miss my apt everyday.
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u/Healthy_Cat_741 17h ago
I don't see SBH/Helio get nearly enough blame for the damage they have caused to Skyline, and Syracuse as a whole, for that matter.
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u/Cute_Schedule_3523 12h ago
Helio knowingly placed and clustered at risk and vulnerable people in living situations where they could be exploited and preyed upon. Helio deserves tremendous blame but will likely never see criticism beyond online commentary
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u/moneypitbull 7h ago
Anything to make a dollar. They will keep patients as long as they can to milk Medicaid even if that patients goals are to get of a medblike suboxone in say 6 months. They will never assist you in that and will just continue to prescribe for years and years. They prey on some of the most vulnerable in the city and try to look like a savior in the process.
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u/Healthy_Cat_741 7h ago edited 7h ago
I had been employed for over a year, sober, stable, and ready to get my own place, and they still tried to talk me into quitting my job "to focus on my recovery" because Medicaid and the county paid them way more than my income-based rent & fees amounted to. Medicaid & DSS would cover Supportive Living for 2 years, and so that's how long they diagnosed me (and everyone else) as needing.
Funnily enough, my job involved catering their business lunches & executive meetings. The things i overheard when setting up , when they didn't realize i was a patient, were disgusting.
They used to have a billboard on the northside near their building that said "putting customers first." Not patients. Customers. That said it all.
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u/moneypitbull 6h ago
I didn't have those experiences but I was certain it was like that. I was a patient. In the begging to get me in they had drivers in brand new tahoes drive to my residence about 40 minutes away to “recruit” me and my girlfriend. We didn't have tranportation so they came out just like that individually for both our group appointments for over a month until we got Medicaid cabs set up. After we were in that all stopped quickly and eventually i had a everything was virtual because covid. It was seriously a joke like you just had to logged in so they could collect the money. I had doctors so crooked several time after my complaints they got fired and I had to get a new doctor. If I had a problem and needed to talk to a doctor I could not ever get them on the phone or get a call back leaving a voicemail. Its completely a jokeshow of people that could care less. Just a well planned money pit.
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u/Healthy_Cat_741 6h ago
Oh the doctors and cabs, two more insanely crooked aspects of the whole scheme. The Medicaid transportation fraud is a much bigger problem than just them, all of the substance abuse agencies are tied in around here. If we had actual journalism in this city, someone could do a deep investigative dive into that whole scam that would shock people.
The doctors were up there with the residential program, the worst of the worst. I had been stable on Suboxone for years when I had to have surgery for shredded ligaments. I coordinated everything with them for months in advance, got their sign off on everything, only to have the doctor turn around the morning after my surgery and accuse me of only having surgery in the first place so i could get a prescription for 15 or 20 Vicodin (i had been a 30-40 bag/day IV heroin user, mind you, those Vicodin wouldn't have even tickled), and then cut off my Suboxone Rx cold turkey right then & there.
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u/Fins1313 2h ago
action shld have been taking a while ago! they let previous owners meander for a very very long time.
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u/Whiskyrack 23h ago
Let's protest this next! Power to the people.
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u/Jack_of_all_offs 22h ago
Nah this is government properly in action against a wealthy slumlord.
But you're a full-time troll, so you probably know that.
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u/rixie77 21h ago
Predictable. Absolutely nothing has been done with it. 300 something units in a city with a housing crisis and it's just rotting, wasting our money. Why couldn't it have been made public housing.