[Flying Circus]

I know this place from when I went to school at MU. Virtually all of the residents are disabled or elderly. These aren't the kind of people who can get jobs.

[sarasmom]

I have a job and I cant afford cable!
I had an elderly friend who lived in this type of housing complex for the last four years of her life.
She had worked her entire life,raised three kids, and none of them w(c)ould take her in, after she became completely disabled.If she were alive today,she probably would have been a blogger, and a frequent poster on forums such as FR.
I was never clear on why she lived in public housing, one of the three adult children made six figures.It is possible she refused to become a "burden" to them, or it might have impacted her Medicare of Social Security.I truly do not know.
They all visited her often,and they paid for her "extra's" like cable TV and phone bills.She read voraciously,as her only outings consisted of monthly grocery shopping and library visits. She was truly disabled, and became "obese" due to complications of the medications that prolonged her life.
I loved her very much.
That said, she would have been absolutely enraged about this situation.It is one thing to be in need of assistance for basic neccessities, which she considered paid for in advance in the form of lifelong SS taxes on her meager income.It is quite another to "demand or expect" luxury items.
Cable TV is a luxury item, as is internet access.