Posted on 08/30/2014 8:07:47 AM PDT by campg
There are no legitimate "market forces" when the US feral government is pulling the strings.
That sheds a different light on the problem. A video was posted on FR some months ago about a home that was utterly destroyed by a section 8 tenant. Such destruction impacts
the value of nearby properties. Those property owners have rights too. I say that as one who is renting out my family home.
“This is about Section 8 housing “
We have a winner.
Bingo!
Too many rental properties = ghetto in a couple years!
Years ago, when we sold our house in town to a ner-do-well couple, one of the first things she told her kids was...”Now don’t tear this place up! We own THIS house.”
I went by it not long ago. It is the sore thumb of that neighborhood.
A friend in California rented his house to a family. When they left, the house was trashed. He found the toilet was stopped up, so that family had knocked a hole in the closet floor and used the crawl space beneath as a pit toilet.
Then there was the people near here who rented apartments. One day one of the tenants was arrested and is in jail. The owners had to bring in a roll off trash container as the house was full of trash. All the drywall had to be removed, and basically rebuilt from the ground up.
Some people are just “White-Trash”. (Opps! Is that racis?)
How conservative. NOT.
/johnny
Where did I say that? Straw man much?
/johnny
Stable owner occupied homes means the area isn’t likely to turn into a ghetto soon. That is just a fact.
If an area has too many rental units in relation to owner occupied homes, the property values will crash. That is also a fact.
Property rights also extend to those that don’t want section 8 to turn their neighborhood into a ghetto.
I refuse to live in or close to any city, or anywhere that has public transportation for exactly that reason.
I hope there was a lawsuit to collect damages and a big deposit to recoup some losses. Being a Landlord/property owner can be such fun and full of enrichment;-) and yes that was racist. Shame on you.
The danger with zoning laws is that gives the property rights to the government. I have seen some rather horrid zoning laws banning everything from the color of the door to the house to how many children a family may have (yes, that was a zoning law, not a HOA code).
While I understand not wanting to import the ghetto, taking away property rights of the owners is a very dangerous precedent.
“The danger with zoning laws is that gives the property rights to the government.”
I can see restrictions on the number of rental unit properties in a city/neighborhood, and don’t see it as taking property rights.
If it’s a single family home, you can live in it, sell it, or rent it.
What you couldn’t do is buy up a bunch of big old houses and make 2-3 apartments in each one. All that does is create section 8 ghetto.
Redlining is illegal and so is refusing section 8, the only option left is limiting rental units, or giving up and letting the ghetto take over.
Section 8 means it ain’t a free market anymore.
Mr. niteowl77
I know. The liberals blame Detoilet on whites for moving out. They are admitting to being parasites, but blaming the hosts for avoiding them.
“I refuse to live in or close to any city, or anywhere that has public transportation for exactly that reason.”
That is bull****.
Some of the priciest towns in my area,Eastern Ma,are much in demand because of the public transportation.
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Live in some craphole city if you want. Ride a bus with seats covered with diseases they don’t even have names for yet. Enjoy your liberal ghetto.
Your last sentence nailed it.
We no longer have the right to free association.
When I lived in a large US city, there was an interesting way around it. I lived in a complex where you had to have a recommendation to get into. Since I didn’t know that, or any place to live, I went to a relocation specialist my company set up for me.
I didn’t notice it at first, but that system worked rather well.
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