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LOL..it's not "Obama's plan". It's been a plan of HUD for a long time.
The voucher system is relatively new and in some cases local laws need to be passed regarding discriminating against Sec 8 applicants.
As part of its endless quest to fundamentally transform the United States, the Obama administration is laying the intellectual groundwork for a massive new government program: moving crime-prone tenants of public housing into middle- and upper middle-class neighborhoods in the name of improving their health.
From what I've read, those whites and blacks are all upper middle class folks.
Some people don't seem to believe this exists.
I'm sure some see me and my family at our home and assume we're receiving government assistance for the groceries I haul in, our house, etc. It's not possible that we just have decent incomes.
I very much do.
HOA can refuse to allow Section 8 voucher recipients to move into the community, as can the landlords, and they most often do in neighborhoods such as that one.
That must be location dependent because the HOA communities here are finding out that they can't refuse a Section 8 tenant.
Having said that, none of the ones here, that I work with, have oversight of approving prospective renters.
Hell, we have one complex that was built during the boom, condos, where the buy in was $650K and up (highest closed price I saw was $980K). They didn't sell and now most of the units (40 out of 47, those 7 are owner occupied) are renters with over 1/2 that 40 being Section 8.
I'd like to see where the evidence of them being on Section 8 is, especially considering a quick glance at homes in that neighborhood show houses in the $300,000 range.
Section 8 housing does not put people in expensive family homes in HOA-run communities.
I have a neighbor with a section 8 subsidy. I live in a community of mid $400,000 to mid $500,000 homes and am on the HOA board, so it does happen. We have about half a dozen Section 8 tenants in the development.
He pays $178 a month to live here - per his claim, obviously I can't verify it, but have no reason to disbelieve him. Most mortgages run between $1600-$2100 and there is an additional HOA fee of between $350-$425 depending on property size.
Oh, and we have a community pool and clubhouse that can be contracted for events.
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