My experience with Section 8 housing was less than optimal. Lived in an apt complex right after college. Nothing special, lower middle class, blue collar, but adequate and safe. Typical 20-something bachelor pad.
Then the apt complex went section 8. Literally within weeks, it was dammed near uninhabitable. I couldn't break my lease and get out quickly enough.
Scuttlebutt is that the PTB involved with this particular trendy, upscale urban revitalization have done a number of things that aren't strictly legal to mitigate potential disaster due to the Section 8 requirement, but they aren't going to be prosecuted, because there is some very big Democrat money invested. When dirty work needs to be done, there are always some "clean and articulate" tools willing to be used and compensated.
Mr. niteowl77
We have a FReeper from Ferguson who said that Section 8 was the destruction of what had formerly been a nice town.
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