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section 8 reform in congress - 4/24/2008 6:43:57 AM

pahunkboy

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http://www.cbpp.org/3-10-08hous.htm

I am surprised by this. I thought the program would be eliminated by now.

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RE: section 8 reform in congress - 4/24/2008 7:05:57 AM

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This is the program that destroyed my old neighborhood, and it drives up the cost of housing for working people. It's a shame my local paper only archives online for a week, or I'd link to a few of the stories of blatant abuse and fraud. The lady and her husband with the Hummer, Mercedes SUV and S-Class in the driveway was a real blood-boiler.

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RE: section 8 reform in congress - 4/24/2008 10:04:41 AM

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ok, this is a subject that totally pisses me off. At the risk of airing my dirty laundry,i am on a fixed income and it's really annoying and disheartening when you see welfare Mothers living on Section 8 with 12 kids and her crackhead old man. Driving expensive cars and selling drugs to school kids and or pimping out there girlfriends.Plus there on all kinds of programs, food stamps and things of that nature. I have recently been put into a situation through no fault of my own, that i re-located 2 hours away from my home city to get a house with my best friend 3 months later she decides to break the lease and now i have to move and stretch my monthly income for the move. i don't know if your familair with SSI/Disability but it's not something you can live well on. So needless to say i had to apply for emergency housing, per my income level ican't get a job unless it's through a program such as Voc Rehab or Goodwill and that's bitch to get involved with it takes forever. Now i am faced with moving in to a high rise that is only 500 sq ft as opposed to the house i amcurrently living in which is 940 sq ft. but i will manage. They took my food stamps away. But does the government care about the people who really need programs to further there education, or just get by in life. i don't want to be lumped into living on a fixed income, yet i feel very sorry for the people who deserve it and can't get a break if only peope out there new the hell you have to go through just to get the benefits it's horrible and very degrading.... i don't vote so maybe i haven't any reason to be upset with this subject it's just personal....

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RE: section 8 reform in congress - 4/24/2008 12:25:01 PM

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I almost went in the highrise. I got lucky, and the opportunity to own came around. [yeah it took some clawing]

They are very small. There are numerous rules.   Ild rather live in a camper then an elderly highrise.

I get wrote up enough in a private house.

As far as being in a pricey area- metro, no thank you.   small towns have more to offer, if you are in a stable small town. I did not think I would like it. there is a different mentality. but it is better then paying tons of $ for rent and being burglarized every month.

I expect them to cap this and other progams.

oh-= the societal crankiness that goes with that is lame. although- walk a mile in ones shoes,,,

as far as neighborhoods going bad- happens alot.   I dont know how much has to do with section 8. abandonned properties are not good either.

if no one gives a darn about the block- then the bad feeds on itself- takes on a life of its own- and grows like a virus. no one wants to flee their home. been there- done that. so I can see that concern. when 6 bullets come thru my window, and the gangs torch my house; [in chicago in the 80s]   then that sucks. i walked away with my life- which in itself was lucky.

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