Anything that expands section 8 should be a complete non-starter. Literally section 8 is being used to destroy middle America via the outgrowth of a lazy, criminal culture of entitled parasites.
I remember a National Review article. A writer named Williamson suggesting getting rid of HUD but keeping Section 8. Ms. Coulter speaks the truth but landlords love it, especially the small ones. The government pays the rent so it’s guaranteed.
Williamson also wrote a book on the debt bomb with “it’s gonna be awesome” in the title, one of my favorite lines here.
There’s more:
**Ferguson, Mo., is an illustration of what happens when Section 8 housing comes to your town. People fleeing crime in St. Louis, residents of inner-city projects began being funneled into “Housing Choice” apartments there.
The town’s most famous resident, Michael Brown, lived in Section 8 housing**
“The theory is that if only criminals lived in nice middle-class areas...”
Don’t see it that way, it is just another tool for the criminals in the House and Senate to enrich themselves and pile on the national debt.
Poverty doesn’t create crime but crime will assuredly create impoverished neighborhoods.
The crazy squirrel found a nut.
I forget... is Ann Good or Bad this week?
Most of the premises used to justify many parts of the bill are false.
And number one reason: Does anything think greater federal insertion into the housing markets will really solve anything?
Every bit of the bill is no-nothing populism, trying to give voters concerned about the cost of housing something, anything, to make believe the Washington D.C. politicians are “doing something about it”.
Most all the reasons housing prices and rents are high are LOCAL and due to state and local policies and conditions.
As Rush used to say... “Bringing the “hood to you! “
Nightmare on Your Street:
https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/6644/text?s=1&r=1&hl=H.R.6644
https://www.crystal-lagoons.com/gallery/
Maybe one’s dear lady can have her beach house after all.
No sharks, no jellyfish, no red tide!
No storm surge!
No flood insurance!
“liberals blame dysfunctional behavior on”
Blame dysfunctional behavior on liberals.
What the well-to-do might do is to build in rural areas on clay soil that ‘perks’ poorly.
The rural area means sewer lines are economically impractical and the clay soil means leach fields have to be huge and very expensive.
If housing for the professional class becomes too rare or not physically or economically safe, then the whole area might fail.
Employers might bring in H-1Bs, but it would cost India nothing to let its H-1Bs return home and pay no income tax.
What if House H dropped in price year after year?
$600,000
$570,000
$540,000
....
How much of a mortgage should be given on House H? How low can the price of House H go?
Do even I know?
Would the country of Havenland want productive, law-abiding, and healthy Americans?
Maybe!
Would the country of Havenland want unproductive, law-breaking, or unhealthy Americans?
Certainly not!
The much of the productive tax base of the USA might bolt.
The bill had veto-proof super-majorities in both houses of Congress.