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Hell no. Do you want a bunch of people from the projects being relocated to your neighborhood? If they do away with HUD they have to put these people somewhere. My in-laws beautiful, diverse neighborhood turned into a ghetto after one empty home was converted to low-income housing.
One owner chose to accept a housing voucher and the entire neighborhood turned ghetto?
I lived in a nice area until they started dismantling public housing and moved the people to my neighborhood. The result was low income trash, basically people who didn't want to work, etc. I think public housing should be eliminated but also support cutting section 8 so these pieces of trash can't hurt housing prices or the neighborhood. However, keep section 8 for those who need it and deserve it, like disabled, elderly and working poor.
How did " they" move people to your neighborhood?
Reality is that owners of property made a decision to accept vouchers for part or all of the rent. Some landlords prefer the certainty of a mothly check from the state/ municipal housing authority than the typical renter.
No, I don't think that's a good idea - unless you give them vouchers to help pay for privately-owned housing. But I'm guessing that would cost a good deal more.
That's how housing vouchers work. The housing is privately- owned. The owners decide to accept vouchers or not.
Some counties and/ or municipalities do not allow a landlord to discriminate against tennents on the basis of housing vouchers. There's a million and one ways for a landlord to sidestep this.
Public housing if done right has been proven to be one of the most effective anti poverty programs in history. See Singapore and Utah. The issue is most places are bad at it.
Your state capitol should have a much better grasp of whats going on in your state than D.C.
That assumes your state is run by competent people a mix of idiots, cronies and people who don't understand what the US Constitution actually is and why it applies to them.
What problems was public housing supposed to solve?
A shortage of affordable housing with proximity to jobs.
That's how it began in Detroit. Most of the residents were rural and Appalachian migrants who had been recruited by automakers. Whites were given priority over blacks for jobs and housing at that time.
Nixon appointed George Romney to Secretary of HUD. Romney's administration created the concept of open housing vouchers to enable the poor to live in the same communities as the middle class. It did not go over well at the time.
You have no ****ing clue what you are talking about. Many people on Section 8 work and are normal, everyday people. You probably DO NOT know which homes are inhabited by those on Section 8.
And if I sound angry, its because I am. This wholesale denigration of people in need is disgusting.
There 's Section 8 housing right under people's noses all over the US.
A shortage of affordable housing with proximity to jobs.
That's how it began in Detroit. Most of the residents were rural and Appalachian migrants who had been recruited by automakers. Whites were given priority over blacks for jobs and housing at that time.
And look how it ended in Detroit.
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