[keepitreal]

Section 8 ruins nice neighborhoods. Those who get the vouchers rarely treat their houses well, and then the whole neighborhood starts going downhill.

[wmfights]

Those who get the vouchers rarely treat their houses well, and then the whole neighborhood starts going downhill.

You are so right!

When sec. 8 comes, hardworking blue collar, lower middle class, working poor move out. The neighborhood, or town, begins to lose retail business, then the tax base deteriorates and the infrastructure stops being maintained. The final stage the neighborhood, or town, becomes dependent on state or federal govt.

[SledgeCS]

I agree completely with the fact that Section 8 ruins good neighborhoods. I have seen family members loose tens of thousands of dollars by the government deem that the nice neighborhoods they lived in could use more diversity and implemented section 8. A suburb of Denver went from the official name of Montbello to Montghetto. All of the supermarkets and stores closed down due to extreme increases of theft. The only thing left there is basically gas stations, bars and liquor stores.

[BBell]

East New Orleans used to be very nice. It was called the Pearl of New Orleans. Then came Section 8 and the rest is history.

[syriacus]

Those who get the voucher

According to one essay I read, vouchers are especially insidious.

Some vouchers pay (at least as much as) the average rent in the area. That can mean they cover a higher rent payment than a "working-poor" individual in the same area can afford.

The landlords might dislike the habits of vouchered tenants, but they find it hard to turn down the increased income. The result is, the voucher holders get the better housing and the working poor get the leftovers. This is a disincentive to work.

Also, landlords have often been more eager to accept the vouchered tenants, because the government would pay the landlord automatically each month.