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East Point housing: Today's line short -- and short-lived (Huge crowd for Section 8 application)
Atlanta Journal-Constitution ^ | August 8, 2010 | MIke Morris & Rhonda Cook

Posted on 08/12/2010 4:35:29 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine

East Point residents began lining up to turn in Section 8 housing applications before daybreak Thursday, a day after a crowd of 30,000 mobbed a shopping center to pick up the forms.

This time, less than a dozen people were in line.

[Goes on to describe yesterday's chaos in the heat]

(Excerpt) Read more at ajc.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; US: Georgia
KEYWORDS: atlanta; handouts; housing; section8
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To: EVO X

I have been up since 2AM looking and applying online.

The way it is done around here is to visit the company web site and apply. Very time consuming but I also receive several emails giving me long lists of supposed jobs that are available.

I have gone on interviews and have watched people enter and ask for an application. The people were told this is all done online and to use their computer or they can do this in their home.


41 posted on 08/12/2010 10:47:42 AM PDT by hsmomx3
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To: hsmomx3
I have been up since 2AM looking and applying online.

Best of luck on your search. I can sympathize. I've gone through both a lengthy job search and a 1/3 cut in pay in the past.

42 posted on 08/12/2010 12:08:29 PM PDT by EVO X
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To: livius

After years of following politics I have developed a Machiavelian mind. What if these people are being guided to Atlanta in order to boost the democrat voting population in that city? Call it gerrymandering inreverse, moving the people instead of the district lines. In recent years many whites have been moving in Atlanta and they are changing the black political power structure of the city. Hmmm....


43 posted on 08/12/2010 2:15:52 PM PDT by cradle of freedom (Long live the Republic !)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

Watched the video. Didn’t see one woman who didn’t have her hair and nails done. I’ve never seen a woman in the local grocery store who was buying with an EBT card who didn’t have her hair and nails done.


44 posted on 08/12/2010 3:15:32 PM PDT by Excellence ("A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it.")
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To: Pearls Before Swine

Section 8 housing. Coming soon to a neighborhood near you. In fact it might be your own neighborhood


45 posted on 08/12/2010 3:17:19 PM PDT by dennisw (2012)
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To: dennisw
Section 8 housing. Coming soon to a neighborhood near you. In fact it might be your own neighborhood.

It can't happen here (to quote Frank Zappa).

Come to think of it, I have another house I'm having difficulty selling.... I wonder if it could be rented... Don't worry, I don't feel the pull of the dark side, but that must be how it starts.

46 posted on 08/12/2010 3:25:17 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: cradle of freedom

I think Barry wants to get his homies into every politically important place in the country, even if that means luring them with free housing. There’s also a special mortgage program for non-citizens that he just put into effect - it doesn’t require an SS number on any of the documents, but only a bank account number. Incredible.


47 posted on 08/12/2010 3:33:36 PM PDT by livius
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To: Pearls Before Swine

Your dilemma will soon be solved when Comrade 0bongo mandates that all owners of empty rental units must take applications from Section 8 Comrades


48 posted on 08/12/2010 3:33:53 PM PDT by dennisw (2012)
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To: livius

That mortgage program has been in place since Clinton which is why we have a real estate/banking collapse. These subprime mortgage loans where given to illegal aliens using the TIN (tax identity number), people on welfare, people collecting unemployment checks, no down payment necessary. If you want to read what this did to the banks read “The Trillion Dollar Meltdown” by Charles R. Morris. The banks had a name for these loans “toxic waste”. They tried to minimize the damage by chopping up mortgages and combining them with other mortgages in “tranches”. The bad mortgages were sold all around the world. If someone had deliberately wanted to take down the world economy (think Cloward-Piven) they couldn’t have done a better job. All because the Democrats under Clinton thought that anyone with a pulse should be able to own a home.


49 posted on 08/12/2010 5:50:30 PM PDT by cradle of freedom (Long live the Republic !)
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To: dennisw

Here in Massachusetts we are going to vote on the 40B question this November. Fourty B is a law that was passed some years ago which requires that every town have a certain percentage of moderate income housing. Builders can run roughshod over the wishes of the neighbors as long as they build some “affordable housing.”

There is no end to their social engineering. Think of all of the billions of dollars in subsidized housing that has been built since the forties. They brainwashed a nation into thinking that it was the government’s job to provide housing. The free market provides all the housing we need. People with less money will live in cheaper older housing but they do have housing that suits their income level.


50 posted on 08/12/2010 6:05:15 PM PDT by cradle of freedom (Long live the Republic !)
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To: livius

I saw something about a California brand new neighborhood that is 90% empty, many of the homes are being rented out to section 8 tenants and there is now a crime problem in this brand new expensive neighborhood in the exurbs. Homeowners are now stuck with houses that no one wants and they are afraid for their physical safety.

Part of this problem is that the mega builders just want to get rich quick. They get their money and just take off. Building hundreds of houses at a time creates a glutted market which always ends with disaster. Back in the eighties there was a glut of condos, some of the condos in our area were left empty. This is a cycle but it shouldn’t be, housing shouldn’t be about rolling the dice.


51 posted on 08/12/2010 6:20:48 PM PDT by cradle of freedom (Long live the Republic !)
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To: cradle of freedom
Part of this problem is that the mega builders just want to get rich quick.

And folks who were foolish enough to buy a house 60 miles from work just so they can get something "big" for a little money.

52 posted on 08/12/2010 6:24:17 PM PDT by Clemenza (Remember our Korean War Veterans)
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To: I Buried My Guns

And everyone who has stubbornly voted for Democrats for the past 40 years has brought this on us. Here in Massachusetts, I have heard people complain about welfare abuse for well over 30 years. They complain and complain but during all of that time they have been voting for Democrats. Talk about stuck on stupid.


53 posted on 08/12/2010 6:29:34 PM PDT by cradle of freedom (Long live the Republic !)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

This needs more media attention.


54 posted on 08/14/2010 1:16:01 PM PDT by davidosborne (I am SpartanSixDelta)
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