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From my countless calls I receive, many of the Section 8 calls I get are people from the east African regions. They are looking for 3-4+ bedrooms, one wanted a 6+ bedroom place. It is not unusual for them to tell me they have 5-6 children.
I do not take S8 any longer, and I have heard that the tenants have to call literally 100s of numbers to get a LL that does take S8. Maybe that was an exaggeration, but I have asked several people that have inquired, and they all say it is hard to find a LL in a good area that wants it.
Refugees are basically here permanently, and I believe that they get a S8 voucher right away. No waiting. Most have limited skills. I have seen many that work as taxi drivers and truck drivers. They always have the option to go back to their homeland on their own, but until the country is deemed safe, even illegal immigrants cannot be deported to that country.
Some counties even pay for car insurance if the people need a car to get to and from work.
They have to be here for at least a year before they can apply for legal permanent residence. Then, they have to go through that process, which can be lengthy, before they get approved.
Of course, the OP has disappeared. But, the story that they are new immigrants doesn't make sense, as far as them also having a HUD voucher. Smells fishy.
Don't think so. The Section 8 list is maintained by local housing authorities. There would appear to be no mechanism for refugees to cut in front of the line. Our local wait list has not been opened in a decade. So you would have to have lived here a decade ago to even be on it.
There may be an arrangement to allow access to local public housing. But that is not Section 8.
But they were citizens, right? The OP was saying the tenants were new immigrants who had a Section 8 voucher. It just didn't make sense to me.
It happens all the time. I think the Feds open new 'slots', based on the number of new immigrants/refugees. It may not make sense to you, but 100% it happens.
I see it first hand, dozens of times on every vacancy I have.
New refugees receive a federal grant of no more than $1,125 to help pay for rent, furnishings, food and other expenses in their first three months of arrival. A small number can opt into a federal program that covers more early expenses, with a push to find a job within four months. The rest rely on public assistance programs to supplement federal dollars.
Few federally and state-funded programs here track refugee status. There’s no way to glean refugee use of unemployment insurance, MNsure insurance subsidies, Section 8 vouchers and state-run housing subsidy programs, among others. The state does not know how many refugee students enroll in public schools.
Fair or not, I would not rent to Section 8 tenants. My condo is too nice and I've found that people don't treat things well if they aren't paying for them (or paying full price for things). Of course there are exceptions, but I don't want to take what I consider to be an added, unnecessary risk.
The following are the requirements. Now, before anyone turns this into an immigration debate, these are people who have already gone through the system and have been officially granted a particular status by our government, not those seeking or claiming it.
U.S. citizens.
Persons lawfully admitted for permanent residence.
Persons granted refugee or asylum status because of persecution, or fear of persecution, on account of race, nationality, religion, political opinion, or membership in a particular social group.
Persons granted “parole status” by the U.S. Attorney General for emergent or public interest reasons.**Parole is a procedure which allows a noncitizen to come into the United States without being granted official admission status.
Persons granted withholding of deportation or removal. These persons are lawfully present because the U.S. Attorney General has withheld deportation/removal because of a threat to life or freedom in their country of origin.
Persons granted temporary residence under the general amnesty provisions of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 based on having resided in the U.S. since before January 1, 1982.
Persons qualifying as victims of trafficking because they have been subject to a severe form of trafficking in persons such as sex trafficking, involuntary servitude, debt bondage, peonage, or slavery.
Right? How is it that a credit report is "unfixable". That's impossible.
Heck depending on Statue of limitations and other rules....
Everything should fall off your credit report in 7 years...
Now I know there are gazallions of exceptions for stuff "falling off your credit report", but 7 years is a good starting point for researching credit reporting.
The following are the requirements. Now, before anyone turns this into an immigration debate, these are people who have already gone through the system and have been officially granted a particular status by our government, not those seeking or claiming it.
U.S. citizens.
Persons lawfully admitted for permanent residence.
Persons granted refugee or asylum status because of persecution, or fear of persecution, on account of race, nationality, religion, political opinion, or membership in a particular social group.
Persons granted “parole status” by the U.S. Attorney General for emergent or public interest reasons.**Parole is a procedure which allows a noncitizen to come into the United States without being granted official admission status.
Persons granted withholding of deportation or removal. These persons are lawfully present because the U.S. Attorney General has withheld deportation/removal because of a threat to life or freedom in their country of origin.
Persons granted temporary residence under the general amnesty provisions of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 based on having resided in the U.S. since before January 1, 1982.
Persons qualifying as victims of trafficking because they have been subject to a severe form of trafficking in persons such as sex trafficking, involuntary servitude, debt bondage, peonage, or slavery.
Huh. Thanks. I found the document by using your info above to search Google:
In case anyone else wants to actually read the whole thing. Sorry to go off on a tangent, but since I actually have a HUD voucher and was asked to prove my citizenship, I thought it was a requirement. Maybe they just asked me if I was a citizen, and so there was no need to mention anything else. That seems to make the most sense.
Thanks for the info. Always like learning new things.
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