It was very scary - and really depressing. How in the world did we ever get to a state where we have mobs of American citizens (and I’d say they’re probably all native-born and raised, looking at them) clamoring for government housing?
I think Obama would like to see all of us in this position, frankly. This is also part of his income redistribution plan; many of the properties that are now being used as Section 8 housing are actually luxury homes and condos that have been bought by investors during the crash. The investors see renting them to the government as a great form of steady income. Needless to say, people in those neighborhoods who had bought and kept their homes are not happy, but that doesn’t matter because they’re probably all evil capitalists anyway.
After years of following politics I have developed a Machiavelian mind. What if these people are being guided to Atlanta in order to boost the democrat voting population in that city? Call it gerrymandering inreverse, moving the people instead of the district lines. In recent years many whites have been moving in Atlanta and they are changing the black political power structure of the city. Hmmm....
I saw something about a California brand new neighborhood that is 90% empty, many of the homes are being rented out to section 8 tenants and there is now a crime problem in this brand new expensive neighborhood in the exurbs. Homeowners are now stuck with houses that no one wants and they are afraid for their physical safety.
Part of this problem is that the mega builders just want to get rich quick. They get their money and just take off. Building hundreds of houses at a time creates a glutted market which always ends with disaster. Back in the eighties there was a glut of condos, some of the condos in our area were left empty. This is a cycle but it shouldn’t be, housing shouldn’t be about rolling the dice.