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**
Agreed. And I hear that the government repairs the rental house damaged by the "renter". If the owner rents to a non Section 8 renter there's risk of the renter not paying rent and also not paying damages to the house. So Section 8 housing motivates the house owner to use the government instead of the free market.
Making housing prices go up, both for rental houses and purchase houses. If I'm a small real estate investor and I'm considering selling houses, I might decide instead to rent them for guaranteed Section 8 income. That removes starter homes from the market supply of buyers, which raises the price of starter homes. As well as increasing crime in the area (as Ann Coulter points out), which removes other starter homes in the area from the market, further raising the price of nearby starter homes a couple of miles away (outside the crime area).