WMAL NEWS SITE BLOGGER When I worked for Connecticut Legal Services (a “poor people” tax exempt legal outfit) we defended a client from eviction whose Section 8 housing allowance was $1,800 a month in Greenwich, Connecticut, the richest town in Connecticut — it would be about $2,500 a month in today’s money. Why? Because there weren’t enough poor people in Greenwich.
Tip of the iceberg here in Fairfax County. You can sit in the same traffic jam for 15 years and they won’t do a damned thing with the road but if you need a homeless shelter or halfway house, there’s one not more than 3-4 miles away from wherever you are.
this is legacy of bill clinton and andrew cuomo.
The purpose of Section 8 housing is to import Democrat voters into non-Democrat strongholds and overwhelm the non-Democrat vote.
This topic was just covered the other day, discussing houses in upper-end subdivisions, including in my area (Charlotte, NC). Property-owners, who are often banks these days, love these arrangements because it get income flowing on their myriads of vacant units.
I lived in a place like that in CT. Had to live in the town for work. 3400 a month. I am sure by some people i saw in the common area that the state had some families stashed away there too.
And therein lies the problem. Even some folks who oppose this don't want to make the poor uncomfortable.
Why not? If we listened to Ben Franklin, and made the poor as uncomfortable in their lives as possible, they may work harder to improve their situation. If not, oh well -- why should I pay for it, when I work hard enough -- and often struggle -- to pay my own way?
I don't mind helping the truly helpless, but I'm tired of helping the worthless.
I recently came back from a trip to Asheville to visit family. In the paper they were talking about a community meeting for West Asheville. They quoted the director of the Pisgah View housing project as saying, “Crime is down and we have gotten some things we wanted, but we are still lacking a pool and a tennis court.” I am NOT making this up!
Also, my brother who does cable installation has to go to that particular project & says it is awful. One time some teeneagers shot his truck & him w/ rubber bullets. He says that in the middle of the afternoon it is crawling w/ people just hanging out and enjoying life. Not working, not gardening to supplement their food, not volunteering; just getting high & looking at people menacingly who come in to do honest work.
My mother would also like a pool. Wait, I forgot, she works for a living. Nix that...........
The same thing is going on around Pittsburgh. Under a court order called the Saunders Decree (out of some lawsuit claiming that putting Section 8 tenants into neighborhoods where there was already a lot of Section 8 housing was somehow racist) the County has actually been forced to buy homes in very nice suburbs and then lease them out to Section 8 tenants.
It is happening in Westchester, NY in one of the wealthiest sections right now.
Time to end all subsidized housing, another Dem scam.
“If the occupants of these homes improve their lives financially, they will be forced to move out.”
Which is precisely why they WON’T improve their lives financially.