RTS is taking a very difficult unpopular stance.....but he is being honest. I too have worked hard to get a home in a good, safe neighborhood. I would not want to see my neighborhood become section 8.

 

 

No one is saying all poor people are criminals. However, lets face it, the more section 8 housing, the greater the crime in the area. It is what it is.

 

Now, who can HONESTLY answer his question. Would you want your next door neighbors to be in section 8 housing?

 

After we run them out for being section 8, are we all gonna put on white hoods and burn a cross on the lawns of those other pesky neighbors, or are we going to do this to the people in section 8 housing as well.

 

It is a slippery slope when we start kicking people out of neighborhoods for monetary and aesthetics reasons.

I can handle the Section 8ers.

I cannot handle the squirrels.

:flame::lol::laugh:

They both have their own certain charms.

After we run them out for being section 8, are we all gonna put on white hoods and burn a cross on the lawns of those other pesky neighbors, or are we going to do this to the people in section 8 housing as well.

 

It is a slippery slope when we start kicking people out of neighborhoods for monetary and aesthetics reasons.

Wow, 4 pages and you still either don't get it or don't want to. Anything to offer that isn't rhetoric?

RTS is taking a very difficult unpopular stance.....but he is being honest. I too have worked hard to get a home in a good, safe neighborhood. I would not want to see my neighborhood become section 8.

 

 

No one is saying all poor people are criminals. However, lets face it, the more section 8 housing, the greater the crime in the area. It is what it is.

 

Now, who can HONESTLY answer his question. Would you want your next door neighbors to be in section 8 housing?

Thank you Beechwoodfan, you and Birdsfan have a very good grasp of the problem. There is a very good reason they aren't answering my question.

I'm sorry, RTS, but I stand by my statements. Section 8 is not the problem. The abusers are, and the landlords who don't ensure that their property is taken care of. Landlords have rights and responsibilities, including what happens on their property. If they know of issues, it's their responsibility to deal with it.

 

You are for blackballing all Section 8 housing in certain areas. That's segregation, and it does nothing to solve the problem you speak of, other than make sure it's not next to you, the "keep them out" theory.

 

I stand by what I say.

You certainly have every right to be wrong.

Wow, 4 pages and you still either don't get it or don't want to. Anything to offer that isn't rhetoric?

 

I don't care, let them live by me. I have lived in really bad neighborhoods before, filled with good people and bad people. It is what you make of it, they have to live somewhere.

I don't care, let them live by me. I have lived in really bad neighborhoods before, filled with good people and bad people. It is what you make of it, they have to live somewhere.

You own your own house?

You own your own house?

 

I rent, but I take great pride in my house. I have no problem what someone does next door, I stop caring after the property line.

I rent, but I take great pride in my house. I have no problem what someone does next door, I stop caring after the property line.

:lol: You have soooo much to learn.

So you'd be OK if they were selling drugs out of their house, or tuned it into a crack house or something of that nature?

:lol: You have soooo much to learn.

So you'd be OK if they were selling drugs out of their house, or tuned it into a crack house or something of that nature?

 

What they do on their property is there own business.

What about when what they do on their property brings the value of your property down?

What they do on their property is there own business.

And if there's a bad drug deal as you're walking from your car to your house and you get hit by a stray bullet? This sort of scenario happens more than you think.

What about when what they do on their property brings the value of your property down?

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I would like to hear from someone that seriously wouldn't care if their neighborhood went Section 8, especially if it was the house next to them. Would you embrace it or try to fight it?

A few thoughts/questions:

 

Landlords are not compelled to accept Section 8 tenants. Why are they not looked upon with the same, or more, disdain than the tenants themselves?

 

Section 8 tenants all have one thing in common: they are poor. Are all poor lawless?

 

Section 8 tenants are subject to screening by the landlord, required annual inspections, and can lose their Section 8 eligibility. What do these entail and how can one lose their eligibility?

 

If the qualm against Section 8 tenants is that they both debilitate the property and bring criminal activity, why are they not evicted for destroying the property and why is law enforcement unable to handle it (particularly if it is obvious)?