Posted on 08/02/2010 8:50:10 AM PDT by reaganaut1
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The program, known as Section 8, has for decades put families in functional but basic homes and apartments, sometimes in less-than-desirable communities.
But overbuilding during the housing boom has left so many homes available that landlords, desperate for renters, are wooing Section 8 recipients, whose government subsidies, delivered electronically, guarantee the landlord gets paid. As a result, Section 8 recipients suddenly have a housing smorgasbord.
Plenty of average housing stock remains in many places, but in certain markets, there are also more upscale selections. On the website GoSection8.com, landlords nationwide tout boom-era showpieces—replete with "great rooms," backyard swimming pools and built-in stainless-steel barbecue grills—that once sold for hundreds of thousands of dollars. Las Vegas has been one of the nation's hardest-hit real-estate markets.
Some renters are getting pickier. "More and more, I'm seeing tenants turn down places," says Arman Davtyan, owner of seven Las Vegas properties rented to Section 8 tenants. Instead, they're going for "another property that's either bigger or in a better area or has more bedrooms," he says. "Before, they tended to take whatever they could get."
Though some neighbors have long contended that government-subsidized tenants increase crime and depress property values, some now say that having a house occupied is better than leaving it vacant, which attracts vandalism and other problems.
In Antioch, Calif., a San Francisco bedroom community where the number of Section 8 listings has skyrocketed in recent years, residents have mixed emotions about the new tenants. "I would concede, I wouldn't be happy with an empty house," says Walter Ruehlig, a longtime resident of Antioch. "It's kind of like, 'What poison do you choose?"'
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Where da white wimmin at??
If things change, try getting them out. You can't. The laws are on THEIR side and they KNOW how to work the system. If you get lucky, and DO get them out, this place will have to be gutted. It will be that TRASHED.
Decent people will MOVE OUT. Section 8 people will bring in their “friends” and drugs in no time. It will be thee place to hang out and trash. It will be even more fun for them to live THIS high without paying for it. Instead, the taxpayers are getting screwed again. The government Section 8 housing comes from TAXPAYERS like all other money given out by the government. So we all get $crewed again.
So laugh all the way to the bank, you fool! You will regret it. You will NOT profit on Section 8 housing. The Section 8 housing folks will have the final laugh on YOUR dime and My dime. You stupid fool ... .
“Section 8 has been cited for accelerating neighborhood decline.”
It is GUARANTEED to happen.
Decent people MOVE OUT and more Section 8 MOVES IN.
These people are FOOLS to go along with this. Their building will be TRASHED. They won’t make enough money to cover the trashing.
The owners are going along with it. They don’t have to. They’re as bad as the Section 8 housing people and they will literally PAY FOR IT. The tennents will trash the place. Decent people will MOVE OUT.
Hope they’re not using unionized workers!
They’ll wipe out any profit or income from the Section 8 folks.
“Official Obama -residential song.”
Rush needs to play that when Obama runs again.
THAT should be his theme song.
Moving on up .....
“Official Obama -residential song.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9y4iXAso4I&feature=related
Rush needs to play that when Obama runs again.
THAT should be his theme song.
Moving on up .....
Thanks!
I found one that does work.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9y4iXAso4I&feature=related
Don’t the Jeffersons remind you of the Obama’s?
WTH?? What did I say that made you come back with that rant??
This one?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3YRWhg4YaA&feature=related
LOL!!!!
Here’s another good one:
Obama moving on up!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Iz5LS9G9cU&feature=related
The problem is that we are laughing at the TRUTH when it comes to Obama and tribe moving on up.
Yes we are. They remind me so much of the Jeffersons except, Weezee is much nicer than Meechelle.
“WTH?? What did I say that made you come back with that rant??”
Calm down. It wasn’t aimed at you personally and I apologize if it looked that way.
I am soo freaking frustrated with our country being destroyed. It gets more outrageous every day. Just when you think it can’t get worse, jerk-off does something else or there is a news item like this.
I do believe the majority on FR work their tushes off to have a decent life. I resent people who use poverty as an excuse to be a social parasite and now as an entitlement for homes allot of people here may not be able to afford.
So, again, I am just angry at seeing this kind of injustice. This makes a mockery of the work ethic that made America great.
Black trash ... That WH will have to be fumigated when they finally MOVE OUT. Maybe he’ll take the tribe back to Kenya, where he fits in better and explore his roots permanently. He can have the nest hut in the village.
OK. I see. I totally 100% agree. I thought you were talking to me. LOL We have Mexicans in our neighborhood who bought a lovely house that I would have loved to have had but couldn’t afford. Now I think I see how they did it. I am angry, too. Angry and becoming bitter. I just hate feeling this level of anger and frustration. It seems like the Republicans who we expect to do something are either unwilling or unable to do anything about it.
“These people are FOOLS to go along with this. Their building will be TRASHED. They won’t make enough money to cover the trashing.”
The owners file an insurance claim for the damages.
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