Posted on 01/12/2013 4:03:25 PM PST by Iron Munro
They ain’t worth $10,000, considering the neighborhood you’d have to live in. (or become a HUD home landlord and milk the system.)
All I can speak to is my personal experience with Section 8 housing in my city. The vast majority of the people who are in section 8 houses do NOT take care of the homes. Grass never cut. Cars parked in the yard. Toys, trash strewn about. Adults sitting outside smoking and proficient in the use of the “F” word.
As a realtor I have seen this repeated over and over and over. Once one house goes section 8, others follow suit and then the people who are home-owners start seeing their property values fall as more and more unkept homes litter the neighborhood. It is a vicious cycle.
So YES, section 8 housing can be incredibly destructive to a neighborhood and destroy the value of middle class tax payers largest asset, their home.
Cleveland has a drawing. Apply online or fill out an application at the library. Not sure when they got smart about it but I can see why.
-— A simple way to do it... ——
It’s government. “It’s the way we always do it.”
Guess who the government employees are.
So, when the AmRev2/CW2 happens, we should just raid the county housing offices, find the records of all Section 8 recipients and systematically shoot them, just to be rid of the ‘undesirables’? Or are these people already on people’s ‘list’ for immediate extermination when the balloon goes up?
Your kids are important, no denying that. My kids are being stolen from too.
The vibe I’m getting is that, if TSHTF, it’s open season on welfare/Section 8 recipients...no matter the color. Am I correct? If I’m over-reacting or drawing the wrong conclusion, please correct me. I’d love to be wrong.
Ursula Burns kin!
I think by definition when TSHTF there won't be any money for recipients. They'll either starve, steal, or find a moral way to make their way.
Actually, this is small potatoes for Detroit. They had something similiar a few years ago in downtown Detroit at Cobo Hall, with the mob being about ten times the size of this. What was being given out were applications for a lottery of about 500 housing subsidies. At the far end of the "jungle grapevine", it was "Obama is giving $5000 from his secret stash to anyone who shows up".
Some just robbed other people standing in line, or selling copies of the application for $50. Street gangs were unable to establish a truce among themselves while waiting in line. It took reinforcements from some of the suburbs, mounted cops, and judicious use of OC spray and tasers to calm things down.
By moving this event towards the edge of Detroit, they at least cut down the riot by a factor of 10, which I guess can be considered a partial success. :)
That's not a statistic I have ever seen. Are you sure about that?
If, in fact, that is true, why don't they do something about the problems in their inner city communities?
“The animals won’t go rural”
If they do it will be a short, one-way trip.
ROFMAO! Very funny, Tony. Best humor of the week, possibly the year...so far! Thanks.
/FR with a laugh...
LOL :)
“...why don’t they do something about the problems in their inner city communities?”
Because they always fall for the Democratic Party line, and vote in Democrats.
RIP Detroit.
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And every 2 weeks our paychecks enable this trash to riot. It’s sad how far we have allowed our “masters” to manipulate us pee-ons.
The most definitive recent study was based on the US census and reported here: http://www.census.gov/prod/2012pubs/p60-243.pdf
With average household income greater than 32,000, and assuming a standard bell curve distribution, this puts 70% of african americans over the poverty line, the thresholds for which are here: https://www.census.gov/hhes/www/poverty/data/threshld/index.html
The number I did screw up on was the total number of african americans in the deoendent underclass which is closer to 16 million. My apologies for that, but I would still assert that 2/3rds of the nation’s 43 million african - american citizens are not dependent on the government for their food and housing.
We may quibble about defining “middle class”, but in my opinion, if you are not in poverty, that puts you somewhere in the middle or better.
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