As I understand section 8, the renter pays and is subsidized. The owner gets paid. The property is not degraded by substandard occupants.
The problem is what those ‘substandard occupants’ DO to the property. Do they maintain it? Do they pick up trash or mow the yard? Do they invite their friends over and turn the place into a ‘party house’?
It all depends on the occupants and how they behave. Some can live next door to a Sec 8 recipient and you’d never know it because their behavior doesn’t suggest it. With others, you can tell right away simply by how the property is maintained.
Perhaps, but from what I've seen/been told of Section 8 areas (coming near you soon), they sure as Hell degrade the neighborhood.
Geeesshhh are you displaying some wishful thinking!
I lived next to a section 8 complex for five lonnnnnnggg years. People knocking on my door asking for handouts, one guy came up to my back door during a rainstorm trying to sell me a stolen lawn mower.
A steady parade of booming car stereos all night on Fridays, announcing their arrival to buy drugs. And trash!!!
Bottles, litter, and (my favorite) disposable diapers, complete with baby poop in my back yard.
The summer before I sold and moved out they arrested 22
people for drugs one weekend. Out of a 48 unit complex!
Section 8 sucks, the renters tend to suck, and the persons that own the properties are guaranteed a reserved place in hell ( Which would be like living next to their rentals ).