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If it's a single home, I would have zero problem with it. I would offer to help AND welcome the new family.
I wouldn't do either, but more power to you. The problem is it never ends with one home. One becomes two, which becomes three and so one. Before you know it your neighborhood is the equivalent of a housing project.
I wouldn't do either, but more power to you. The problem is it never ends with one home. One becomes two, which becomes three and so one. Before you know it your neighborhood is the equivalent of a housing project.
Must be different in your experience. My experience was a single home built in my community.
I'd burn my neighborhood down before I'd allow Section 8 or Habitat for Humanity to come in and ruin it. People who don't work for the things they have don't appreciate or respect them. My cousin owns several Section 8 apartment buildings and when the families move out the places are completely trashed. The carpets are stained, garbage is everywhere, the walls are covered in crayon and magic marker and the appliances are so filthy they have to be thrown out. If I wanted to live near animals I'd move to the zoo.
Our experience in Chattanooga was the same. Nice, quiet, older neighborhood until HFH came in. Now it's thumping music all hours, dogs barking non-stop, crime, and gangs. Several HFH homeowners arrested for dealing drugs out of their HFH homes. Did they lose the homes for criminal behavior? NO. The empty lots around us were at least quiet and free of crime!
How long were those empty lots there? IF HFH was able to build on them they could not have been too expensive. Perhaps you should have bought them or got some other neighbors together and bought them.
Section 8 and HFH are two COMPLETELY different animals.....
I was thinking the same exact thing. I had a huge chuckle over that post. But after so many pages, if they don't want to educate themselves, who am I to say anything. I support Habitat for Humanity but I don't support lower income or welfare housing.
Have you seen the income requirements for a Habitat Home? They are not that "low" to alarm anyone of a "low poverty, crime ridden" family moving in. In fact it seems almost what the average American is making these days. These families are not being given anything. They work through a sweat equity program to get financed and then pay a regular mortgage like everyone else. Please do some research before you jump to any conclusions. People are so ignorant.....
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