Posted on 10/04/2014 3:46:52 PM PDT by Drango
LOW-INCOME PUBLIC HOUSING PROGRAM
The Public Housing (PH) Program was established by the U.S. Housing Act of 1937 to provide decent, safe and sanitary housing for low-income families, elderly, and persons with disabilities. The ACHA owns and operates Public Housing complexes throughout Allegheny County, consisting of high-rise apartments, walk-up apartments, townhouse apartments, and single-family homes. The ACHA receives federal funding subsidies and program participants pay rent based on their income.
I gained 15. Hard to keep off.
I would assume that the smoking ban does not include joints....which are part of the culture and not a choice!
I believe they have a right to do so.
Even with your assumptions, we are talking about thousands of dollars. $10 day x 365 days (most years), $3,650 a year. (That's 'thousands of dollars',) So what you call exaggeration, most folks would call clear facts.
Cigarette smoking usually disgusts me.... But what I see here are some petty tyrants w Gov’t jobs getting their fun by tormenting these poor people in their housing units/Maybe their lives are semi-miserable and smoking is one cheap pleasurable thing they have
Oh come on. A lot of “poor” people know enough to roll their own. It costs me $27. a month to smoke about a pack a day. I’m 74 and healthy as a horse. And not obese from quitting.
So does your Goobermint.
Yes, thousands of dollars per year which, when applied to apartment rent, works out to about a $300 per month difference. You might as well say that he’d save tens of thousands of dollars per decade but it would still be $300 per month.
Fair enough.
As a society we need to stop subsidizing those who don’t need it. That includes crony capitalism such as Boeing and the Export-Import bank.
The individual in this story smokes and likely spends over $1,000 a year doing it assuming he smokes a pack a day. It’s disposable income. My point is that amount should go to his rent. I’m sorry that he may be semi-miserable, but he needs to stop feeding at the taxpayer teat.
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That is a dollar a pack
The amount of his rent is based on his income and not any habit.
You sound like a government troll that wants to wring the last dollar out of someone's pocket. If he spent that on bowling or fishing would you still want every disposable dime?
That was my point
Ooopss..
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That is a dollar a pack
Generally speaking, Parents do not change house rules.
The Gov always does.
Agreed, Good Lord what if the guy likes pudding cups?
Stand by all you nazis because they ARE going to mess with you based on what you eat through Obamacare.
Oh he at 12 pudding cups a day, we wont pay.
Furthermore I think poor people have the same RIGHTS as anyone else.
Including the 2nd Amendment
That is what High Point Firearms are for.
The guy in the single wide has the same rights as the guy in the mansion on the hill.
Absolutely. Liberals are about control.
Neither of them have a right to live on the taxpayer teat. They have the right to pay for their own apartment.
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