[ModelBreaker]

HUD is less about projects now and more about forcing high-density low-income section 8 housing into the suburbs. Recent HUD rules:

1. Landlords cannot use criminal background to determine whether to rent.

2. Section 8 subsidies go up a lot more for more expensive neighborhoods so that poor people can live in expensive neighborhoods.

3. If a county or city opposes a high-density low income housing project, HUD can overrule their zoning decisions and even votes and force them to put the ghetto-in-formation into their city and can fine them and appoint a federal “receiver” to oversee all their land use decisions.

4. Much more. HUD is a cesspool.

Think about what they are doing. As central cities gentrify, they have to put the poor people somewhere. So they want to punish the people in the suburbs. This is an enormous power play by property owners in central cities at the expense of property owners in the burbs.

[mainestategop]

I remember hearing of how real estate developers in Orange County actually burned down entire neighborhoods to keep them from going to section 8! The houses were older than 50 years which made them eligible.

[CPT Clay]

You hit the nail on the head MB