Posted on 06/18/2015 4:31:18 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
In Los Angeles, it is expensive to rent and, unsurprisingly, rentals are scarce.
If you want to live here, you have to live further out from the city center.
It happens a lot in “Dog Town”, a run down area by the river populated mostly by Mexicans.
But Dog Town is slated for gentrification becasue it’s affordable now.
Just more complaining to get the Section 8 allotments up. More money, more money......
Bingo. I’d love for O’Keefe to do an investigation on how many new Section 8/HUD related allotments have been issued, in suburban areas, in the last two - six years. For housing and apartments.
Let’s see....we get to buy their groceries, their healthcare, their phones, their cars, their housing....what’s left? Why get off of your, er, couch...if it’s all handed to you?
There are over 50 programs for retraining workers and they can move to low rent parts of the country
None springs to mind for me. (BTW, I'm a 69 year Boston resident.)
Maybe there wasn't much residential in the Seaport District, but in the early 60s there were plenty of small (maybe tiny would be a better word) businesses there (at least one sued in the 80s -- I didn't get on the jury, but I was called for jury duty but not selected) -- I had an after school job in that area. I don't recall what was there before the Convention Center -- my point was that it was a union boondoggle; from what I read, state-financed convention centers, like state-financed sports arenas, are always a loss to the taxpayers.
Charlestown was yuppified while Southie was still having a rash of arson fires in the early 80s, some vacant buildings, others apparently to get rid of tenants the easy way.
I suspect the only lesson learned from the West End was to try not to do it so crudely.
Please understand something...I do NOT, by any means, condone those who’s sole reason for existence is the ‘gibsmedat’ attitude. However, there are SOME out there who use Section 8 in a LEGITIMATE way to afford the housing they need.
Not all Section 8 people are lazy, shiftless, jobless ne’er-do-wells who just sit around getting free stuff all day. There are some who are fully employed who just do not make enough to afford to pay full-price rentals or buy a home.
Sure, the standard FR reply is “get a better job”. For some, that is NOT an option. The better jobs go to people employers WANT to hire. If you’re black or an older white person, they don’t want you.
Second standard reply “well, get a second or third job”. You have to be able to SLEEP sometime. You can’t work 18 to 20 hours a day.
What I’m saying is...Section 8 has a real and legitimate purpose. Don’t judge everyone on the program as useless ‘gibsmedats’....SOME-maybe a small number, but they’re there...are hard-working people who use it to get affordable, decent housing...and they don’t tear up the houses before they leave, either.
I have quite a few relatives that have done very well for themselves by selling their homes in South Boston in recent years. I am still kicking myself for not buying a 3 family for $225K back in 1996 on N street.
LOL - good point. A few million extra people competing for the same number of apartments just might effect the price of housing.
FYI the word is ‘razed’.
thanks
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