Am I the only one that wish that Section 8 and Public housing never existed?

Question

Not all of them. Some are decent. About one or two. My neighborhood done went down in the past two years. In the city I live in about 6 projects has been torn down and rebuilt into townhomes. I guess they let the ones back in that really need the assistance and the ones that didn't make the cut, they either found somewhere else to stay or got public housing vouchers from the government. The ones to f-in lazy to go get real jobs. Now they have moved into decent working class neighborhood with their 7 gun toting kids, sorry non-working baby daddies, and their drama. Ever since they have started this the police is always in the neighborhood. I've seen their kids as young as 10 with guns. Someone house is always getting robbed when they go to work. In the past two weeks two women on separate occasion got shot while sitting in their home. One was killed. But suprise suprise, both events happened at Section 8 locations. It has got be something homeowners around the US can do to stop this.

Answer 1

It's tough, but where else are they going to live?  I worked at a homeless shelter.  Next door to the million-dollar waterfront townhomes were the projects... the kids in the projects, tiny ones in diapers, running around in the common areas 9:30 at night... despicable.  

I just sold my condo.  Every afternoon huge, fat, crass, dirty  women sitting in front, cursing, spread eagle, sitting on the park benches around the community, smoking, cursing as people came and went.  Yes, my condo community had 25 units owned by the city.  The condos ranged upwards of $400k, and we lived with condemned section-8 units in the same building.

I wish people had pride in themselves and their homes.

Answer 2

Participating in section 8 is voluntary, no "area" is forced.

If you have a complaint complain to the home owners and the police.

The police can stop the crime, the home owners can take more care in choosing renters.

I give the neighbors of all of my units my direct phone number and welcome feedback.   Landlords are rarely there, they will not know what is going on if no one tells them.

Answer 3

Its sad to see lil kids with guns.. NO I haven't seen them but wow sad~

Answer 4

Sorry, but people who say things like "you shouldn't judge them all..." blah blah blah aren't being intellectually honest ... and have probably never lived or worked in a largely section 8 area. You can't change the reality that having the government pay most or all of your rent tends to make a person not care as much about what they do to the place. EARNING where you live seems to be a thing of the past. So many people in government have guilt trips about where they live and how much they have (and, again, they've never spent much time with people on public assistance -- they praise them without really knowing any of them), that they end up making the rest of us hard-working people who EARN where we live pay the price for living with people who DON'T EARN. Yes, of course, there ARE people in public housing who are good and hard-working people who've just fallen on hard times, but no matter how many bad ones there are, it's always the bad who spoil it for the good. When people say, "there goes the neighborhood" because HUD or any public housing is coming into it, it's only because STATISTICALLY this has been the case.

My sister and I were just talking about this last evening -- the REALITY is that public housing has destroyed so many neighborhoods in this country, and it doesn't look like the government fools are done yet. The FACT IS THAT GIVING people much of their lives for free (always at the expense of those who work) DOES NOT make them better people. What makes a person a better person is achievement through hard work (and even taking some risks), and government PRETENDING that people are good regardless of statistics doesn't make it so. I truly feel for you.

Answer 5

not all people are like that. I am sorry to tell you, but you are wrong and you are judging the whole lot of peole by a few. That is predjudice. I went through that same thing recently. I judged a whole lot of people, by the attitudes and actions of ONE person,and I realized ( though am still struggling not to place judgement on this person) .

My hubby and I do not drink, use drugs or even smoke. We do not cause trouble, and our two kids are well-behaved. What you are describing is a problem best handled by the police or the landlord. Keep notes. I live in  " the projects" in the small town I live in,and there are decent people here and there are trash. Not all poor people are trash. Please stop misjudging the whole lot by a few bad apples. Look at some of the wealthy. They do drugs, and misbehave, but I do not see you judging them.Have you not seen some of the rapper deaths? They have had more money that you or I can spend in a lifetime and yet look at what had happened? Murders, drugs, ect. and that had happened with the affluent ppl, not the poor poeple you had just described. Sometimes I too wish that the problem would go away, but truth is, it won't. Not all poor people are trashy,bear illigitimate children or have drama. This too,can happen in the wealthier neighborhoods. It is not a money issue but a parenting and lifestyle issue.

Answer 6

NOT ALL SECTION 8 PEOPLE ARE LOSERS!!!!

SOME ARE DISABLED AND LEGITIMATELY UNABLE TO WORK!!

In fact there are very few that are just taking advantage of the system.  GET OFF YOUR HIGH HORSE AND MIND YOUR OWN FREAKING BUSINESS!!!!