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MN Housing Board to Pay Monthly Rent for Migrants Traveling Back to East Africa
Gateway Pundit ^ | October 1,2016 | Jim Hoft

Posted on 10/01/2016 11:33:06 AM PDT by Hojczyk

The move was sought by local East African immigrants. Immigrants traveling for 30 to 90 days could apply for a hardship which will reduce their rent to $75 a month while they are gone. The Star Tribune reported:

Public housing residents in Minneapolis will no longer need to pay their normal monthly rent when travel abroad erases their income, a change particularly sought by East African immigrants.

The board of the Minneapolis Public Housing Authority approved this week reverting to its previous policy of collecting only minimal rent during extended absences. The change takes effect once approved by federal housing officials, which is expected by year’s end.

Abdi Warsame, a City Council member, told the board that the policy in place for the past five years works a particular hardship on elderly East Africans who must save for long periods if they want to visit their homelands. He said that many receive federal Supplemental Security Income, which is halted when the recipient is outside the United States.

Yet the policy required people to keep paying rent, which is income-based. Travelers gone for 30 to 90 days could apply for a hardship, which meant that they paid the minimum $75 monthly rent during their absence, but were required to make up the difference between that and their normal rent over the next year or two.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government
KEYWORDS: africa; immigrants; migrants; minneapolis; minnesota; mn; publichousing
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1 posted on 10/01/2016 11:33:06 AM PDT by Hojczyk
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To: Hojczyk

Were fools for working


2 posted on 10/01/2016 11:33:37 AM PDT by Hojczyk
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To: Hojczyk

Where are they getting the money for plane fare and extended vacations?


3 posted on 10/01/2016 11:35:07 AM PDT by PTBAA
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To: Hojczyk

This is so wrong.


4 posted on 10/01/2016 11:35:41 AM PDT by Lopeover (2016 Election is about allegiance to the United States!)
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To: advertising guy

PING—Get a load of THIS crap!!

We are bigger fools for permitting these asshats to be elected, and these other asshats migrating here!!


5 posted on 10/01/2016 11:36:45 AM PDT by MagUSNRET
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To: Hojczyk

Just HOW did the US of A get SO effed up?


6 posted on 10/01/2016 11:37:46 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Hojczyk

And these ‘people’ are traveling back to their, ‘homeland’ to do what, exactly?

We’re So Screwed.


7 posted on 10/01/2016 11:38:00 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set!)
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To: Hojczyk

Wait, immigrants are getting supplemental social security??


8 posted on 10/01/2016 11:38:50 AM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: Hojczyk

If you are an immigrant, THIS is your homeland.


9 posted on 10/01/2016 11:41:16 AM PDT by USMCPOP (Father of LCpl. Karl Linn, KIA 1/26/2005 Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq)
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To: Hojczyk

I bet many of these people are here as “refugees”, they got in because they feared for their life in their homeland.

Not if they go back for vacation.
Cancel their green cards and let them stay there.


10 posted on 10/01/2016 11:42:06 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam , Know Peace)
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To: Hojczyk

Round ‘em up and move ‘em out!

Deport all of the slime.


11 posted on 10/01/2016 11:43:25 AM PDT by x1stcav (Leftism is like rust: It corrodes 24 hours a day until eradicated.)
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To: Hojczyk

Gee, can I get the taxpayers to fund my vacation?

Haven’t had one in years, working too hard to pay all the taxes.


12 posted on 10/01/2016 11:44:15 AM PDT by Regulator
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To: Hojczyk

This seems fair. I remember hearing stories of all the Irish heading back home to check on their potato fields. /sarc


13 posted on 10/01/2016 11:44:59 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

“... traveling back to their, ‘homeland’ to do what, exactly?”

To fetch their three other wives and get them signed up for welfare.
Just like the refugees in Europe.

Can you imagine Jews fleeing Nazi Germany but returning for a vacation every so often?


14 posted on 10/01/2016 11:46:37 AM PDT by Zuse (I am disrupted! I am offended! I am insulted! I am outraged!)
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To: Hojczyk

Absolute rubbish! Don’t try this if you are white and born in America. Effing scumbags.


15 posted on 10/01/2016 11:48:10 AM PDT by soycd
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

“Just HOW did the US of A get SO effed up?”

Bush. Clinton. Bush. Obama.

When you have a string of Presidents and their lackeys dedicated to replacing the historic American people with aliens this is what you get.

Welcome to the brave new world.


16 posted on 10/01/2016 11:55:00 AM PDT by Pelham (DLM. Deplorable Lives Matter)
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To: Regulator

You mean your county doesn’t lower your property tax for the time while you are away?


17 posted on 10/01/2016 11:55:48 AM PDT by hanamizu
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To: Hojczyk

Why are the governments so desperate to take care of these people?


18 posted on 10/01/2016 11:57:23 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: Menehune56
Re: “Wait, immigrants are getting supplemental social security??”

Oh, yeah.

Once an immigrant gets legal status in the USA, like a Green Card, he can apply to bring in every person in his immediate family.

The process can take years, but once your elderly parents arrive, they are eligible for SSI and Medicaid and every other benefit a natural born citizen can get.

This is not new. It was in effect in 1984, during Reagan’s presidency, although I imagine the number of people using it was much smaller.

And Medicaid

19 posted on 10/01/2016 11:58:53 AM PDT by zeestephen
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To: Hojczyk

Hey. It is expensive to attend Radical Islamic Jihad School in Somalia.

I am so pleased the Minnesota taxpayers are paying for the Somalians schooling or maybe it is simply a vacation trip to see their fellow Radical Islamic Jihadists.

(sarc)


20 posted on 10/01/2016 11:59:24 AM PDT by Presbyterian Reporter
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