About 4x’s a year my wife and daughters drive to Pinehurst, NC to see their Granny. We pass the section 8 projects on the way in. Every time we go we place bets on whether or not these same 4 people are sitting on the front porch, not working. We always pass by on a Thursday or Friday about noon. 3 out of 4 times, there they are! In their 20’s and 30’s just sitting. It’s a great illustration to my kids on the “wonders” of hand outs! The complex is called “Optimist Apartments” too! Right next to “Optimist Field” which is always empty. Sitting on the porch wears a fellow out.
My husband is an accountant for subsidized housing. Doctors, lawyers, etc., come into the offices looking for one of the apartments. They don't know it's welfare housing. If you don't actually open the door to one of the occupied apartments, they look very expensive.
One of the complexes was sold to a private buyer. She turned the apartments into expensive town houses. All she did was have the bio hazard teams clean them up, and called in the exterminator. Then she had them painted.
Before the welfare people move in, these apartments are fantastic. They always trash them, though. House work is just too much for them to bare.
LOL! Too true.