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Chicago’s public housing divide (luxury rent paid by CHA)
Chicago Sun-Times ^ | March 12, 2016 | Brett Chase

Posted on 03/15/2016 8:45:18 AM PDT by CreviceTool

The CHA pays him $3,911 a month in federal funds to lease his townhouse to the woman and three others in her household, including a child under the age of 6, records show. It also has been a good deal for Lai’s tenant. She pays no rent because, CHA officials say, she has no income. The CHA declined to identify her or other voucher clients, though it released the names of landlords. Public housing doesn’t conjure images of a near-$1 million home. But the CHA foots most or all of the bill for Lai’s tenant and others to live in luxurious homes, even as tens of thousands of other low-income Chicagoans remain concentrated in poor, segregated areas or stuck on waiting lists to get housing assistance.

(Excerpt) Read more at chicago.suntimes.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cha; chicago; housing; voucher
Nearly $48,000 per year in housing and that's just the beginning of the panoply of welfare benefits that include; debit card, free medical, nutrition assistance (meals),low cost/free transit, free schooling and day care.

Are these generations of welfare recipients expected to pull a lever in the voting booth for a Republican?

1 posted on 03/15/2016 8:45:18 AM PDT by CreviceTool
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To: CreviceTool
She pays no rent because, CHA officials say, she has no income.

Well that makes sense. How can she pay rent if she has no income?

2 posted on 03/15/2016 8:46:46 AM PDT by Steely Tom (Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
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To: CreviceTool

Chicago’s been a democrat city for so long that everything that touches their political system is corrupt.


3 posted on 03/15/2016 8:46:46 AM PDT by GOPJ ("When Cruz has a riot at HIS event will he blame himself for being "divisive"?"-freeper TigerClaws)
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To: CreviceTool

Nice!, if you like apartment living in a Big 'Rat Controlled City.....

4 posted on 03/15/2016 8:49:20 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: CreviceTool

That city is a cess pool.


5 posted on 03/15/2016 8:50:00 AM PDT by WENDLE (Trump is not bought . He is no puppet.)
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To: CreviceTool

Wow! A $4,000-a-month welfare crib. SCORE!!!


6 posted on 03/15/2016 8:50:30 AM PDT by IronJack
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To: Steely Tom

You can,t have any pudding if you dont eat your meat.


7 posted on 03/15/2016 8:52:25 AM PDT by brivette (no tagline)
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To: IronJack

Not having to waste time commuting and going to work allows one way more time to enjoy the digs. Sounds like social justice is maximized....


8 posted on 03/15/2016 8:52:32 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: brivette

Just keep (eating your peas...) paying taxes....


9 posted on 03/15/2016 8:53:57 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: brivette
Stand still, laddie!
10 posted on 03/15/2016 8:55:07 AM PDT by Steely Tom (Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
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Put me in charge. Housing only basics. Roof, hot and cold running water and electricity. Which is way more than my mother had growing up and she did just fine. For food, state run store only, which contains only basic milk eggs, flour, beans, vegetables, and fruits, no frozen meals, no chips, no sodas, no alcohol, no tobacco. Parking lot monitored and anybody pulling up in an escalade loses benefits for a year. Anybody entering subject to breathyliser and random drug testing. I am salary and worked 300 hours over last 3 weeks, so my tolerance of how much of my time people think they are entitled to is very low


11 posted on 03/15/2016 8:58:04 AM PDT by dsrtsage (One half of all people have below average IQ. In the US the number is 54%)
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To: CreviceTool

Bill Clinton said it best, the winners of life’s Lottery.


12 posted on 03/15/2016 8:58:37 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (There is nothing Democratic about the Democrat Party. (Or the GOPe))
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To: Steely Tom

Ok


13 posted on 03/15/2016 8:59:19 AM PDT by brivette (no tagline)
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To: brivette

Just wait until the landlord sees the mess left behind, he will never rent to Section 8 again.


14 posted on 03/15/2016 9:17:51 AM PDT by Oldexpat
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To: CreviceTool

Well, as long as this type of graft is limited to Chicago—— Say what?!


15 posted on 03/15/2016 9:47:43 AM PDT by Phinneous (She-yibaneh beis hamikdash bi-m'heirah v'yameinu v'sein chelkeinu b'sorahsecha.)
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I feel sorry for the Section 8 neighbors. Section 8 tenants are notorious for loud music and partying 24/7. How would you like to pay $1 million for a condo and find out that you are now living in the hood for all practical purposes?


16 posted on 03/15/2016 9:58:35 AM PDT by Neanderthal
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I feel sorry for the Section 8 neighbors. Section 8 tenants are notorious for loud music and partying 24/7. How would you like to pay $1 million for a condo and find out that you are now living in the hood for all practical purposes?

This is really true in middle class neighborhoods. Hard working families have worked hard, climbed the ladder, and bought a house not in the projects only to have the projects move in next door. There goes your property value.

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17 posted on 03/15/2016 10:12:58 AM PDT by fungoking (Tis a pleasure to live in the Ozarks)
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18 posted on 03/15/2016 11:11:55 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Facing Trump nomination inevitability, folks are now openly trying to help Hillary destroy him.)
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To: Steely Tom
"...She pays no rent because, CHA officials say, she has no income..."

Well now that it's been explained to me, it all makes sense. Glad they broke it down and used small words.

19 posted on 03/15/2016 11:23:09 AM PDT by T-Bone Texan (Don't be a lone wolf. Form up small leaderlesss cells ASAP !)
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