A few years ago I did some site work on a new upscale apartment complex in a nice suburb of Minneapolis.
I asked the manager why there were so many junk cars in the parking lot since the rent was very high and people like that usually drive nice stuff.
He said in order to get the project approved they had to give a percentage of the apartments to Section 8 people.
He was very annoyed about it.
Gentrification is one way of saying “Gaytrification”. Many gay couples buy up properties to remodel them. They will fight homeless shelters and Section 8 like it is a war.
1) Some friends and I rented a townhouse in a brand new complex. Fast forward a few months. The inner core of townhouses were a mess with crap strewn all over the place. The outer ring of townhouses (including ours) were neat and well maintained. Onsite property man explained> the City paid the rent for inner core townhomes on behalf of welfare types. Non-welfare tenants paid full market cost.
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”