The term “subsidized” housing (i.e., Section 8) is really misleading. The actual payment a tenant has to pay is based on what their spendable income is and then a percentage of that is what they pay. I am not even sure their welfare payments count as spendable income.
There is a guy on the net that has a full set of pictures (before and after) of his house he put on Section 8 (he got another house) where the rent was something over $1000/month. The tenant couldn’t even come up with her $50/month co-payment. She lived there about a year and the amount of damage she did to the house was horrendous. She was eventually evicted but not before virtually all of the appliances and plumbing, wires, pipes etc. were ripped out and the whole house was completely trashed.
From experience let me say as a former landlord:
“Some people can tear up an anvil!”
As Gomer might say: “Surprise! Surprise! Surprise!” NOT
Property owners insist on references, W-2s and such in my area because your property will be destroyed before the years it can take to evict someone have passed.
NJ.com just had a piece about the welfare motels of Seaside Heights NJ; the gibsmedats (primarily white - mainly drug addicts or unemployable sex offenders) housed there view their inability to use the pool or panhandle from paying guests as some kind of incarceration.