Posted on 11/03/2015 3:22:55 PM PST by Kenny500c
ALBANY -- Public housing is a program designed to help low-income families by giving them a roof over their head. Last year, about 1.1 million families received public housing assistance. However, people continue to use the system - even after their salaries skyrocket. A blunt report released by the Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development found more than 25,000 families lived above the income limits for folks looking for housing assistance in 2014. The report estimates taxpayers will shell out more than $104 million over the next year to keep those families in public housing. It's money that could assist low-income families who desperately need the help. "It's very illustrative of sort of the way the government runs amok," explained Leslie Paige with government watchdog group Citizens Against Government Waste. "The public housing system is meant to help people who are truly needy, not people who can afford to rent their own places in the private market," Paige said.
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Boy, the price of buying votes has really skyrocketed from the old “Beer and a sandwich” days in Chicago.
I am shocked, just shocked.
The public housing authorities like this. They can impose rent surcharges on high-income people based on their income, so they take in more money. The high-income people are very nice, and instead of wrecking the buildings help take care of them. No wonder they’re welcomed!
Still, public housing means the public can move in any time and too many of them are poor neighbors - pun intentional.
There. Corrected it.
Not in New York. You practically have to inherit an apartment from your rich uncle to get in. Whole buildings are full of well-off people with expensive cars who have been there for 40 years.
In my neck of the woods (Seattle suburbs) there is “affordable housing” available listed at $350k!
Kinda like Charlie Rangel living and running his office out of rent controlled property in NYC, eh?
My SIL’s sister has lived in the projects since birth. She is now about 50 years old with a daughter about 17. She originally lived with her family in a 5 bedroom and when she her mom moved out with the rest of the family who moved onto their own lives, she stayed, applied for a smaller apt and lives there still. She has inherited over 50 grand and we thought for sure she would move out, maybe buy a house or something. She pays about 450 a month. No water or electric charges She stayed put and raised her youngest daughter there. She is a court officer in the NYC Courts which has to bring in at least 40 grand minimum. She’s been there forever. Sometimes she doesn’t pay her rent for months at a time. Spends all her money on clothes and “her” stuff. Even bought a brand new car. I don’t know how they never catch her but she is still living there. SMH. As soon as I could get out we did. As did most of us that were there from the beginning. Now it is the most ghetto place I know of. I guess it grows on you after a while.
1.1 million families is pretty small for a country of 320 million. I thought it would be a lot worse. That isn’t even 1 percent. How are we really going to pay the debt by stoping programs like this. The way people talk you would think 80 million were in public housing.
When you give people money the only thing they come to expect is more of it.
The problem here is that homeless people, including families, are not getting housing while wealthy people are getting free housing.
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