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Thousands Wait In Line For Subsidized Housing Applications (Chicago)
WBBM-TV ^ | August 14, 2013

Posted on 08/15/2013 8:06:40 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

We’ve seen signs the economy is improving, but in the Edgewater neighborhood today, we saw how many Chicagoans are struggling.

CBS’s 2 Jim Williams has the story in this original report.

It was a desperate attempt for a home: A line of thousands waited on Sheridan Road, north of Foster and around the corner.

Many, like Crystal Cooper, had been there all night.

“We’ve been here since 8 o’clock last night. We slept in our chairs with our covers,” said Cooper....

(Excerpt) Read more at chicago.cbslocal.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: chicago; democrats; obama; obamahome; section8; welfare
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Bathroom??? We don’t need no steeenkin’ bathroom. That’s for crackers.


21 posted on 08/15/2013 9:26:20 AM PDT by ogen hal (First amendment or reeducation camp)
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To: tcrlaf

In Lebanon Pa they call them Wellfare Villages.


22 posted on 08/15/2013 9:39:12 AM PDT by magua
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To: dsrtsage
The day before the election, spread flyers all over town advertising free obamacash somewhere on election day.

That's the whole point of "early voting".

It lets the same people vote two or three times a day, in different precincts using different identies, over the entire duration of the "early voting" period, without interfering with meth-cooking, siesta, or midnight basketball.

23 posted on 08/15/2013 9:47:20 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Don’t ask.


24 posted on 08/15/2013 9:53:40 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
we saw how many Chicagoans are struggling

No, you didn't. Those leeches are doing just fine. The ones who are struggling are the working tax payers who are footing the bill.

25 posted on 08/15/2013 10:16:49 AM PDT by bgill (This reply was mined before it was posted.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It was a desperate attempt for a home: A line of thousands waited on Sheridan Road


It is not about housing or economy, it is about FREE STUFF. Put up a sign and in small print put “dead cat”, you will get a line.

Even I will go for free stuff, but I won’t stand in line for it.


26 posted on 08/15/2013 10:21:24 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple
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To: TurboZamboni

I believe the government is already helping minorities buy houses. That’s what is causing the supposedly housing recovery. Obama signs an EO and people get free houses. Coming soon to every neighborhood. Then people can say “This is a neighborhood. This ain’t no residential district!”


27 posted on 08/15/2013 11:17:47 AM PDT by VerySadAmerican (When you vote for evil because you can't see evil, you ARE evil.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

So, are all these people currently homeless or are they just waiting in line for a free house?


28 posted on 08/15/2013 4:25:48 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: wbill

“I’ll go out on a limb and guess that they needed to show ID to get the free housing.”

Wait.... is that true? I mean, it makes sense, but I seriously wonder.

Do you need ID to get an ObamaPhone?


29 posted on 08/16/2013 6:46:02 AM PDT by Noamie
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To: hometoroost

Some of the same people waiting in line for housing are probably the ones who wait in line to pay two hundred dollars for sneakers with Lebron James name on them. There is little evidence of sanity to be seen now.


30 posted on 08/16/2013 8:03:21 AM PDT by RipSawyer
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To: RipSawyer

Or the ones that wait for the people in line to buy the $200 sneakers so they can steal them from them.


31 posted on 08/16/2013 9:57:23 AM PDT by hometoroost
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