Posted on 08/17/2007 6:28:47 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
The Altoona Housing Authority no longer will mail application forms to people who want subsidized housing, a policy change that could help control an alleged influx of New Jersey residents.
The authority has been mailing 100 to 150 applications per month for Section 8 and public housing, mostly to people lacking a local preference, including many from New Jersey, authority Executive Director Cheryl Johns said.
“We’ve been bombarded,” she said. “If someone wants an application, they’ll have to come and get it.”
The new policy would make it less convenient for people to apply and get on the waiting list for subsidized housing — although the names of people who are from out of town would remain behind Altoona residents on waiting lists.
Johns has been working with local officials on the influx problem after discovering recently that Newark, N.J., residents were being referred to Altoona for subsidized housing.
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If Altoona is not careful they’ll go the way of Williamsport, PA. All they gotta do is drive up US 220 a couple of hours to see what the “Influx” did to that Pennsylvania town.
All that money NJ steals from people and they still have to export their poor.
It's not their poor, it is third world illegals applying by mail.
Sort of like Mexico.
I have seen the same phenomenon in Glens Falls, NY as well. At least SOME of the illegals work for a living.
Nope. Mostly blacks and second/third generation Puerto Ricans getting dumped in PA by NJ and NY.
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