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I lived in a condo for almost a year and discovered after leasing the neighbors below were Section 8. I had to call the police on them twice for domestic violence. They drank heavily, didn’t have jobs, and had a broken down car in front. There was pretty much nothing the HOA could do.

I lived in another, very nice, upscale condo when the foreclosure crisis hit. I used to go to the pool and there’d be a couple sunbathers or a couple senior citizens. It was lovely. Then, some condos went Section 8. The pool became unusable. It was taken over by white trash and gangs, and things were starting to have graffiti on them. We got a German Shepherd.

We moved from the condo to a home in a gated community in an even more, very upscale area- one of the nicest. We were near a nice shopping plaza. In the planned development, there were condos in the center of the hub. Nearly every single week there was a police helicopter circling overhead. My neighbor commented that it was because the condos had gone Section 8. The grocery store’s ingress and egress had to be remodeled and the other stores were locking their doors during the day due to flash mobs. A house behind me that was vacant at least a year obviously went Section 8. I came close to calling the police twice. I think the HOA got rid of them. They were only there a couple months and trashed the $350000+ house. I kept my gun within arm’s reach always. I figured my Shepherd would give me time to get the safety off.

I now live in a guard gated community. We only had 6 burglaries in one week last month so that might be an improvement.