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Housing vouchers a golden ticket to pricey suburbs
Washington Post ^

Posted on 06/26/2011 1:24:04 PM PDT by bigtoona

CHARLOTTE — It was clear that Liza Jackson’s luck had changed when she drove her pearl-white Dodge sedan, the one with the huge pink plastic eyelashes over the headlights, into Pinebrook, an eight-year-old subdivision where residents tend to notice cars with huge pink eyelashes.

“There goes the neighborhood,” one homeowner said when she heard that her potential new neighbor had a federal housing voucher known as a Section 8.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: North Carolina
KEYWORDS: corruption; democrats; economy; fraud; gettohood; ghetto; govtabuse; hopeychangey; housing; liberalism; obamaville; redistribution; section8; welfarestate
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To: gussiefinknottle

Too many apartments do nothing for a neighborhood.


81 posted on 07/03/2011 8:09:27 PM PDT by cradle of freedom (Long live the Republic !)
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To: Excellence

Ask everyone you know if they are looking to rent a place. A way to beat it is to help the landlord find a good tenant before the trash moves in.


82 posted on 07/03/2011 8:11:56 PM PDT by cradle of freedom (Long live the Republic !)
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To: struggle

Imagine a whole country filled with Detroits.


83 posted on 07/03/2011 8:15:05 PM PDT by cradle of freedom (Long live the Republic !)
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To: squarebarb; bigtoona; Elendur; HereInTheHeartland
See post #38 this thread:

This is why the grassroots rebellion has to start at the municipal and county level.

How to get good candidates to run at this level? I don’t know.

The Precinct Committeman Project

If you go to redstate.com and look up the poster named "ColdWarrior" he has a lot about this.

Cheers!

84 posted on 08/10/2011 2:14:46 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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