A friend of mine has seen this first hand. The apartment complex he lives in has gone from a relatively upscale yuppie enclave to a near slum, and it has happened in direct proportion to the number of Section 8 residents that have moved in.
While he has at times struggled to pay rent and avoid being evicted, he has encountered Section 8 residents that have bragged, “They won’t throw us out cause we Section 8.” And they’re right. His management company has tried to rent to as many Section 8 folks as possible because (as they have admitted to him privately) “the government always pays.”
To add insult to injury, his rent keeps going up because the complex is 100% leased, in large part because of a government policy that results in responsible renters having to compete with government-subsidized leeches. Sound familiar?
It goes on in every Iowa city, and even some smaller towns. The urban landlords are subsidized now, just like the farmers have been for years. Anyone who doesn't think Iowa is now a majority welfare queen (in one form or another) state is willfully blind.
And it gets worse (as has been admitted to me privately, to borrow a phrase): all those nice, new "retirement" apartments springing up for seniors? The sustainable (think Agenda 21) planners - yes, we have them in Iowa - really don't plan on them being filled by grandmas and grandpas in perpetuity. Meshes suspiciously well with the death panels that everyone was assured won't happen, eh, what?
Hell on earth is never that far away.
Mr. niteowl77
I used to WORK for Section 8 as a clerk. The things I saw would raise the hair on the back of your neck! I had liberal leanings—until about two weeks into that job!!! I discovered Rush Limbaugh about the same time!!
Here’s a story about one of the locals who was a kid at the time I worked there. Her mother was on Section 8 with a plethora of biological extrusions; she being one of them:
http://www.whec.com/news/stories/S2833934.shtml?cat=566