Posted on 04/17/2019 6:14:25 AM PDT by C19fan
Follow The Money!
Somebody is making money off of this, you can be assured of that.
Ghettos aren’t ghettos because of the architecture or geography...
The Politicos were watching too much Jeffersons and not enough Good Times.
Housing vouchers equal to 175% of fair market rent. Wow, sweet gig.
2) Dad was a Masonry contractor. He performed masonry repair on City owned townhomes. Dad comes home one hot summer day, pissed. Sixty years old repairing a porch in the blazing sun. Around 1pm 25 year old dude comes out in his PJ’s, drinking a cold beer. Tells my Dad, “sure must be tough working on a hot day like today”
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I’ve done a lot of work on public housing projects. I see that scenario all the time. And then they get into cars that are much nicer than mine.
It went exactly as planned.
L
It’s what happens when the whole society becomes delusional.
We have become a very sick society.
But, sooner than later, reality gets its revenge, and it’s not pretty.
They tear down old public housing projects and put in mixed income units.
It's often done with great fanfare but their are few long-range follow-up reporting on the results.
I only remember one where responsible tenants complained some people never changed their behavior and there was a downward spiral.
“revised downward” Definition: When expectations don’t meet reality. See also “painting a rosy picture”
Common reference:
The usual case each month during the 8 years of Obama, when government economic/jobs forecast were reported and the following month were revised downward...
Longtime Sedgwick Gardens resident Jane Hardin said many of the tenants with vouchers are good neighbors. But she worries about a woman down the hall who screams to herself at odd hours.
they could order and have good people pay taxes to destroy a dignified building at their whim.....
the POWER....that is what all good communists want...
do we fit in the "mentally ill" category?..yet we are clean, we work, we take care of ourselves, pay taxes and don't poop in the staircase, at least I hope not....
people make CHOICES and they make BAD CHOICES.....
we can't just make the diagnosis of "mental illness"....
a truly mentally ill person wouldn't last one day living on the streets...
whites predominantly have become the slaves....we work...others do not....
Wtf are you talking about? Nobody mentioned being overweight as a mental illness...You apparently are in the lower quartile of the population in reading comprehension. Make a good choice today, Stay off the sauce or stay off the keyboard.
I could never understand why poor people kept garbage in their living rooms, kitchen, bedrooms. I helped a group go into low income houses and brought food, bedding, other things and saw first hand how they lived.
A Pastor who was once a drug addict and homeless himself said that people grow up like that, trash all over in their homes, so when they become adults it’s normal living to them. It is only abnormal to us.
Just change the name of all the D.C. up-scale, un-filled long term-rental hotels and up-scale, un-filled apartment complexes to "Sanctuary Gardens".......and fill 'em all up with the illegals, the homeless, the unwanted and the unwashed.
This will make everyone in The Swamp happy, including the D.C. politicos.....except for the new thousands of homeless who would soon be hitting the streets because they couldn't live in their once-habitable digs any more.
What goes around comes around, hah!
Leni
We need to bring back the state mental hospitals. It is a whole lot cheaper and a whole lot more humane to everybody concerned than the results we are seeing now.
I agree, Id rather see tax dollars spent on mental rehab facilities instead of unsupervised housing for the mentally unstable, drug addicts, alcoholics, etc.
Gentrification adds to the tax base and improves the existing housing stock. It is a problem only when local governments, through rent controls and zoning restrictions, disincentivize private additions to the supply of affordable housing. The District of Columbia is Exhibit No. 1.
“a truly mentally ill person wouldn’t last one day living on the streets...”
Wow. You’ve apparently never been to any major metropolis in the United States.
Homeless people include BOTH types— people who make bad choices (drugs, etc) and people who are really, truly, I promise you, seriously & frighteningly mentally ill.
Plus, there’s the factor of long-term drug abuse which CAUSES mental deterioration.
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