I live in the 7th richest county in the country (according to Money magazine) and yet section 8 has destroyed many neighborhoods here that have apartments in them with eelfare crime cases. They eat up huge police, public school and medical resources (our tax $$$) and they pay little or no taxes as ours keep on going up.
You may not know this but small businesses support section 8 as they do a local county program here called affordable housing where the county helps a lower income family/person buy a house in nice neighborhood with our tax money, paying about half the price and being co-owner. They also like amnesty for illegals even though long term these work against them politically.
Businesses like this because it's cheaper nearby labor that they don't pay for directly.
I have heard of the Affordable Housing program, but I don’t know anything about it. Doesn’t surprise me much these days.
I agree with your take on small businesses.
What winds up happening, and you address it quite well, is that it destroys communities. Areas where Section 8 comes in, are soon hell holes.
Even the people who come in under it, are not safe. It’s basically a screw job of everyone involved, and anyone who lives anywhere close to them.