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.
There are thousands of these stories from both landlords who thought they’d get easy money and those who were coerced; they almost all end the way yours do. Trying to get rid of the leeches was an absolute nightmare and sometimes they got really desperate. I read of at least one landlord was suspected of arson when his Sec-8 apartment burned to the ground after months of appeals failed...unfortunately one of the roaches’ illegitimate babies died in the fire so it’s also a homicide case. :(
The ONLY landlord I ever heard of who got off good in the end had an arrangement where almost only retirement-aged people were moved in, and since they were too old/decrepit to do much damage he made out sweet. The residents were almost to the last person bilking local/state/federal governments for a ton of different benefits, but that’s another story.