Fuck everybody who supports this.
Have you seen the endgame of section 8 housing in areas with decent property value? Ten years and people will be upside down on their mortgages. Fuck everybody who’s against this. I sacrificed a lot and bought a shithole house that needed thousands in money and hundreds of hours in renovations and am doing all the work myself so I can afford it, mortgage, PMI and hoa combined account for over 1/3rd of our combined income, so that my son could go to a decent school district, and the year I buy my house the HOA begins allowing section 8 housing in the condo portion of the neighborhood, and since then there has been a shooting, multiple robbings, and an armed fleeing suspect who actually KNOCKED ON MY DOOR and tossed the gun in my bush and got arrested in my front yard, every single case was a brand new resident in the condo area of our neighborhood.
when we moved in, chesterfield made #2 on the most coveted neighborhoods in Pasadena, that was less than 2 years ago, but the neighborhood now has a reputation of being on the decline due to these exact circumstances.
I’ve seen this happen in Elkridge already, when my parents rented a house there back in 07 they signed the lease for $1700, by the time they moved out the lease was $1600, and the next tenant was renting for $1400, why? this particular section of Elkridge had slowly Developed a reputation of being crime infested, and that came from the section 8 kids in the condo portion of the neighborhood, I know from personal expierence because that was my group of friends growing up, I was part of it.
my point is, the property value goes down sharply once the reputation is firmly in place, and the reputations are typically well earned. With section 8 comes rising crime rate, sad story but a true one, and I’m now gonna see my property value drop sharply for a house I can barely afford.
you can’t be a charitable soul at the expense of hard working middle class families. A 5% drop in property value 5 years from now would essentially ruin my life and I’d be stuck in a house that my family has outgrown already. If you can’t relate or if this problem doesn’t affect you then I’m sorry your opinion has fuckall value to those that it does.
“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.