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I am disable with mental disability and i have Section 8. I need a building with an elevator and i want to live in a good area because i need to feel comfortable. I want to go to school for computer science and i am 39 years old. I need help. I don't like the ghetto areas. I want to live somewhere safe because i am a paraonoid schizophrenic and i need to live somewhere i feel safe. Please let me know if anybody can help.
There are much better places to live on section 8 in this country with your condition than NYC, too stressful! There is chill low income housing in Laguna Beach California a couple blocks from the beach, They give priority to disabled, Hagan Place and Vista Aliso apartments, There is also a free clinic nearby.
You didn't say WHERE you were looking exactly. NYC or NJ? First off, in NYC the "ghetto areas" you speak of were the main neighborhoods that excepted section 8 tenants, and now with gentrification going on, those apartments are dwindling even in said "ghetto" areas. You may have some luck in NJ.
You didn't say WHERE you were looking exactly. NYC or NJ? First off, in NYC the "ghetto areas" you speak of were the main neighborhoods that excepted section 8 tenants, and now with gentrification going on, those apartments are dwindling even in said "ghetto" areas. You may have some luck in NJ.
Oh, those apartments are not at all dwindling in Brownsville, East New York, North Bronx, and other really bad areas. The OP will easily find places to stay in those neighborhoods (they are getting even worse). Staten Island is undergoing ghettoization in part as more program people move there.
OP, there's other kinds of low income housing that can be found in nice neighborhoods (but getting in will be tight). You might try applying to 80/20s or LAMPS.
It's impossible to get a Section 8 apartment in a decent area or halfway decent year. Sorry, that's just how that goes.
Oh, those apartments are not at all dwindling in Brownsville, East New York, North Bronx, and other really bad areas. The OP will easily find places to stay in those neighborhoods (they are getting even worse). Staten Island is undergoing ghettoization in part as more program people move there.
OP, there's other kinds of low income housing that can be found in nice neighborhoods (but getting in will be tight). You might try applying to 80/20s or LAMPS.
It's impossible to get a Section 8 apartment in a decent area or halfway decent year. Sorry, that's just how that goes.
I agree- that is what I am saying. For example- as Bed-Stuy became "hot", a lot of those apartments dried up. Bed-Stuy has both good and bad areas but most of Brownsville, ENY and parts of the Bronx are really bad. This guy is saying he is too paranoid for really bad.
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