Keen observation - I believe the forced Section 8 housing in suburbia has the exact same motivation as the Quartering Act.
These people are the de facto shock troops of the left, demoralizing their “enemy”.
“These people are the de facto shock troops of the left, demoralizing their “enemy”.”
They are, but they are being crushed themselves by the Bronze horde demographically and economically (the Left’s new shock troops). The Quartering Act was to burden the beneficiaries of the soldiers’ protection with the cost (during and after the French & Indian Wars). We don’t benefit at all from having the dregs of society pawned on us; the federal government knows nobody wants them (the only beneficiaries are liquor stores and social services, public school teachers, and police), so they’ll spread the problem across all 50 states to spread the cost (and risk).