Posted on 04/07/2016 2:35:42 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
Baltimore-area neighborhoods are locked in a heated battle over a new push to bring residents from poor parts of the city into the more affluent suburbs.
The controversy surrounds government-subsidized Section 8 housing.
With crime in the inner city soaring and many of Baltimore’s neighborhoods plagued by gang violence, there was a push to integrate those communities into neighborhoods in the surrounding county. The NAACP and others sued Baltimore County over alleged housing segregation – and the county has now settled, agreeing to spend $30 million over the next 10 years to build 1,000 homes in affluent neighborhoods.
On top of that, the Baltimore County executive is planning to put forward legislation outlawing the practice of landlords denying – or as some see it, discriminating against – Section 8 tenants.
“I think it's important that we make sure that opportunities are available to everyone within the region," County Executive Kevin Kamenetz said.
It’s unclear whether such a proposal would even pass.
But the plans have faced stiff resistance from some residents and lawmakers.
“I think it's nonsense,” said Pat McDonough, a Republican Maryland delegate. “The overall policy which is coming out of the White House -- it is coming out of President Obama's philosophy of social engineering on steroids -- we're going to make everybody better if we move everyone to Kingsville. … It’s a failure and is destined to fail.”
The argument from the NAACP and its allies, though, is that typical Section 8 subsidized housing programs bunch poor people together, and that this only fuels more crime and other problems.
Under the new plan, residents from low-income neighborhoods would be placed all around Baltimore County, essentially integrating the poor among wealthier families.
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Liberal democrats trying to correct one social experiment F-up with another F-up. Share the crime with everybody.
“We’re gonna import thieves, muggers, rapists, gangbangers, and murderers - and YOU’RE gonna pay for it.”
Still further erosion of the constitution.
And, if the Odevil admin can’t get them to take “low income” residents he will push “syrian” refugees on them. Anything to stick his middle finger in the eye of the white people.
Those mean racist landlords. How dare they object to having to do thousands of dollars worth of repairs every time a tenant moves out.
I wonder if the limousine libs in NW DC would go for this there. Maybe one reason the bad parts of DC are gentrifying and pushing low-lifes into PG County—before this happens to them.
and destroy housing prices.
Obama wants to withhold funding for neighborhoods that don't do it.
If anything happened to any of the women in my neighborhood, there would be a massacre.
If anything happened to my wife, I'd bring down hell on Obama’s sons and worry about prison later.
this is a BAD idea.
already the north shore used to be beautiful Italian and irish. Those animals took over and ruined it. freaking projects.
Thirty million would pay for a lot of policing.
Sowing seeds of destruction into the few remaining relatively good suburban schools.
The government peon bastards telling the people who pay them what to do. In a real world, that wouldn’t happen.
This was done in Newport News back in the mid-80s. The reasoning was that the good citizens would raise the level of the criminals to our level. It didn’t work.
We lived in a nice working class apartment complex. It went Section 8. Gang bangers and drug dealers moved in, working people moved out. We stuck it out for a couple years until rounds came through our front door.
It was $3 million a year, $30 million over 10 years. That would get you around 20 cops, maybe a few more, based on our local PD budget, and assuming costs are slightly higher there.
If they were serious about the problems plaguing these low-income neighborhoods, why wouldn’t they police those neighborhoods, and start attacking the root of the problem—the racist and victim mentalities instilled into these people from birth?
Moving them into the more affluent neighborhoods will only cause the middle class to abandon those neighborhoods, leaving even larger swaths of Baltimore in the grips of urban decay. This is supposed to help, how?
“agreeing to spend $30 million over the next 10 years to build 1,000 homes in affluent neighborhoods.”
Thats 30 thousand per home. Cant see government accomplishing it that cheaply
There are a lot less whites to oppose it than there were before; I’m sure this will go as planned.
No sense pretending that the people of Maryland don’t deserve this. They vote for more of it every time they get a chance.
And further, I don’t see any way in Hades that $30 million buys 1000 homes. That’s only $30,000 per unit.
Good point.
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