[lsee]

If these children already had a bad reputation for causing trouble in the complex, the other residents had recourse to report them and the managers had legal rights and the responsibility to evict them and their families.

Even Section 8 residents have to abide by the lease agreements and their lease can be revoked if these agreements are not followed. If the police are aware of the problems in this complex, it seems that the offending families should have gotten the boot long ago.

It is expensive to evict people, but not as expensive as paying a lawsuit to injured residents because of failure to evict! The problem is, too many of the "good tenants" don't want vindictive family members or friends to hunt them down if they speak up, so they don't...

[jaime1959]

>> The problem is, too many of the "good tenants" don't want vindictive family members or friends to hunt them down if they speak up, so they don't...<<

The problem is we have the Section 8 housing program that functions as a de facto neighborhood destruction program by seeding livable areas with the socially dysfunctional.

[ventana]

With all due respect, what planet are you from? You think it works that easily in the ghetto? V's wife.

[WALLACE212]

What you have stated does not even work in relatively decent apartment complex's, let alone the real Sect.8 places in the big cities. What are they going to do, evict the whole complex, this sin't a few bad apples we are dealing with, its a few million.