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Not sure why a 3 year old thread was revived but please see my post from 3 years ago. This is still the truth. Public housing residents are already checked for criminal background. Public housing residents usually do not commit any crime at all, people they know or who visit them are the ones that cause crime for the most part.
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Originally Posted by residinghere2007
Who cares how hard it is. A DNA test cost at a minimum of $300 per pop.
So now we are going to be Maury Povich in the projects lol.
I thought conservatives were about fiscal responsibility.
I did mention this only a few post ago but will mention it again
PUBLIC HOUSING RESIDENTS RECEIVE A THOROUGH CRIMINAL AND RENTAL BACKGROUND CHECK BEFORE BEING ASSIGNED A UNIT!! THEY GO THROUGH A RE-CERTIFICATION PROCESS ANNUALLY SO THEY ARE ALREADY CHECKED FOR CRIMINALITY.
This is a HUD policy and regardless of what many of you think about HUD, there are audits annually (sometimes more often for problem public housing authorities) where the files of residents are reviewed to ensure that management staff at housing properties are complying with regulations.
Sorry to burst all the bubbles, but really, like I mentioned, the residents - the ones who sign the leases and who are listed on the application, are usually not the people instigating crime at public housing locations.
If you want to start fingerprinting people who might cause crime in the PJs, we need to fingerprint everyone in the country on an annual basis.
Police, military, some people on medical professions, realtors, some financial services jobs are all fingerprinted. Seems to me that fingerprinting people who want to live in govt assisted housing should also be fingerprinted.
It's not insulting or invasive. If you choose not to be fingerprinted, you have the option of living off your own money.
Police, military, some people on medical professions, realtors, some financial services jobs are all fingerprinted. Seems to me that fingerprinting people who want to live in govt assisted housing should also be fingerprinted.
It's not insulting or invasive. If you choose not to be fingerprinted, you have the option of living off your own money.
Guess we should fingerprint those "moochers" on Social Security and Medicare too eh? And considering that nearly everyone ends up on Medicare in their old age, why don't we just go ahead and fingerprint EVERYONE - including all those "moocher" children in PUBLIC schools and state-funded universities.
The cost of deploying and maintaining such a program, the tangential cost of controlling discourse created (police OT assigned to cover 'not fair' protests, perceived extension of institutional racism, etc... These costs would far outweigh any benefit.
Take that money (assuming it already exists) and apply it to common sense programs that could encourage those willing and able to rise out of poverty.
Guess we should fingerprint those "moochers" on Social Security and Medicare too eh? And considering that nearly everyone ends up on Medicare in their old age, why don't we just go ahead and fingerprint EVERYONE - including all those "moocher" children in PUBLIC schools and state-funded universities.
Ken
Silly comment. There should be no Medicare or SS, therefore no need to fingerprint anyone. People should provide for their own health care and retirement and not depend on the fools and crooks in DC to do it for them.
Subsidizing artificially inflates pricing. If people weren't subsidized, housing would NEED to be cheaper. That's a fact which has nothing to do with true competition.
Economics 101.
LOL
During the depression there was no "subsidized housing" so your theory is that housing would be somehow magically cheap enough for everyone. How'd that work out? Oh yeah, Hoovervilles - cardboard shantytowns with no running water, electricity or sanitation - cesspools that can facilitate the spread of diseases that can impact EVERYONE.
Third-world countries today don't have "subsidized housing" so housing is - according to your theory - somehow magically cheap enough for everyone. How's that working out? Oh yeah, cardboard shantytowns with no running water, electricity or sanitation - cesspools that facilitate the spread of diseases that can impact EVERYONE.
That's the difference between THEORY and REALITY - something that folks like you just can't seem to understand. Theory is all well and good, but it's not REAL LIFE.
Making sure that EVERYONE has decent housing is importand for the health and sanitation of EVERYONE - or do you somehow think that you are "magically immune" to diseases spread by the unsanitary conditions of shantytown environments?
Pull your head out of your *ss and look at REAL LIFE - not some stupid "pie in the sky" economic theory that only exists in textbooks.
Geeze!
Silly comment. There should be no Medicare or SS, therefore no need to fingerprint anyone. People should provide for their own health care and retirement and not depend on the fools and crooks in DC to do it for them.
That's the way the Third World works.
How's that working out?
Ken
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