Posted on 03/14/2008 12:46:50 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
If so, we can take turns holding our place in line.
28 yrs. old and mother of 5....wow. Talk about running a puppy farm.
Why am I not surprised that the HUMAN TRASH from Riviera Beach and Pahokee would prefer to live in Boca? Since there is no more room in Pearl City/Dixie Manor, I assume they will stuff these folks in those ratty complexes near Spanish River/BR Boulevard that have been the designated human fecal control zone in Boca for years.
I live in a rather affluent town where we basically do the same thing as Boca to satisfy our "affordable housing requirements." In the case of my township, we basically decided to heard all of our section 8ers into a section that borders Trenton, and that is cut off from the rest of our municipality by dead ends and traffic circles. In other words, we keep them cornered.
My guess is section 8 vouchers will handed out to these ne’er do wells. With the real estate crash many houses in decent neighborhoods are being rented. These houses will be rented out to these section 8 “families” which will trash these neighborhoods. Make people sell at distress prices and get the heck out
see post 23?
I don't see the Bocacrats rolling over on this. Folks from the NE, for all of their liberalism, fight tooth and nail against "low income housing" in their neighborhoods. Google "Mario Cuomo" and "Forest Hills" and you will see my point.
Nevertheless, a friend of mine who grew up in the city of North Miami told me how, after the Liberty City riots, the feds gave section 8 vouchers to the folks displaced by their own rioting. They soon turned every apartment complex in North Miami into the ghetto they left behind. It was only a matter of time before North Miami became just as bad as Liberty City or Overtown. See also East Orange and Irvington, NJ for the same phenomenon 14 years earlier.
Lower middle class nabes are usually the most likely to "turn." In other words, I would expect Margate, Deerfield Beach, Lantana, to go to the sh-thouse before Boca would.
THanks..... So detcahed houses not so likely?
In any event, although the housing agency is located in Boca, it's not as if this is for housing only in Boca. The condition for these section 8 vouchers is that the recipients live somewhere -- anywhere -- in Palm Beach County for a year. Then they can live anywhere they want inside or outside of the county (as long as they find a landlord willing to take the voucher).
My sister lived for awhile in a nice complex right off of Hillsborough. Once you got on Hillsborough proper, however, you were in the ghetto.
Most South Florida towns are "spotty" as my mother would say. You have beautiful nabes near the intercoastal, but dangerous ghetto/sleazy nabes further on the mainland, particularly immediately adjacent to I-95 in the case of Palm Beach/Broward/Dade Counties.
That I-95 rule is very true. It’s actually a valley effect — really nice places on the beach and intracoastal, progressively depressed as you move to I-95 (and in Broward extending in many cases to the Turnpike), then things slowly get better again the farther west you go. We moved from one end to the other when we had kids — from South Beach all the way out to the SW Broward ’burbs. My wife would have nothing to do with anything in between, even though it would have been closer to work for me.
I still find it hysterical when people refer to suburbia. To THIS New Yorker, ALL of South Florida is suburban. Even the urban areas are tract homes and strip malls.
If they had started at 7AM, there wouldn’t have been a riot.
Notice that nowhere in these stories is it mentioned that these po’ people are fighting over section 8 vouchers. Is that in fact the case? Am I dumb to ask such a question?
I know what you’re saying — I myself moved down here from Manhattan some 15 years ago — but South Beach is unique, and very Manhattan-like in many, many ways. (Indeed, that’s precisely why I lived there.) It’s the only place in South Florida where I know a lot of people who don’t own a car. I used to walk everywhere — to the grocery store, dry cleaners, hardware store, shoe repair, bank, drugstore, even the dentist. My move out of there two years ago was definitely a big switch. I can’t walk anywhere now, except maybe around the block.
It's mentioned right up front in the Miami Herald story I linked to. The Herald is a decent paper. The Sun Sentinel is a piece of liberal fish wrap. The PB Post isn't far behind.
THanks for pointing that out!
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