Posted on 07/09/2013 10:12:43 AM PDT by TigerClaws
Owner rented a nice house via Section 8.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMt9hNa_9SA
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mini Detroit...
Funny you should mention this issue, and timely. Oregon just passed a law banning landlords from refusing to rent to Section 8 recipients.
The law goes into effect July 1st, 2014.
Oh well!
Idiot wanted to cash in on some Section-8 cash from DC, and now he is ticked at the result?
Serves him right.
I’ve seen worse......far worse.........
I just watched this whole video..start to finish. I don’t usually do that with Youtube videos.
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It will result in less affordable housing, not more.
If I was a landlord there, I’d ditch all my cheaper properties and just go high end.
How can that be? In order to rent to Section 8 you have to get inspected and meet all sorts of specs that a typical landlord would not have to. The majority of rental units in Oregon likely don’t qualify.
Landlords are actually lined-up trying to get approved for Section 8 because it means guaranteed on-time payment of rent.
That’s all too true, unfortunately; young people/young families will face more difficulties in finding an affordable “entry-level” home, and renters will face further difficulties as well.
If you read the classified ads for rentals in Oregon, you’ll see a lot of “No Section 8” warnings. It’s pretty common, especially in Portland.
This new law will explicitly prohibit that practice.
“Idiot wanted to cash in on some Section-8 cash from DC, and now he is ticked at the result?”
I know a black guy who rented a condo in DC to a section 8 black. They burned it down.
My dentist’s office is in a really nice section of town. The government bought some nearby units and made them section 8. After a few incidents, everybody in the office, all women except the doc, carry concealed. When they empty the trash, one of them carries the trash and the other covers her with a gun.
Isn’t the government wonderful?
I don’t understand why destroying rented property is not a criminal violation.
Who is John Galt?
It looks like two different houses. It seems to me that it would take some serious effort to turn that house from what is shown in the 'before' pictures to what is shown in the video. More effort than in maintaining it!
An investigation by The Oregonian last year found that Section 8 recipients had limited opportunities to live in neighborhoods with low poverty. Over the span of a decade, voucher-use surged in impoverished neighborhoods east of 82nd Avenue, particularly impacting communities of color.
“I do think it will make a difference,” House Speaker Tina Kotek, D-Portland, said Monday. “It creates that door of opportunity” for voucher-holders to apply for housing close to work, kids’ schools and in thriving neighborhoods.
“How you pay for your rent should not be the determining factor of where you get to live,” said Kotek, who proposed the bill.
They have an opportunity to live in a better neighborhood; get a decent paying job and pay your bills!
My friend in CA bought a nice house in a good neighborhood. After the housing bust some of the owners in her neighborhood rented out to section 8. Not long after that the gangs took over.
No sympathy for this guy at all. He saw fast cash and brought in those animals to what looked like a nice neighborhood. If anything this is just compensation for the trouble he caused the neighbors.
those lining up for Sec 8 tenants would be naive fools or slumlords, nor landlords
landlords know that in return for the govt-guaranteed rent check, they have to swallow any and all tenant behaviors and damage ro their property
which is likely to be trashed and the landlord has to pay for all repairs and rehab - the gubmint don’t make no “security deposit”
and the tenants - impossible to ever evict
and God help you if the property built before 1979 - some pimp lawyer will sue yer aXX for lead paint damages
oh for the joy of being be wealthy enogh to buy the property next door to Tina Kotel and rent it out to section 8 people ... and watch the neighborhood thrive
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