Watch out for Section 8 tenants - coming soon to your apartment building! (to rent, landlords)

[jimsing59]

Originally Posted by sean1the1

I read the main reason the didn't accept was the time it takes for section 8 to inspect an apartment, and they require it to be a certain standard. Meaning the landlord has to update their apartment to be adequate at the last moment.

Yes bringing/keeping your apartment up to HUD code is tough on landlords and offsets the guaranteed monthly payments. The better apartments can and do find good Section 8 clients. The ones they're describing would have credit scores too low to meet their requirements.

[VikingsToValhalla]

Originally Posted by V8 Vega

Thats what happens with a liberal goverment. Keep on voting for Democrats

My thoughts exactly.
This is why I left California...liberal government.

[CaliforniaGal]

Back in 1981, I lived in Redondo Beach w/ my 10 yr old daughter. I was sharing an apartment/rent with my childhood friend and her young son after I separated from my ex husband. My friend decided to move out and in with her boyfriend. I could not afford the entire rent so I signed up for Section 8 in Redondo Beach. I was a good tenant and the landlord accepted it. I was able to stay ~

I will always appreciate that landlord ~ I realize there are those who are NOT responsible and do not take care of someone else's property. Let's not condemn everyone though who ARE responsible and just need a little help so they can get back on their feet.

[2sleepy]

Originally Posted by kttam186290

True.

But you (and the cops) knew where the "war zone" was, you knew who had business there and who shouldn't be there. You knew if you wanted out you had to have your head on straight and take advantage of the myriad programs designed to help you get away from it.

These days, Section 8 has really just destroyed middle class neighborhoods and rewarded slothfulness with a nice suburban dwelling.

And, you're right, there are no easy solutions outside of building one set of housing projects in every single city and suburb and just spreading them out evenly everywhere you can.

69% of housing choice vouchers are held by seniors, children, or people with disabilities. Slothfulness, really?

[Beardown91737]

Originally Posted by kttam186290

True.

But you (and the cops) knew where the "war zone" was, you knew who had business there and who shouldn't be there. You knew if you wanted out you had to have your head on straight and take advantage of the myriad programs designed to help you get away from it.

These days, Section 8 has really just destroyed middle class neighborhoods and rewarded slothfulness with a nice suburban dwelling.

And, you're right, there are no easy solutions outside of building one set of housing projects in every single city and suburb and just spreading them out evenly everywhere you can.

Originally Posted by CaliforniaGal

Back in 1981, I lived in Redondo Beach w/ my 10 yr old daughter. I was sharing an apartment/rent with my childhood friend and her young son after I separated from my ex husband. My friend decided to move out and in with her boyfriend. I could not afford the entire rent so I signed up for Section 8 in Redondo Beach. I was a good tenant and the landlord accepted it. I was able to stay ~

I will always appreciate that landlord ~ I realize there are those who are NOT responsible and do not take care of someone else's property. Let's not condemn everyone though who ARE responsible and just need a little help so they can get back on their feet.

It's hard to make sense of placing affordable housing in affluent communities when many have made the choice to live in communities that they can afford on their current income, plus the fact that the affluent communities tend not to be employment centers.

Originally Posted by 2sleepy

69% of housing choice vouchers are held by seniors, children, or people with disabilities. Slothfulness, really?

Maybe the reference was to the other 31%, and most likely a small subset thereof.

ETA: "children" is actually "families with children"

[oceangaia]

Originally Posted by Beardown91737

It's hard to make sense of placing affordable housing in affluent communities when many have made the choice to live in communities that they can afford on their current income, plus the fact that the affluent communities tend not to be employment centers.

Maybe the reference was to the other 31%, and most likely a small subset thereof.

ETA: "children" is actually "families with children"

As if people with children can't be bad tenants.

[CaliforniaGal]

Originally Posted by Beardown91737

It's hard to make sense of placing affordable housing in affluent communities when many have made the choice to live in communities that they can afford on their current income, plus the fact that the affluent communities tend not to be employment centers.




Maybe the reference was to the other 31%, and most likely a small subset thereof.

ETA: "children" is actually "families with children"

Beardown, North Redondo Beach back in 1981 was hardly affluent. It was filled with apartments and still is.
I started working at 25 yrs old full time in 1979. Again, I was given a chance to continue living where we were - after my childhood friend moved out. I remarried a few years later. The landlord knew me, and knew I was a great tenant - no parties etc just a working mom trying to get by at the time and did not want to take on a roommate. I had a car payment - and again, I was blessed to be given a chance. As time when on- I started making good money and was with the company I was working for - for over 17 yrs.

Again, I was a responsible - good tenant who TOOK care of my apartment at the time.

[Ceece]

Originally Posted by 2sleepy

69% of housing choice vouchers are held by seniors, children, or people with disabilities. Slothfulness, really?

Ya I know of a senior who used section 8 to live in a senior community, and while she was fine on paper it's the family members that hung out there who caused problems, sketchy adult kids crashing with her and entertaining their friends there, and having g'ma babysit for them all the time when she couldn't really handle little kids. Being a senior or having children don't really mean they aren't going to cause problems and don't mean anything in this context.

[2sleepy]

Originally Posted by Ceece

Ya I know of a senior who used section 8 to live in a senior community, and while she was fine on paper it's the family members that hung out there who caused problems, sketchy adult kids crashing with her and entertaining their friends there, and having g'ma babysit for them all the time when she couldn't really handle little kids. Being a senior or having children don't really mean they aren't going to cause problems and don't mean anything in this context.

So according to you all section 8 recipients, even the elderly, aren't worth the "risk", but people without housing vouchers are honest, upright, tidy, responsible and don't have annoying family members?

[TBruno23]

Originally Posted by CaliforniaGal

Let's not condemn everyone though who ARE responsible and just need a little help so they can get back on their feet.

Thank you. It's as though many don't even see those needing help as, well, people. I'm guessing those opposed are the same church-goers who lose their collective minds when someone crosses the border, yet will cross that same border on a mission trip for Instagram validation. I guess people can only be helped when it's not done too close to "what's mine".

Broad strokes, I understand... but then isn't this whole thread??