Vouchers are the tool HUD is using to bring about economic and racial diversity in neighborhoods. Move the urban poor into homes, condos, and neighborhoods they can’t afford and won’t maintain.
It is unfortunate these vouchers are not being used in Chappaqua, the Hamptons, Greenwich, East Lake Shore Drive in Chicago, Coral Gables, Beverly Park, McClean, Potomac, Martha’s Vineyard, the Upper West Side.
BINGO!
Plus subsidized rent actually increases all the rent in the area, in turn forcing more employed tenants to be unable to afford rentand require subsidies.
Many landlords prefer the tenants with vouchers.
Grocers are the biggest lobbyists for food stamps too.
I don’t remember offhand which neighborhood Stephanie Rawlings-Blake lives in. But there too, wherever it may be.