What they do on their property is there own business.

 

Absolutely wrong there.

 

You would have no problem with an illegal activity going on next door to you?

 

Would you call the police.

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

 

I absolutely understand your point.

 

But there are things that are more important than the almighty dollar.

I absolutely understand your point.

 

But there are things that are more important than the almighty dollar.

 

No argument there but if my neighbor by either letting their property become rundown or by performing illegal activities on their property causes the value of my property to go down then they have infringed on me. I thought that surely a person who puts as much stock into personal freedoms as some on here seem to would take umbrage to that.

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?

 

Having grown up in Section 8 housing, and having a father who has been a Section 8 landlord, IMO the problem lies not in the system, but the people taking advantage of the system. When we were growing up, my father demanded that our place was impecable, and did as much as he could to demand the same of our Section 8 neighbors. Our neighbors took pride in making sure our neighborhood looked good. He demands the same today from all of his tenants.

 

When I was in college, I rented from a landlord who owned other Section 8 Property in the same neighborhood. The neighborhood fit the negative sterotype of a Section 8 neighborhood and the landlord did not expect anything other than negatives. He did not take responsible care of his property.

 

The neighborhood I live in currenty is definitley not Section 8, but there have been residents that would fit the negative stereotypes. We as a neighborhood have used pressure and suggestions to influence those to treat thier property better(it worked).

 

From my experiences, if the types of tennants that lived around me in Section 8 while I was growing up moved in my neighborhood, I would not care. In fact, my neighborhood might actually be better taken care of. Its not that I think poorer people work harder than middle class people, it's just this group of people took pride in what they did have, and had high expectations of what they should do, and what others should do.

Question for those who oppose Section 8 housing in their neighborhood. (I am one also but as I said earlier, my neighborhood is unzoned so it's a different scenario).

 

In a neighborhood that nice wouldn't the rent be exhorbitant for government standards?

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.

 

Burning crosses? What does that have to do with this? No one said to kick them out either. I just wouldnt want to see it started in the first place.

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.

 

You will likely feel differently when you have a couple hundred thousand of your hard earned money invested in your home. I think you will care a LOT more then.

I know here in Ludlow the city has implemented regulations on the homeowners to ensure that the properties are well maintained. Also if the police are continually called to the property the property owner is fined as well as the tenants. It seems to be having a positive effect, but it does take time.

And where does the command, to shake the dust off your feet and move on fit into your view?

 

It again is not talking about the poor, it is talking about those who didn't want to hear and follow the gospel and were not providing hospitality themselves. You are still quoting the same story and it is not about taking care of the poor _ and you know it>