[NYC GOP Chick]

I've had friends and a relative live in government subsidized housing (built in the sixties and seventies), and those apartments were way larger than the apartments everyone here is talking about on this thread. I'm really amazed at how it seems that more and more of these tiny little apartments are getting built. Just looking at pictures of them on real estate websites, makes one feel claustrophobic.

Yeah, but aren't most of those place hellholes in dicey neighborhoods? I may pay a lot for my little cell, but it's in a fairly safe neighborhood (more so with the SWAT team, Emergency Services Unit and other NYPD and military units periodically stationed down here), the building has a lot of what they call "amenities" and we have 24-hour doorman service.

[patton]

Lady, you are nuts.

I own two-hundred-plus acres in NY, and pay less per month (about $100/mo, actually).

But it is two hundred miles north of that rathole.

[lowbridge]

Yeah, but aren't most of those place hellholes in dicey neighborhoods?

Yep alot of them are, but the ones my friends and relatives lived in, werent all that bad (at least at the times I've vistied there), and in ot that bad neighborhoods. Not great just average, lower class negihborhood, but not that crime ridden either.

[glory]

Not anymore--you should see what subsidies get you here(my husband has neices on this). 3 bd, 2 bath apart or townhome--it's getting to the point where, like daycare, these folks get a voucher type of thing and can use it at apartments that accept them or apartments are approved directly to take section 8. This has section 8 people in with people actually paying their own way in apartment complexes. At least where I live, there isn't anything formally called the "projects" since section 8 can live anywhere section 8 is accepted, approved, or what have you.