[caww]

I stood in grocery line tonight and the gal checking out said to the other lady standing there....”I’m moving up from public housing to section 8 housing”..”I’ve had 12 years in public housing and had enough of that”.

So it seems there are levels of Government housing they aspire to. Humm-mmm’

[nascarnation]

Public housing is govt owned buildings. Typically dreadful environment.

Section 8 is like food stamps, the govt (aka your taxes) gives a voucher that the tenant uses to pay the building or home owner. Quality varies depending on location, but nearly always better than public housing.

The great society is wonderful, isn’t it?

[Awgie]

As a Home Health physical therapist I am in public housing often. These people have clean (if they keep it that way) comfortable and secure living quarters. They have nothing to do all day but watch soap operas, chat with the neighbors and complain.

They are completely insulated from the real world. What do they care if the economy crashes. In many ways they have the same security of the independently wealthy. Their lifestyles are not exposed to recession depression war or famine. Uncle Sam is their sugar daddy.