Charm City
Pro Bowler
“low income housing” isn’t nearly as charitable and good willed as it sounds here in the US, low income housing is government subsidized housing and it discourages growth and progress for families because if you reach a threshold of income you lose all of your benefits which means you lose your housing and food, do you know what kind of culture this breeds? A culture where the best money is untaxed money so that your benefits can’t get taken from you, a culture where the parents have the benefits in their names and the teenagers are making the spending money that the government can’t know about, if you catch my drift. Again, I’ve been part of it, I’ve spent weekends in these households, I’ve gotten into trouble with these kids, I’ve partaken in all of it, I know of it first hand. Low income housing in the US sounds like a wonderful charitable cause to someone like you who is not from here, but take it from someone who has seen it up close and personal, it’s a sinister game of entrapment by the government and it has had the exact results that the government has hoped for.
I work in the medical field and we have this same problem. Above a certain income threshold you no longer qualify for medicaid (Free or low-cost government healthcare for the poor) and have to pay for your own health insurance on the ACA exchange or through your employer. Having to do this can cost people thousands of dollars a year minimum. I've talked to people living in impoverished communities who stated that they had to turn down promotions or raises at their jobs because it would put them above this threshold and they would end up losing money in the process. The way the system hands out benefits to the poor is so mismanaged and needs to be looked at.