Posted on 04/04/2014 9:15:54 AM PDT by Drango
Governor Deval Patrick’s administration moved Thursday to stamp out smoking in public housing in Massachusetts.
The Department of Housing and Community Development issued guidelines to the state’s 240 local housing authorities, urging them to develop smoke-free policies for their state-aided public housing units. Such policies would prohibit tenants from smoking in a housing authority’s buildings and apartments.
Local authorities could not ban tenants who smoke, nor could they force a tenant to quit smoking in order to keep their apartment, as long as they do not smoke in any of a housing authority’s buildings or units.
Smoking is allowed in state public housing units, although it is banned in common areas.
Housing Undersecretary Aaron Gornstein said the goal is to protect the health of residents from secondhand smoke; prevent deaths and injuries from smoking-related fires; and reduce the cost of having to scrub away smoke stains, replace carpeting, and clean ductwork and fans when turning over a unit to a nonsmoker.
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Come to NH and reduce the cost of your habit. Keep our taxes low and increase our budget surplus.
Cigarettes are a legal product, so it's a bit overbearing to keep tightening up on where people may use this legal product.
Liberals are continuously looking for more and more restrictions to put on people. Once they get one restriction enacted, they're already working on the next. Where does it stop?
IN is already a buck/pack cheaper than NH.
And we too, have a nice surplus here.
Makes no dif to me anyway, as I’m an ex-smoker.
But if does kinda rub me the wrong way to see some 5’0”, 300 lb, tattooed bleachblond using her EBT to buy her Kingsized Snickers and 44oz Slurpee and then counting out $11.00 worth of change to buy 2 packs of smokes while the line builds behind her
Again, way too much control being shown by our “PUBLIC SERVANTS. /sarc”
That said, if I check in a Motel/Hotel and am PAYING for the room and they tell me I can’t smoke there - Private Property aside, as if you were to ‘question’ the policy, someone would try and cite some City or County Ordinance.
So if the Fed/State/County/City/Town Govt can tell me I can’t allow smoking in my Motel/Hotel or Bar, why would they allow people to smoke in PUBLIC (supported) Housing?
I get it that we shouldn’t be supporting people who waste money on cigarettes. But I’d rather they smoke cigarettes then become addicted to the cheap heroin that’s wreaking so much havoc.
Dump taxpayer funded housing, and kill two birds with one stone. Thanks Drango.
Lord in heaven. For the first time I agree with you. If the people living in public housing don’t like the smoking ban, then move the bleep out! Buy a house and you can smoke as much as you want.
Welfare recipients in general mare poor choice on purchases. Time to stop rewarding their bad behavior.
BUT, before it is halted I would like to see Deval beat on the project doors and tell 300lb., bad attitude, black wefare momma that she can't smoke in her crib.
I hope the cameras are rolling because that film should provide laughs for years.
Time to limit more of their liberty!
bfl
Period.
Don't like it, get off your fat, lazy, government cheese eating cigarette smoking ass and get an f'ing job!
WRONG! If you're living in PUBLIC housing paid for by OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY then those people have every right to tell you what NOT to do in THEIR HOUSE!
Don't like it, get an f'ing job, stop taking OTHER PEOPLE's MONEY and support yourself!
In an example above, that's $540 TAXPAYER DOLLARS WASTED on Cigarettes by a welfare recipient. That same WELARE RECIPIENT is living in PUBLIC HOUSING, paid for by YOU and Me.
Seems to me YOU and I are paying for their Cigarette's AND their house! I think that's wrong. Either cut off their welfare to stop paying for their cigarettes so that they cannot smoke in YOUR and MY house, or kick their asses outta public housing and tell them to find somewhere else to wreck.
If you're living off my money, yes I do have the right to tell you how to live. Don't like it, support yourself. It's that simple.
” WRONG! If you’re living in PUBLIC housing paid for by OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY then those people have every right to tell you what NOT to do in THEIR HOUSE!
Don’t like it, get an f’ing job, stop taking OTHER PEOPLE’s MONEY and support yourself! “
However, this is how I see it.....When the H.A. makes an effort to not let the demographic of renters who TRASH, cook drugs, sell drugs, thug around, allow gaggles of unruly children running around, etc..rent housing, therefore turning them INTO “projects”...then one can cry about “smoking”.
“If you’re living off my money, yes I do have the right to tell you how to live.”
That's not an apples to apples comparison and I suspect you know that.
Having said that, YES the Bank does tell you what your obligations are during the term of the loan. For example: You must maintain adequate PROPERTY INSURANCE in the event of fire for example, either damages or destroys the home your insurance must either (a)put the home back to liveable condition or (b) be sufficient in sum to replace the home (build new) to equivalent value of the loan
You as the borrower are also required to pay PROPERTY TAXES (if required in the state which the loan is issued) either through ESCROW payments included with your mortgage payment or providing proof of payment each year to the bank.
So YES, a bank DOES tell you what you MUST DO during the term of the loan.
” I support drug testing to qualify for all welfare such as housing, food stamps, and AFDC. By extension, people spending money on cigarettes while their hand is in the public’s pocket is not something I support.”
YES, banks specify what your obligations are for ANY LOAN that they issue. They're called Terms & Conditions.
You'd know this if you ever borrowed money from a bank.
You're telling other people what they can/cannot do in order to live in public housing! How's that different from what I stated?
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