Posted on 10/01/2007 6:02:45 AM PDT by 3AngelaD
Hundreds of families living in housing subsidized by Fairfax County taxpayers exceed income caps designed to ensure that only the neediest receive assistance....
Fairfax is underwriting rents for families making well into six figures: One household getting help makes more than $216,000 a year; another, $184,000. Dozens of others -- making $60,000, $70,000, $90,000 -- exceed eligibility caps. And they do so with the tacit approval of county housing administrators, who do little to encourage occupants to move on when their fortunes improve.
These tenants live in housing intended for families at the bottom of the county's economic spectrum. They are in the federally subsidized public housing program, the Fairfax rental program and the county's senior housing program. The county...will spend about $4.5 million this year running these programs...
...Board of Supervisors Chairman Gerald E. Connolly (D) helped establish an initiative in 2005 to funnel more than $20 million a year toward the preservation of lower-cost housing...
County housing officials emphasize -- and a review of county and federal housing rules confirms -- that they have broken no rules by letting tenants remain after their incomes rise. They say every household met eligibility caps when they entered the program. Officials also say that to turn families out would punish them for attaining self-sufficiency....
But records show that the highest annual household income in Fairfax public housing is $216,325. The next is $136,957, then $112,500, then $105,603 and so on. All told, 111 households -- about 10 percent -- make more than half of the area's median income...
In both the rental program and the senior housing program, the county has less latitude to push families out when their incomes rise: Many of the units are funded through federal programs that prohibit income-based evictions...
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Outrageous. We need to boot Connolly out and bring in Baise. I wonder how many of these affluent residents receiving subsidies are US citizens.
Wonder how many of these affluent residents receiving subsidies are US citizens? I bet none are US Citizens, they are not and never want to be...only US Citizens have to worry about obeying the Laws!
Afforsable housing...another Lib wet dream, financed by Taxpayers to guarantee the votes from the TaxEaters!!
There is so much waste, fraud, and abuse in these government run programs, yet the Dems want to takeover running healthcare for the nation.
jokes on the libs, I take advantage of these programs and vote Republican.
I figured out a long time ago that whenever the government hands out free money, you’re going to have cheaters. It astounds me that we have public largesse run by people who can’t figure that out - or intentionally don’t want to.
I think people should realize that government has become one big system of corruption - that “doing good” is really handing out taxpayer money for political reasons.
Unbelievable that many of the units are funded through federal programs that PROHIBIT income-based evictions...
While I do not doubt that some listed tenants in these public housing projects have six figure incomes, I seriously question that anyone with that kind of income would actually live there. I would bet that on further investigation these individuals have sublet their subsidized housing for a profitable rent.
We have a housing crisis in this country and the gov’t must step to the plate to provide our mortgage payments. Personally, I will be money ahead to have the gov’t pay my mortgage rather than pay my healthcare. I also think they should contemplate a car program.
My nominee for the stupidest statement in this story: Officials also say that to turn families out would punish them for attaining self-sufficiency.”
The taxpayers are being punished for being “self-sufficient”, IMO.
First, this is not substandard housing. Fairfax has gone out of its way to provide very nice, spacious, all amenities included housing for those it assists. Second, many of the people living in that housing are not Americans and have a different set of standards. To them, that housing is a thousand times better than anything they could ever get at home. If taxpayers will help them live there, so much the better. We are suckers being taken for a ride by the likes of Gerald Connolly. That said, it would not surprise me that they were subletting rooms.
Self sufficiency is a goal and reward in itself, not punishment. Only a loony leftie would make it sound negative to take care of oneself.
Just wait till Hillary starts giving out $5000.00 to every new born child.
The anchor baby explosion will multiply infinitely.
Just wait till Hillary starts giving out $5000.00 to every new born child.
The anchor baby explosion will multiply infinitely.
Ah yes, the "Officials"....
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