http://www.myfoxatlanta.com/dpp/news/lo ... 0811-am-sd
Just saw the blurb on the news. Apparently, things got really ugly when people got tired of waiting for a form that'd put them on the list for Section 8 (government subsidized) housing. One woman said she'd been trying to get into Section 8 program for 17 years. What would happen if she put that kind of energy into improving her lot in life, rather than putting so much effort into squeezing into an open spot at the trough?
Then again, I'm just a poor sap, self-employed, long-term small business owner.
Sigh.
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Big Brouhaha over Section 8 vouchers in Atlanta
Big Brouhaha over Section 8 vouchers in Atlanta
by hope_full » Wed 11 Aug 2010, 14:01:22
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Re: Big Brouhaha over Section 8 vouchers in Atlanta
by mlit » Wed 11 Aug 2010, 14:36:24
seems similar to scenes of refugees lined up for food being tossed from the back of relief truck
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Re: Big Brouhaha over Section 8 vouchers in Atlanta
by Sixstrings » Wed 11 Aug 2010, 16:41:48
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30,000 line up for housing vouchers, some get rowdy
Thirty thousand people showed up to receive Section 8 housing applications in East Point Wednesday, suffering through hours in the hot sun, angry flare-ups in the crowd and lots of frustration and confusion for a chance to receive a government-subsidized apartment.
The massive event sometimes descended into a chaotic mob scene filled with anger and impatience. Some 62 people needed medical attention and 20 of them were transported to a hospital, authorities said. A baby went into a seizure in the heat and was stabilized at a hospital. People were removed on stretchers and when a throng of people who had been waiting hours in a line were told to move to another line, people started pushing, shoving and cursing, witnesses said.
Still, officials of East Point declared the day a success.
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Kim Lemish, executive director of the East Point Housing Authority, said the event marked the first time the city has offered Section 8 housing applications since 2002. The waiting list that lasted eight years had depleted, she said, and the agency was beginning a new one.
http://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta/30-00030-000-line-up-589653.html
30,000 line up for housing vouchers, some get rowdy
Thirty thousand people showed up to receive Section 8 housing applications in East Point Wednesday, suffering through hours in the hot sun, angry flare-ups in the crowd and lots of frustration and confusion for a chance to receive a government-subsidized apartment.
The massive event sometimes descended into a chaotic mob scene filled with anger and impatience. Some 62 people needed medical attention and 20 of them were transported to a hospital, authorities said. A baby went into a seizure in the heat and was stabilized at a hospital. People were removed on stretchers and when a throng of people who had been waiting hours in a line were told to move to another line, people started pushing, shoving and cursing, witnesses said.
Still, officials of East Point declared the day a success.
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Kim Lemish, executive director of the East Point Housing Authority, said the event marked the first time the city has offered Section 8 housing applications since 2002. The waiting list that lasted eight years had depleted, she said, and the agency was beginning a new one.
http://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta/30-00030-000-line-up-589653.html
Welcome to Third World America -- even though a baby had a seizure and 20 people were transported to the hospital, "officials of East Point declared the day a success."
You know, it really shouldn't be rocket science for our society to build some affordable apartments for the poor. They have public housing in the UK, and from what I gather there aren't 12 year waiting lists and lines of 30,000 people at these once a decade "time to make a new waiting list" events.
I wonder how Canada handles public housing.. is the US the only firstworld nation that does it this way?
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Re: Big Brouhaha over Section 8 vouchers in Atlanta
by Pretorian » Wed 11 Aug 2010, 16:59:20
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mlit', 's')eems similar to scenes of refugees lined up for food being tossed from the back of relief truck
same balls different angle.. oh , sorry: same Negroes different location
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Re: Big Brouhaha over Section 8 vouchers in Atlanta
by deMolay » Wed 11 Aug 2010, 17:21:44
Just heard on the news, that the funds for the 26B bailout of Federal Public Service workers yesterday, or vote buying whatever. That the funds were taken from the Food Stamp Program. I imagine folks will like that one as well.
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Re: Big Brouhaha over Section 8 vouchers in Atlanta
by ian807 » Wed 11 Aug 2010, 17:23:21
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Sixstrings', 'I') wonder how Canada handles public housing.. is the US the only firstworld nation that does it this way?
I don't know about Canada, but we in the USA are stupid bordering on criminal when we do it.
First, we build large apartment buildings so we can put all the poor people together so they only interact with other poor people and build up a nice solid culture of poverty.
We build these buildings in the crappiest area of town where there are few services and grocery stores, banks, doctors, etc. so those in the projects must spend precious money and time traveling long distances to bank, buy basic groceries, get medical assistance and so on. Since there is little residential tax base to support the schools, it's a guarantee that schools in the area will be underfunded and staffed by teachers who can get no other work, and who rotate out as quickly as possible.
After that, we put the nastiest, most borderline cops we can in the area to regularly beat and terrorize the inhabitants (ala the "Training Day" movie). While we call it "affordable housing" what it really becomes is "minimum security prison." This is the invisible cage in which the project inhabitants live, and everyone else avoids.
Of course, spreading out affordable housing to multiple neighborhoods, allowing poor children to attend schools with wealthier ones, where they learn about money and responsibility and correct behavior and health care and so on wouldn't eliminate the problem, but at least it would be a strategy to correct the situation long term.
We don't think long term, of course. America is the country of the quick fix and "not in my back yard."
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Re: Big Brouhaha over Section 8 vouchers in Atlanta
by Ludi » Wed 11 Aug 2010, 17:43:24
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ian807', '
')First, we build large apartment buildings so we can put all the poor people together so they only interact with other poor people and build up a nice solid culture of poverty.
')First, we build large apartment buildings so we can put all the poor people together so they only interact with other poor people and build up a nice solid culture of poverty.
If they weren't lazy and stupid they would "pull themselves up by their bootstraps" and "paddle their own canoe" out of there. It's the American way!
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