$400 million plus a year just in Chicago. Six million people in Chicago. Sounds like $2 billion a year nationwide plus admin costs, so that’s another $2 billion.
The landlord won’t be laughing when he sees the condition of his property when his section eight tenant moves out. 100 k won’t pay for the damage.
Typical socialist program.
MISSION CREEP
“Public Housing” was originally sold to the public as a program to provide basic temporary housing to people temporarily down on their luck.
The assumption was that they soon would find work, regain their independance and move out of public housing.
Now we have fourth or fifth generational family dynasties of professional moochers who have never lived in a home that wasn’t paid for by taxpayers.
And they get indignant if they aren’t provided accommodations equal to those of homeowners who pay their own way.
Like all other government programs - the more you provide for free, the larger the constituency will grow.
Four grand a month...
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I read part of the article...amazing - simply amazing.
Based on the attitudes of the people in that article, that city is doomed to Detroit’s fate.
If you live in Chicago, sell everything and leave; a locust swarm of entitlled feral humans and their Dhimmicrat enablers has descended on your city. It is doomed.
Yet another consequence of our Federal Reserve and massive debt supporting the nanny-state.
Read through every such article, from Germany’s intake of 1 million illiterate Muslims to free tampons for NY City school girls, and you will see the root of it all - our corrupted, centrally-planned monetary system.
If Lai had good luck with this program, Section 8 going by a different name, he is very lucky. A house in my neighborhood was rented out under Section 8. The people renting it totally trashed the house inside, leaving it as a shell. All the floors were destroyed, the walls smashed in, the appliances stolen. And Section 8 made it close to impossible for the landlord to get rid of them, claiming all the while that the tenants were fine. It took over 2 years to get rid of them. Meanwhile, the landlord was left with tens of thousands of dollars of repairs. The rent money during that entire time did not come close to paying for all the damages.
Why work? Vote Democrat!