Note, Urbans is not a racial term here. My next door neighbor is black, and he is my friend and a great guy. No sir, I am talking about people with little respect for authority or cleanliness apparently. It sucks, it is bringing everything down.
In our area Middle Easterners are buying up foreclosed homes in the suburbs and then as a new slum landlord renting them to Section 8 denizens. Obama has accellerated this Section 8 program.
James Bovard has been writing about this plague and government war to destroy the suburbs for years now.
Section 8: A Wrecking Ball for Your Neighborhood
by James Bovard, September 1996
The federal government is involved in economic blockbusting in thousands of the nation’s neighborhoods. The federal Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is using government handouts to allow welfare recipients to move into middle-class and upper middle-class neighborhoods.
Congress created the Section 8 program in 1974 to provide direct rent subsidies to selected low-income families. Section 8 currently gives over $7 billion a year in rental subsidies to over 2 million families. HUD Secretary Henry Cisneros is pushing to rapidly expand the program to allow more welfare recipients to move to affluent neighborhoods. Cisneros calls Section 8 “a wonderful mechanism because it gives people tremendous choice and mobility.” Section 8 is a symbol of government welfare run amok — of social workers using the power of subsidies to seek to forcibly change the nature of hundreds of suburban neighborhoods.
HUD Assistant Secretary for Fair Housing Roberta Achtenberg declared last year on National Public Radio: “We are compelled by statutory prescription as well as constitutional mandate to see to it that every American has open and free housing choice.” But the only people today who have “free housing choice” are those who have HUD vouchers that force other taxpayers to cover all or most of their rent.
Read at:
http://www.fff.org/freedom/0996d.asp