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Housing vouchers a golden ticket to pricey suburbs
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Posted on 06/26/2011 1:24:04 PM PDT by bigtoona

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To: bigtoona
As a small-time landlord, in over 30 years, I have never had a section 8 tenant mow the lawn, clean up the outside, or even water a flower bed.

OTOH, I have had plenty of damage inside, pit bull dogs, and wild kids damaging all property in sight.

You can take the tenant out of the ghetto, but you can't take the ghetto out of the tenant.

41 posted on 06/26/2011 2:18:08 PM PDT by CurlyDave
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To: heye2monn
"Yes, of course, give ghetto people food stamps or low-income housing if they need it.."

My, but aren't you generous with other peoples money? Who is going to take it from me? You?


42 posted on 06/26/2011 2:18:22 PM PDT by I see my hands (Embrace misanthropy)
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To: Scotsman will be Free

I totally disagree. Give them nothing.
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Agreed.

I we only we would give them nothing there would be a lot less of them.


43 posted on 06/26/2011 2:20:29 PM PDT by free me (Sarah Palin 2012 - GAME ON!!)
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To: bigtoona

Think of it as school choice for homeowners, vouchers and all.


44 posted on 06/26/2011 2:23:41 PM PDT by Wolfie
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Sec 8 sucks.

When the Calif housing authority started doing this in the 60’s, they called it “blockbusting,” and it was done intentionally and spitefully.


45 posted on 06/26/2011 2:24:37 PM PDT by Trailerpark Badass (I'm sick of damn idiots)
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To: Scotsman will be Free
It's the New "American Dream".....having your very own Section 8 Voucher.

The entire Federal Government is, in military terms, "Section 8".

46 posted on 06/26/2011 2:25:10 PM PDT by radioone
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To: bigtoona

“””But Jackson could well be Pinebrook’s salvation, a means by which landlords can rent an empty, crime-magnet of a house to a tenant with a steady, government-backed check.”””


From my personal experience Section 8 is a crime magnet for government backed drugusers to vandalize your property.

Homeowners beware. If a Section 8 tenant vandalizes your property, you pay the damages. If your property is vandalized by a street thug, your insurance company pays the damages.


47 posted on 06/26/2011 2:25:10 PM PDT by Presbyterian Reporter
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To: heye2monn

“Why, on the taxpayer dime, should we screw up suburban neighborhoods?”

Welcome to the Detroit suburbs.


48 posted on 06/26/2011 2:29:29 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Liberals who graduate from Ivy League schools are the dumbest people on the planet.)
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To: LADY J

1) You must be of Color
2) 1 kid (it gets better the more kids you have) — always zero baby daddies
3) work 15 hours a week at minimum wage

=Welfare Jackpot


49 posted on 06/26/2011 2:31:58 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (Herman Cain 2012)
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To: bigtoona
The purpose of Section 8 is to import Democrat voters into non-Democrat areas and swamp out their votes.
50 posted on 06/26/2011 2:33:39 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (If Sarah Palin really was unelectable, state-run media would be begging the GOP to nominate her.)
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To: LADY J

Welcome to Obama’s America.


51 posted on 06/26/2011 2:35:55 PM PDT by Realman30 ("I've already made a donation to Haiti. It's called taxes". . . . El Rushbo.)
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To: bigtoona
So, figuring she is paying $200 a month, the taxpayers are giving Liza nearly $10,000 a year (possibly more with utilities) in addition to other government assistance she receives.

It's winning situation for Liza and the speculator who buys up foreclosed properties - all financed by the U.S. Taxpayer.

52 posted on 06/26/2011 2:38:07 PM PDT by bwc2221
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To: bigtoona

REDISTRIBUTION...........GOING AS PLANNED. Fanny and freddie AKA government mortgage giving away forclosures to the non rich


53 posted on 06/26/2011 2:40:52 PM PDT by ronnie raygun (V)
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To: ronnie raygun

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7go-e27ij2g
watch and weep


54 posted on 06/26/2011 2:42:14 PM PDT by ronnie raygun (V)
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To: LADY J

How do people with jobs & ‘children’ of working age qualify for Section 8 housing, or any subsidies?

I think you are asking about the wrong program....that would be the eugenics program.


55 posted on 06/26/2011 2:42:14 PM PDT by proudtobeanamerican1 (A house divided against itself cannot stand.” Abraham Lincoln)
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To: apoliticalone
but not in neighborhoods where the ruling elite live who get to make these decisions that ruin other’s lives. It never happens in their neighborhood.

This is an assault on the lower middle working class. They are the ones who get hurt.I bought a nice modest house in a nice neighborhood years ago and then the government moved in some Section 8 people nearby. This reduced the market price of my house and I had to sell it for less. Cost me several thousand dollars.

If you are tich you can buy a house in upscale area that government doesn't put Section 8 people in.

56 posted on 06/26/2011 2:42:14 PM PDT by tommix2
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To: bigtoona
The inmates are truly running the asylum.

Once to get a Section 8 you must be nuts.

Now we're nuts and giving them!

57 posted on 06/26/2011 2:42:46 PM PDT by JohnBovenmyer (Obama been Liberal. Hope Change!)
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To: apoliticalone

I would take that bet.


58 posted on 06/26/2011 2:44:29 PM PDT by arrogantsob (Why do They hate her so much?)
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To: Scotsman will be Free

You gotta look at the bright side. By allowing these folks to destroy a lot of housing it reduces the oversupply of homes on the market. Call it a stimulus program.

We are often told of “unaffordable housing” problems when the biggest problem is unaffordable PEOPLE.


59 posted on 06/26/2011 2:48:14 PM PDT by arrogantsob (Why do They hate her so much?)
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To: Eldon Tyrell

>>Her “vouchre” is $1032 per MONTH!

Holy s***. This is just stupid. I bought a foreclosure about 7 miles from Charlotte and will probably pay $700 for a 5 year old house.

Section 8 needs to go; no wonder marriage and other hard-working blue collar values are going down the toilet so fast.


60 posted on 06/26/2011 3:11:59 PM PDT by struggle
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