Minneapolis Subsidizes Somalis’ Vacations in Africa (from 2016)

Breitbart News ^ | October 2, 2016 | Michael Patrick Leahy

[rightwingintelligentsia]

“Public housing residents in Minneapolis will no longer need to pay their normal monthly rent when travel abroad erases their income, a change particularly sought by East African immigrants,” the Star Tribune reports:

The board of the Minneapolis Public Housing Authority approved this week reverting to its previous policy of collecting only minimal rent during extended absences. The change takes effect once approved by federal housing officials, which is expected by year’s end.

Abdi Warsame, a City Council member, told the board that the policy in place for the past five years works a particular hardship on elderly East Africans who must save for long periods if they want to visit their homelands. He said that many receive federal Supplemental Security Income, which is halted when the recipient is outside the United States.

Yet the policy required people to keep paying rent, which is income-based. Travelers gone for 30 to 90 days could apply for a hardship, which meant that they paid the minimum $75 monthly rent during their absence, but were required to make up the difference between that and their normal rent over the next year or two.

The change will mean that residents will pay only the $75 minimum per month, assuming they apply for the hardship status.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Miscellaneous; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: 2016; crime; fraud; minneapolis; minnesota; somalis

[rightwingintelligentsia]

I dug this old article out because I thought I remembered reading about this. Apparently, refugees from war-torn Somalia, which is too dangerous for these people to live in so they fled to the United States, were traveling back to Somalia to "vacation" for extended periods of time while Minneapolis held open their taxpayer subsidized apartments for a reduced rate.

[silverleaf]

Bump

[blitz128]

lol, let me try this with my mortgage company.
Hey Bank, going on vacation, no mortgage payment this month😎

[Ann Archy]

DISGUSTING.

[silverleaf]

Now we deserve to know how many Somalis are on SSI which is almost impossible for disabled Amcits to obtain without a lawyer

[Ann Archy]

Yes...and then SEND THEM ALL BACK TO FIX THEIR CRAPHOLE COU TRY.

[Marko413]

“Refugees” were traveling back to their country of origin for vacations.

[Made In The USA]

Institutional Fraud.

[PGalt]

Domestic enemies subsidizing our demise by invaders.

[Cowgirl of Justice]

Didn’t the DOJ, under Eric Holder sue for muslims right to get time off work to go to mecca?

https://coudynews.com/us-justice-dept-sues-school-for-not-giving-muslim-teacher-3-weeks-leave-for-mecca-pilgrimage/

Yet, CHRISTIANS don’t get any holidays at work with religious meaning - Christmas is ‘winter break’ and Easter is ‘spring holiday’.

[butlerweave]

or collecting money in the US and living in Somalia

[ridesthemiles]

HOLDER===ANOTHER SNAKE

[Moltke]

Syrian, Afghan, Ukranian et al. “refugees” in Europe do this all the time. Even their flights are paid for by the tax payer. It is disgusting and infuriating.

[AZJeep]

I once tried to travel to Equatorial Africa. (Not Somalia).
I was stunned by the prices of the tickets and so I call the trip off.

If these elderly, poor Minnesotans can afford these prices, they surely can afford a full rent during the trip.
As a matter of fact, I think, they do not need any subsidized housing!

[AZJeep]

Refugees from Somalia
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If you are admitted as a refugee, the main reason is, that you cannot return back home, because you will be killed, maimed or send to long time prison!

If you are REAL refugee, you CANNOT go back for vacation!!!