West End neighbors outraged after home once slated for affordable housing listed as Airbnb

Former West End Community Council member Sherri King sounded the alarm when she learned a home near her once rehabbed by Habitat for Humanity was sold to a Seven Hills employee and listed on Airbnb.

[@kendra.achildress5210]

She is lying right through her teeth!

[@CC-si3cr]

"My daughter done that!" Throwing her daughter under the bus for putting a month's worth of dates online for her new home rental. (wink, wink) Great grammar coming from Sheila Nared, a Seven Hills social worker. She should've NEVER been able to buy this house! Just like no one can enter a sweepstakes contest if they work for the company, the same rules should apply for employees of affordable housing programs. This is so shady and blasphemous! Heads need to roll for this one to make sense.

[@hippiehillape]

Sheila, you have abused your position.

[@Pomelu]

Shocker

[@parrotcracker6629]

How can it be sold? Especially to an employee. Wouldn't that be a conflict of interest? I thought these affordable houses were supposed to be rented out at a reasonable price to low income families. Seven Hills need to be investigated for letting this happen.

[@sibhuskyguy]

i was wondering the exact same thing.

[@woozy607]

It’s crazy how many habitat for humanity homes in my area are sold after the person lives there for so many years, like 5 years and then they sell for a profit asap

[@sibhuskyguy]

@@woozy607 in my opinion once an apartment or house is designated affordable housing, they are ALWAYS designated affordable housing.... my parent's apartment building we moved into around 76 or 77.... was originally built in 54/55 as tenement apartments... the walls and floors are paper thin, cheaply made apartment buildings... it went co-op in 87... those arrogant, stupid people immediately started complaining about noise from adjacent apartments because they were paying a luxury fee per apartment/square footage, when the buildings were designed to be affordable housing..... they immediately came up with rules that prior to 87 when they bought the place and took over were absolutely insane... pre 87 people would sunbathe on the rooftops in the summer... sit in folding chairs on the front lawn..... gather across the street in the park (that was mostly the elderly, but grandkids were always warmly welcomed across the street by the elderly, related or not) my point is the community was great, everyone just did their thing, it was all accepted, very few complaints... because it was tenement housing so everyone knew what they were in for... after 87 and the upgrades (which was only to replace sheetrock in apartments and freshen up the public areas to look fancy while costing as little as possible, on a set of buildings 32 years old, made to be cheap as possible which at that point were falling apart... they were selling apartments from studios at around 1100 to 2 bedrooms at around 1400 (in 1987 mind you) in "maintenance fees" plus 175k-250k per apartment to purchase..... and they ruined the community in the process... recently they have been trying to bring the buildings back but that doesn't even mention making the apartments worth a luxury price. they overprice the bare minimum as luxury and demand people pay it...

[@Knightcraft42]

I'm glad she brought it. Single mothers have been getting a free ride for too long just because you have a kid out of wedlock. 94% of people on welfare are single mothers.

[@jimjimgl3]

This isn't on Habitat for Humanity. Seven Hills Neighborhood Association is responsible for letting an employee buy the home.

[@countbenjamin1442]

The women is a liar. How did she not know her home ( she is supposed to be living in) Kelly is that was being used as an Airbnb. I'd also like to see the records where they put the house on the market before offering it to an employee because I'm pretty sure the house never hit the market open to the general public or else they heavily overpriced it

[@c.c.2508]

Wow! She's a bold face liar. Couldn't even keep her story straight the few minutes she was on the phone. Smh

[@Shell2014]

Sold to a social worker..😂😂😂😂 fraud alert 😂😂😂

[@veraserebrennikova5452]

I knew a family that was in line for a home like that then when I came their turn someone else got it there is definitely scams in that system

[@HuguetteBC]

I do not know this persons salary but the base salary for a social worker in that area is about $60,000. Were there any guidelines for the workers of Seven Hills to buy this affordable housing unit? Affordable rental unit, was it ever rented? The house went up or sale to the public and no one responded, I really find that hard to believe. More problems here than Airbnb😂

[@tech-bore8839]

My guess is they listed it for a price they knew nobody could/would pay, for a certain period, before declaring "we couldn't find a buyer". Then they transfer ownership to an employee who could flip it into an AirBnB and profit. I'm curious how many properties have transferred from the organization's hands to someone else they're tied to.

[@sct4040]

Disgusting, greed, corruption!

[@NativeAmericanSwag]

"My daughter done that." No ma'am, you did that! Just hearing her talk so ignorantly about it let's us truly hear the lies unfold as she could not keep up with the story.🤦‍♀

[@NuncNuncNuncNunc]

How long was it on the market? Where was it listed? What was the list price? How much did it sell for? What were sales restrictions,e.g. first time buyer?

[@Impozalla]

She's lying through her teeth. Look how many times she changed her story about who posted the property up on Airbnb. She said it was her sister or her daughter then changed the story to she don't know who posted the listing on Airbnb. She's such a scammer. The house needed to be taken from her.

[@RaspBerryPies]

@@Impozalla yeah like how do people like this get houses but everyone else that’s nice is suffering

[@gemmeldrakes2758]

​@@RaspBerryPies Because they ate dishonest. They are willing to cheat to get ahead of the rest of us. But they always gey found out eventually.

[@justshady]

@@RaspBerryPies She had hookups did you even watch the video. Nice guys finish last.

[@anye76]

Liar, liar, liar! Passing the blame.

[@apllu17]

No one else wanted the house, so she bought it. WHO CARES if she is on airbnb. My goodness, why can't she short term rent to pay it off? Why are you all haters?

[@user-ln8hp4vt5z]

@@apllu17and your Pathetic Ignorance continues. How Pathetically Ignorant.

[@Girl-Next-Door]

@apllu17 it was a conflict of interest. These homes were given up for humanitarian reasons and Hopes for Humanity dropped the ball. She shouldn't have been allowed to buy the property because it could potentially be rented out for something else, which it has. These homes were designed to help lower income families, not to fill a rich mans pocket. Now it's a cash grab for her and some families are out of a home. Just the very fact that she took the listing down in a matter of minutes after being questioned about it let's us know that she KNEW what she had done was wrong.

[@user-ln8hp4vt5z]

How Pathetically Criminal. Pure Corruption.

[@woozy607]

I doubt they couldn’t find a buyer, they gave her first dibs

[@LoganGraceHope]

She needs to be forced to sell the house back! The people who sold the home should lose their jobs. This is abuse against the very people they are hired by the state to protect. Tax dollars were used for this corrupt act. Smh!

[@stevetaxpayer6664]

Those types of bureaucrats almost always turn out to be corrupt one way or another.

[@Glimmmerra]

Just WOW, way to take advantage.

[@Mlogan11]

Conflicts of interest like this should not be allowed. Board should not be directly offering home sales to their employees.

[@gomerhanger2285]

0:38 its always those who look like you that take advange of the same people they are supposed to help.

[@latonyalee7821]

This happened in my area as well. The developer was approved to build "affordable housing" and once approved tried to do the bait and switch and turn them into AirBnB's, but they pulled the plug on him quickly.

[@ItsPhillyDH]

They couldn’t find a public buyer? I smell liesssss smh

[@michaelmatthew6019]

Sounds like a shady deal was made behind closed doors. 🙄

[@1906james]

Thats what coruption looks like folks

[@oovotzify]

Corruption.

[@D1andOnlyHammer]

Lack of accountability

[@Cucumberflavoredmustard]

It depends on the timeline. If I remember right, I think there is a 5 year wait before an HFH rehab can be listed on the OPEN market. Until then, the original family has to live there full-time. People getting on their feet should not be expected to live on one place forever, but this sounds like a shady off-market deal to someone's buddy, who then turned around and rented it expensively.

[@rob5598]

Never any accountability. Its part of their culture.

[@melissasmith397]

She probably has 2 homes and doesn't care about other people needing a home

[@LikeBlowingintheWind]

This is why I don't contribute to Habitat for Humanity

[@aquariusmoon771]

Wow, what a couple of real winners here. Great people.

[@TheNightshadePrince]

No these people are right habitat in my area won’t help anyone who doesn’t make over 22 k and sell houses for market prices. Habitat and goodwill are both scams.

[@REALTRAININGMATTERS]

Check the STR permit application. If there is a permit, the owner would have had to sign it under penalty of perjury. If not, then Metro has the authority to suspend it for one year from obtaining an STR permit.

[@MsNerdsRevenge]

It was former President Carter who helped implement Habitat for Humanity. He has the Christmas Ornament

[@darkwolfe6986]

Good deeds to help people get into stable housing went terribly wrong here 😡

[@andreaguidebeck2305]

This is pure theft. Shame on those taking advantage.

[@vlsice2024]

I don’t think he could be taken away from her, but definitely the actual habitat should sue the actual board of the seven Hills weren’t they supposed to keep it as an affordable unit in fact, the habitat should’ve kept it I thought the habitat is only supposed to rehab a place that is supposed to go to a deserving needy person that has no home and then they actually rehab for them because the habitat can’t just go and rehab homes just to be rehab they have to have a lease somebody to have you know on the list to give it to the end that’s Habitat for Humanity. It is very irresponsible on there part did not have somebody move

[@ravenna9969]

Ole scamming self

[@loudroomreacts]

Lol animated version. She dint expect that😅 she thought the Public will believe she looks like that once they see her in person😂 @1:37

[@kengvang3062]

Corruption. Not surprised

[@v.a.993]

Very attractive row homes. I want one.

[@garysgarage.2841]

You want to smell your neighbors farts

[@dkg_gdk]

Take that house back!!!!! damn greedy aholes!

[@BufordDuckworth]

Nobody should be allowed to own a home they don't live in.

[@finally97]

I thought that Habitat for Humanity secured the new homeowner BEFORE the property is built. They are typically expected to complete so many hours in the build. Where is the person who applied for the build?

[@refosco1993]

She’s excited to be in her new home y’all !!🤣🤣🤣

[@OMWone6629]

What? A worker?

[@44zeex]

If you couldn't find a buyer then just wait.

[@foofan4386]

So ridiculous! She can give the tax dollars back that were used to rehab that house for affordable housing… it’s affordable for her she says, I bet it is borderline free, a kickback.

[@joltjolt5060]

Habitat for humanity homes can't be rented.

[@cynymin6420]

I really think we need to start limiting the amount of vacation rentals can be within each zip code. There’s hundreds of thousands of businesses filling up neighborhoods. They should have to get approved to have business in residential neighborhoods.

[@noahname6695]

All these scams are ripoffs. Habitat for humanity is an amazing blessing. Or it was once upon a time

[@TheNightshadePrince]

No habitat doesn’t help poor people anymore they tell poor people “it’s a hand up not a hand out”. Habitat is now a scam.

[@Pilikoa]

Caught red handed.

[@stevenmcgillivray9283]

Like it, or dislike it private property owners can do as they see fit with their property.

[@thatgirlPAIGE94]

WOW

[@C2C19]

Corruption hold the people responsible for this travesty

[@5percent_95isLost]

The way he said an "animated version of her face". Yup, thats one way to put it lol.

[@Wyndu777]

What is wrong with some of these people???? Complete scammers!!!!

[@WilliamsPinch]

“Animated version of her face” lol

[@JohnSmith-nj4zq]

An investigator should look into the sales of the house. It seems like a under the table kinda deal. The price was probably way below market value. It should have been auctioned off to the highest bidder. Just looking at the comments, it seems like this is a scheme. The owner just needs to "Live there for 5 years" and then flip the house for a huge profit (because the house sold to them were dirt cheap). There might be some kick back money that's involved for the people that sold her the house.

[@peter320vn]

This has it all. Social worker abuse the system. Single mother of mixed black kids. 😂

[@drewo8209]

How does a social worker afford a home like that. I smell fraud and corruption.

[@thomas_cooke]

Poor journalism. Seems like this news station is on “her side”.

[@alexanderphillips1101]

This is bs and she doesn’t live there at all she did it for the money she can make of it

[@VroodenTheGreat]

No ONE is buying a property for Section 8. That isn't the fault of the people that can afford it. That is the fault of the people that will inevitably move in there.

[@DRventura333]

Yet another one!! abusing her position by stealing from those who need it.

[@JohnWoodall-sv8pm]

Disgraceful!!! Was any government money used here? INVESTIGATE!!!!

[@chriswalker6389]

Sad

[@english7451]

Too honest isn’t she.

[@kidneycarecoaching3766]

That’s awful…

[@julezxbandit6734]

Hold all of you are forgetting NO ONE BOUGHT THE HOME are yall deaf no one bought the home at the price for the affordable home program so they sold it she can do as she pleases

[@Mr_May0r0]

Where's the father?

[@successfulMillennial]

😅😅😅😅😅well see see who made Becky a single mom

[@dski8097]

Where is the father????

[@warrenpeece1726]

Ha ha! No buyers from the general public? Obviously then the "affordable housing crisis" is over. If it ever actually existed.

[@kingokafor6215]

😂aw naw, seize the property

[@CrackberryMe]

Here we go 🙄 She does not live there .. just like a snowball doesn’t live in hell.

[@charlespiper9291]

The illegal immigrants could put at lest 35 people there

[@TheNightshadePrince]

Habitat is scam.

[@JM-ps6le]

😂😂😂😂

[@vitaAutLetum]

You exposed a government worker. 🤣

[@NABFIVE]

Go figure another Italian

[@swaters5127]

How many baby daddies?

[@HanginInSF]

Ha ha ha well played 😂😂😂

[@foreverfly3113]

She lying! 😂

[@librarynan4610]

Unless this is a city owned property, the owner should be able to do what they want with it. People do not own property as a social service.

[@julezxbandit6734]

And if she would go to a family members home to rent it out for a day or so who cares yall are hating on a hustle what yall can’t buy a home that’s why hahahaha

[@ntwadumela374]

shaniqua out here snatching up houses from hood rats! and the mudshark wanted that house but can't find her baby daddies!!! 🤣🤣🤣

[@Glowsaphinebaker]

Make your money Shiela the government does it all the time baby

[@alphaomega5909]

Ain't Cold Blooded Unfettered American Capitalism n Greed grand,lol. Thats 😅Trumpism.

[@jonnyfendi2003]

Trump is not in office and has not been in years.

[@fawn1785]

@@alphaomega5909 I doubt the owner would vote for Trump. Social workers tend to be very liberal and vote Democratic.

[@gerardwebb1945]

it was sold to her, so she has all right to do what she pleases with it.

[@smallcoffee75]

This is a non profit organization and there is nothing wrong with taking care of insiders. It gives them a chance to make money and put dollars in their pockets. As long as they allow 1 or 2 units to be used for needy families who are not connected we should turn a blind eye to this behavior and thank them for caring about the needy.

[@rogersmith7808]

That's BS. The home was rehabbed for people in need, not for people who are not in need but just happen to be close enough to the situation to find loopholes in the rules and buy it for themselves. You really think Habitat for Humanity wanted to spend tens of thousands of dollars and countless manhours to rehab a house for some lady who was doing fine in life?

[@jessicah3782]

Tf. No

[@hokiesuz]

Absolutely ridiculous.

[@lkj621]

@@smallcoffee75 - LOL

[@SeniorMoostacho]

Non Profit status BS needs to stop. It is ALL for Profit without paying taxes. The Social Worker bought it.....gotta figure she is also in control of how things work around those issues. The Social Worker bought it for investment. FJB.

[@BobbySmith-w5s]

This is America

[@BlackRiggerEBTWelfare]

What do you expect from these people

[@drkimoni5011]

Social DODO