[Sqibbcakes]

In all your years here, even you (probably not) should know that the MAJORITY of crime in the tourist corridor goes unreported. But its not bad crime, its the fun loving kind of crime. And yes, a 100 yard area of the boulevard that has seen numerous mass murders is indeed a safe and fun area. By the way drugs were not lekeishas problem, she was stressed out.

[BBMW]

Okay, remembered the incident, forgot her name.

Any well know tourist are is susceptible to that kind of attack. She wasn't a local. She just happened to be in Vegas when she chose to lose it.

Originally Posted by Sqibbcakes

Let's see if I got this right. You don't live here, you don't know who Lekeisha is, but you want to post how safe LVBS is?

[kttam186290]

Originally Posted by C_A_Braun

I am sure that California Prop 47 as well as California's Prisoner Realignment Program are both having an impact on the crime rate in Las Vegas.

No, actually, the amount of Section 8 rentals now available throughout the Las Vegas Valley are!

[lvoc]

Originally Posted by kttam186290

No, actually, the amount of Section 8 rentals now available throughout the Las Vegas Valley are!

Section 8 rentals are very scarce anywhere in the nicer valley and Section 8 has not been open in the Valley for years.

[kttam186290]

Originally Posted by lvoc

Section 8 rentals are very scarce anywhere in the nicer valley and Section 8 has not been open in the Valley for years.

Delude yourself much?

It doesn't matter if it's "open" or not. All someone has to do is enroll in the program in say, San Bernardino County or L.A. County, and then they can bring their voucher to Clark County, present it to the landlord and then the landlord turns it into the county housing authority. That's it! This happens because Section 8 vouchers are now portable and can be taken anywhere in the U.S.

No standing in line, no waiting list, no backlogs, etc. Go to another county, apply, and then come to Las Vegas and find a landlord willing to rent...and that is exactly what's happened and brought all of the problems to your city.

When the economy tanked, tons of foreign investors from China and Saudi Arabia came and gobbled up tons of foreclosed houses all over the valley for cheap, including many in Green Valley and Summerlin South. This happened in the suburbs of L.A., Phoenix and Miami too, but it was really, really bad in Las Vegas because of the enormous glut of available housing. These foreign and out-of-state investors used rental agencies, and most of these agencies greenlighted Section 8 tenants. Another scam is foreigners, and even locals like Michelle Fiore (your state assemblywoman), buying houses and using them as in-home health care services to warehouse sick and elderly people.

Nice, new stuccoed homes in suburban tracts weren't meant to house Section 8 derelicts or be used as boarding homes for the elderly, but they are now, and it is taking a toll on the quality of life in Las Vegas.

[lvoc]

Originally Posted by kttam186290

Delude yourself much?

It doesn't matter if it's "open" or not. All someone has to do is enroll in the program in say, San Bernardino County or L.A. County, and then they can bring their voucher to Clark County, present it to the landlord and then the landlord turns it into the county housing authority. That's it! This happens because Section 8 vouchers are now portable and can be taken anywhere in the U.S.

No standing in line, no waiting list, no backlogs, etc. Go to another county, apply, and then come to Las Vegas and find a landlord willing to rent...and that is exactly what's happened and brought all of the problems to your city.

When the economy tanked, tons of foreign investors from China and Saudi Arabia came and gobbled up tons of foreclosed houses all over the valley for cheap, including many in Green Valley and Summerlin South. This happened in the suburbs of L.A., Phoenix and Miami too, but it was really, really bad in Las Vegas because of the enormous glut of available housing. These foreign and out-of-state investors used rental agencies, and most of these agencies greenlighted Section 8 tenants. Another scam is foreigners, and even locals like Michelle Fiore (your state assemblywoman), buying houses and using them as in-home health care services to warehouse sick and elderly people.

Nice, new stuccoed homes in suburban tracts weren't meant to house Section 8 derelicts or be used as boarding homes for the elderly, but they are now, and it is taking a toll on the quality of life in Las Vegas.

First off you have to find an open Section 8 wait list in CA. Then you have to wait. Then you have to wait another year to be portable. Then you can come to LV to find that most LL won't deal with you.

The above should take someplace between 5 and 15 years...if you are lucky.

There were a number of people who bought in to reasonably nice neighborhoods in the crash. However they continue to do the calcualtion and have begun to bail out in massive numbers. The availability of rentals in nice communities is going down...and fast...not up.

There were never any large pool of foreign investors in LV. The biggest deal were a lot of asians from LA who saw the opportunity jumped in, scored, jumped out and moved on to TX...where they did it again.

You really need to get a better story. Some of us were here in those days.

And I would also note the standard Section 8 client in LV tends to be old and white.

[kttam186290]

You must either be:

A.) a real estate agent
B.) a member of the Chamber of Commerce
C.) in serious denial about what's going on...
or,
D.) all of the above

Between 2010 and 2014, there were tons of listings for Section8-approved rentals on GoSection8-dot-com! And, guess what, there still are! These are just publicly listed places that take vouchers, but many privately listed properties do too.

I'm not making this up. If someone did some research, they'd likely find a direct correlation in the crime rate escalating and the time many homes became rental properties.

[EA]

Originally Posted by kttam186290

You must either be:

A.) a real estate agent
B.) a member of the Chamber of Commerce
C.) in serious denial about what's going on...
or,
D.) all of the above

A and c.

[Clarkcty]

In my sister's neighborhood in the NW, the house next to her is investor owned and being rented by a single black female who works at 7-11 with a few kids living with her.

Imagine that, working at 7-11 and living in a house in a decent neighborhood in the NW. No Im not racist but telling it like it is.

Investor owned properties are ruining communities in any part of Clark County. Im dealing with an investor owned property whose loser tenants are seriously degrading my quality of life. Dopers, high traffic and worse these people think they are entitled! No class, no shame, total lack of respect for the neighborhood and the community. These people see me sweeping the area and they will not hesitate to throw garbage on the ground. They spit, they throw cigarrettes over the balcony.....

[mojavedxer]

Originally Posted by EA

A and c.

That is a big yes for sure, the wait for section 8 in Santa Barbara is about 6 months on the average. It's easy to qualify for as a single working professional making 60K and under for partial rent reduction vouchers. Just about every apartment complex in the city accepts it because the money is green and the problematic section 8 renters usually live in public section 8 housing because of the high rents in the city.