I read that you can get some nice Section 8 housing in Las Vegas, since it was so over-built in the real estate bubble. But the writer couldn’t be a Beltway guy, with a Tolstoy descendant for a neighbor it he moved west. It’s not just that he’s broke, he is sad not to be as cool as he used to be.
Of course, if he had a loving wife and children, and a spiritual life and faith community, he’d be in better shape, but that’s not especially cool, either.
He probably had to get rid of his little gay kick-dog too.
Section 8 housing is widely available in Grand Rapids MI as well (and in pretty much all cities, probably), and if one can stand the neighbors, a lot of it is not bad. He’d be better served to move to a cheaper town, since he clearly isn’t doing anything productive with his time, despite living within reasonable walking distance (or train, the subway system is pretty posh, and reaches out into the surround states) of some of the best museums in the world, as well as the Library of Congress.
The wikipedia entry notes that he went to three different universities, didn’t finish at any of them, yet lectured at still others later in his life.
> William McPherson (born March 16, 1933) is an American writer and journalist. He is the author of two novels, Testing the Current and To the Sargasso Sea, and many articles, essays, and book reviews. McPherson was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Criticism in 1977.
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.