[Clemenza]

I lived in a building in Chicago where most of my neighbors were mental cases collecting Section 8 vouchers to pay the rent. One of my neighbors constantly screamed out the window on how Lionel Richie was coming to rape him.

[RexBeach]

God, I love this story. Lionel Richie on the loose! Look out, Section 8ers!

[Serb5150]

One of my neighbors constantly screamed out the window on how Lionel Richie was coming to rape him.

I realize that this must have been awful for you, but this is also one of the funniest things I've read in a looooong time.

[voiceinthewind]

My neighborhood was middle class, Hispanic, black, Anglo. The kind of place where you knew your neighbor, waved to the mailman, and the flag was seen on many houses year around. Now it's Section 8 central. I had to call the police twice this year. Advice from the police officer? Move, it's only going to get worse. I won't drive down one end of my street, there are men out there all day drinking beer and playing basketball, and no, they don't work nights either. We have seen a sick mentality piggyback with the Section 8 into our neighborhood, and it stinks. One stabbing, one drive-by, and I can't count the number of break-ins. Cars parked on the lawns, grass not mowed,garbage everywhere, unsupervised mouthy rude children out all hours into the night. People aren't moving out because of race or ethnicity, its middle class Hispanics that are doing most of the moving out! Why should we pay a mortgage on a home in a middle class suburb when someone who can't afford to live here can go Section 8 and get the get the govt. to help kill my neighborhood? But, and this is irritating, they need govt. help to make the rent yet drive brand new cars. Not an urban myth, I see it on my street.
Section 8 is a broken program.
I think that if I had the Lionel Ritchie screamer that would be the straw that broke the camels back.