[FlingWingFlyer]

Sounds like the burbs are on the way to losing all of their pharmacies, supermarkets and Walmarts. Once the “smash and grabber” slash and stabbers move in, decent businesses will be moving out.

[DugwayDuke]

FlingWingFlyer wrote: “Sounds like the burbs are on the way to losing all of their pharmacies, supermarkets and Walmarts. Once the “smash and grabber” slash and stabbers move in, decent businesses will be moving out.”

The liberals believe that relocating Section 8 housing into the burbs will have two effects.
First, proximity to the Section 8 will create sympathy among those living in the burbs resulting in increased funding to offset the poverty.
Second, the burbs will become mentors for those living in the Section 8 demonstrating that the way to get ahead is to get a job allowing them to afford the finer things.

Actually, it won’t work that way.
The burbs will be less likely to support the Section 8 when they can see with their own eyes what the residents of Section 8 are like.
The residents of Section 8 will see the burbs leaving for their jobs, they will roll over for more sleep, and then they will use their absence to steal the finer things.

[Bernard]

I live in DeKalb, Illinois. Many years ago, the city implemented Section 8 housing, aided by votes from the student population and faculty at Nothern Illinois University. Section 8 people from Chicago generally flee that area (when they can) to Aurora or Rockford, and then generally flee those areas to DeKalb.

And the section 8 housing has grown to the point where we have our own food desert, along with all of the problems that come along with the stereotypes. There have been various attempts by true-believers to build non-profit groceries, but so far the Casey's Gas Station and the liquor store across the street are the only places to get a bag of chips or a lottery ticket.

And, of course, capitalism is the problem, at least according to the true believers.