Posted on 08/12/2010 4:35:29 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
East Point residents began lining up to turn in Section 8 housing applications before daybreak Thursday, a day after a crowd of 30,000 mobbed a shopping center to pick up the forms.
This time, less than a dozen people were in line.
[Goes on to describe yesterday's chaos in the heat]
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Shades of where Obama wants us all
I fear this is a sign of things to come in all major cities. Why can’t they allow people to just stay put instead of kicking people out of homes due to foreclosure and charge them what they can afford for the time being?
I saw video of this debacle. A mass of human failures. It looked like a scene from Ethiopia with the natives mobbing a food supply truck. It was disgusting and scary.
I cannot even imagine!
I have a feeling this will happen in other cities as well as more and more people cannot pay their mortgages, get foreclosed upon, and have nowhere to go.
I live in a rural area an hour from ATL. I cannot STAND Atlanta. I got lost downtown recently, and I couldn’t wait to get out of the place. Just the right match would inflame that powder keg. My husband thinks the Atlanta skyline is “beautiful,” but I view it as spearlike edifices jutting up from a concrete jungle.
How did all these people get off work that day?
(sarcasm)
“How did all these people get off work that day?”
I don’t care who you are. That’s funny, right there.
It was very scary - and really depressing. How in the world did we ever get to a state where we have mobs of American citizens (and I’d say they’re probably all native-born and raised, looking at them) clamoring for government housing?
I think Obama would like to see all of us in this position, frankly. This is also part of his income redistribution plan; many of the properties that are now being used as Section 8 housing are actually luxury homes and condos that have been bought by investors during the crash. The investors see renting them to the government as a great form of steady income. Needless to say, people in those neighborhoods who had bought and kept their homes are not happy, but that doesn’t matter because they’re probably all evil capitalists anyway.
What about the rights of the mortgagees? Should their property interest be confiscated?
Now that government GSEs are writing 90% of mortgages, you may get that effect, anyway. The government would be the owner in the event of foreclosure, and by partially forgiving the mortgage (which is what letting the mortgagor stay with temporarily or permanently forgiven payments), would slowly convert the housing stock into government owned housing. Projects everywhere!
......Why can’t they allow people to just stay put.....
Because they are in effect occupying other peoples property. By not paying the due bills for rent or mortgage they are voiding their contracts with the other party.
The other party has no obligation to forgo payment so that someone else cam live beyond their ability to pay.
If you pay federal taxes your money will ultimately pay for many of these people to live.
I didn't pick up the number of available slots, although the article does mention that 13,000 applications were handed out. When there are that few actual slots available, I don't believe the applications have anything to do with who wins. It's got to be personal contacts. I don't believe that the bureaucrats are going to wade through 13,000 applications in some merit-based evaluation process. Maybe it's something like "the thirteenth caller gets the freebie" announcement on the radio, which would be more fair than what I suspect actually happens.
It turned into a mini Haiti!
Section 8 is income-based. The government pays for part of your rent, based on what you earn (or don’t, as the case may be) and what the rent is. Some people get a full ride, and some (people who actually work, sadly in the vast minority) get only a percentage. What the tenant pays is based on 30% of your income.
Say your rent is $1395 a month. If you make, say, $2700 a month before taxes, you’d pay your landlord $810 and the government pays the other $585.
Because they are in effect occupying other peoples property. By not paying the due bills for rent or mortgage they are voiding their contracts with the other party.
and Section 8 is occupying other people’s property with other people’s money.
Wow. Here I am living in a cheap 600 a month apartment and paying 20k a year in taxes so these parasites can live in luxury. No wonder all the Mexicans are sneaking in. This sucks! Like a bunch of hungry ticks. UGGHHH!
As I understand section 8, the renter pays and is subsidized. The owner gets paid. The property is not degraded by substandard occupants.
The problem is what those ‘substandard occupants’ DO to the property. Do they maintain it? Do they pick up trash or mow the yard? Do they invite their friends over and turn the place into a ‘party house’?
It all depends on the occupants and how they behave. Some can live next door to a Sec 8 recipient and you’d never know it because their behavior doesn’t suggest it. With others, you can tell right away simply by how the property is maintained.
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