Unfortunately Howard County Maryland passed a law making it illegal to reject these people directly(but they can still do credit checks.) This has wrecked the apartments.
This is exactly what will make the program work. Require the Section 8 recipient to pay a large >50 % proportion of their rent. Only the motivated will take advantage of the program. When taxpayers pay the entire rent there is no ownership or motivation for the recipient to value the rental unit. Libs are clueless.
Why don't you caring liberals take in these people? You can rent them a room instead of using 'our' money to wreck our neighborhoods.
"Next Store?" Are you sure you don't mean "next door?"
Yup. The voucher program has destroyed one neighborhood after another.
I think all libs should be sentenced to live next door to a section 8 rental.
Long term assistance ONLY for disabled and elderly.
I don't think they should live in stores.
Section 8 is being cut? Good.
But what is being done about the HUD home ownership program? Bush administration implemented that, and now my folks have to live next to ex-cons and drug addicts who "own" their home (subsidized by taxpayers) and cannot be kicked out, even when they harrass their neighbors.
I'm waiting for that to be cut.
Oooh, its popular, can't touch it now.
If the Baltimore Sun wants Federal programs to be popular, the program should be converted to driving around blighted neighborhoods and throwing wads of cash to the clamoring throngs. That would be popular, and be essentially the same thing as Section 8, but with a lot less administrative cost.
Um, because the same liberals penned zoning and tax laws that make it extremely difficult?
Just a guess. ;-)
Excellent point.
My in-laws have a fairly large stock (> 30) of rental properties that could be characterized as lower-working-class in nature. They built up this little nest egg through hard work and thrift over many years, as sort of a second "job" along with working full-time jobs in the medical care field (hospital lab manager and nurse, now both retired from those roles, still have the rental properties).
They were always very careful on checking out the background of potential renters, and always stayed away from getting involved in Section 8.
Smart people, my in-laws. Did I mention they are life-long Republicans?
I used to run a very large apartment complex that was trying to get rid of the last of it's Section 8 tenants. What a pain in the rear they were. We had one family that paid less than $100 for a $900 apartment and the kids would punch holes in all the doors, holes in the walls, tear up and destroy the carpet, cabinets, and practically everything else and the withhold their portion of the rent and we couldn't get the government portion until WE fixed the apartment. This happened over and over again for years.
The kids from this same family almost burnt their building up because she left the kids at home and they were playing with matches. We still couldn't get them out even after all that. The court looked after the tenants and let the landlords twist in the wind, backed up entirely by the state.
My wife was a property manager for a bunch of apartements in the Seattle area few years ago. One of them was probably 50% Section 8. There was one lady who paid $3 a month in rent. THREE DOLLARS! She would drive up in her Acura and pay with a $3 money order.
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
It has helped millions of low-income families live in affordable housing that meets federal living standards, and helped the federal government ease the national housing crisis by allowing housing authorities to use the private housing market.<<<
It is not the Governments job to help the poor with MY MONEY. CHARITY Should be voluntary ONLY. Housing programs funded with tax dollars are unconstitutional.
I'm familiar first hand with this situation. My Dad lived off of Section 8 funds for years. That was after he sponged off of relatives for close to 20 years. My Grandmother died and he had to go on welfare. There wasn't anything wrong with him, other than being epileptic(medically controlled) and some bursitis. He just didn't want to work. At long as he had someone else taking care of him, he wasn't about to lift a finger.
Does anyone know if illegals can get Sect. 8 assistance or something like that from the feds or stategov?
Maybe this was an isolated incident, but when I perceive that my kids are in danger, I don't care about the 'odds.' I only want safety.
Or (gasp!) get a job.
If the Baltimore Sun thinks it's a good program, you can bet it's a big government money transfer from taxpayers to taxtakers.
She wasn't even close to being the worst tenant I have had, but I was happy to see her leave and I don't intend on renting to any more section 8 tenants.