Posted on 11/30/2004 6:23:58 PM PST by Racehorse
A grandmother caring for seven kids on $600 a month has sued the San Antonio Housing Authority, claiming it violated her 14th Amendment right to due process by taking away her federal housing voucher without a proper hearing.
Janet Anderson, a housekeeper who cares for her five children and two grandchildren, filed the lawsuit last week in federal court.
The lawsuit claims SAHA terminated her rent subsidy because of "unreported family income" but failed to explain in detail what the income was or when she got it.
Late Monday, a SAHA spokeswoman said a letter detailing the violation would be sent to Anderson today.
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"This woman has been without a subsidy for months," said Anderson's Legal Aid attorney, Ann Zaragoza. "Money that would go to feed her children has to go to rent. SAHA is literally taking food from the mouths of her children."
Since the lawsuit was filed, SAHA has agreed to pay the subsidy through December until the case can be heard in court. SAHA set an informal hearing on the income issue.
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I know NOTHING about this...
...but are the two grandchildren from two of the five children she's rearing? If they are old enough to make 'em, they are old enough to rear 'em.
Hmmm. She has kids old enough to have kids, but she still needs to care for them herself???
Oh, since the mid sixties or so.
Correction.
Whenever Social Security started. Late 1930s or so.
"This woman has been without a subsidy for months"
And she nor her charges have starved or frozen to death in the streets have they?
They do not need my money for welfare - they probably make a lot more than I do when you add up all that cash, welfare, medical, food stamps, subsidized telephone (usually FREE) etc etc etc. The average welfare queen makes the equivalent of an honest person making $50k plus!/yr
A surmise:
One or more of the bling bling adorned 'kids' got caught by cops selling dope. The family is a problem; the housing authority wants them gone. But there may be a hangup using the juvenile's arrest and occupation as a pretext: confidential info that may have been unlawfully obtained (the 'community' cop on the bicycle tells the babe working the office).
Or something like that.
Grandma wins again.
That's similar to what I originally thought. But the explanation is more straight-forward. The housing authority purchased software which somehow profiles suspected unreported income.
"In the few months it's been in operation . . . the program has raised flags on 500 SAHA residents and questioned $11,000 in unreported income. Those cases are under review."
don't forget "free"/subsidized internet service. It's an actual program to bridge the "digital divide".
How else will the little angels look for their high tech jobs in the high tech economy? ( Apparently the bureaucrats never heard of a newspaper, Job Center, or Library.)
Don't laugh, dial-up access is becoming the hip, new entitlement...
I bet you my last 50 bucks that they got cable tv
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