Not the rich guys this time!
"Doors Close on Subsidized Tenants, Advocates Say" by MANNY FERNANDEZ
"With gentrification spreading into low-income areas, many landlords in struggling neighborhoods of New York City, who once welcomed tenants with federal rent subsidy vouchers, are now turning them away, according to some housing activists and real estate agents.
Many property owners and real estate agents say the program is overly cumbersome, and in a hot rental market, they say, there is no need to take on a Section 8 tenant.
With many voucher holders in the city having difficulty finding an apartment, housing activists are debating the program’s effectiveness and are raising questions about what role, if any, race and class play in some landlords’ refusal to rent to voucher holders, the majority of whom are black or Hispanic.
Unlike many cities, including Chicago and Washington, New York City — home of the largest Section 8 program in the country — has never had a law prohibiting discrimination against voucher holders.
In LIBERAL New York?
With that Pot always screaming kettle!
Ha!
After receiving vouchers from the federal government, Section 8 tenants pay about 30 percent of their income toward rent, and the vouchers cover the balance. Eligible households are those earning no more than $35,000 for a family of four in New York. The rent limits for voucher holders seeking apartments are $1,069 for a one-bedroom and $1,556 for a four-bedroom.
Try making the payments of that! But you don't need health care, New Yawker!
Omayra Cruz, 35, has been looking for an apartment, with no success, since receiving a new voucher in May. She has been eager to move from the dilapidated apartment where she and her two daughters live on East 178th Street in the Bronx. A chunk of the ceiling fell off, and Ms. Cruz says she believes that the large patches of black mold on the doors and walls have contributed to asthma attacks that she and her daughters have suffered.
Hey, we need money for WARS, beeee-ach!!!!
Ms. Cruz, who supports her family on public assistance and does not work because of health problems, said that about 30 landlords in the Bronx have turned her voucher down.
Landlords often deny Section 8 applicants as a way to mask broader discrimination against single mothers and black and Hispanic tenants. Landlords, property managers and real estate agents argue that the reluctance to take the vouchers stems from the program’s payment delays and other administrative problems.
I think them being POOR is the primary motivation!!!
POOR, and backed up by a bankrupt and corrupt government!!!!
Would you trust this government to pay it's bills?
It LOOTS and LOSES!!!
Housing activists and anti-discrimination experts concede that they have no concrete evidence that voucher holders are being turned away because of racial bias on a widespread basis.
Doncha just love the race-baiting dividers of our nation, folks!
Not the problem, but THEY WILL TURN it into one!!!!
The measure, in part that it would limit property owners’ ability to make sound financial decisions and would make Section 8 mandatory.
In April, the New York Acorn, a community organizing group, released a survey that found that of 122 available studios (with rents under $1,000) and one-bedroom apartments (with rents from $1,100 to $1,200) listed on Craigslist and in The Daily News and The New York Times, only 16 advertisers, when contacted by the Acorn researchers, were willing to accept Section 8 vouchers.
We don't want your poor; we want to MAKE $$$$$$$$$$!
And what would Jesus think?
One real estate agent said landlords had told her that one reason they do not want to take vouchers is that the Section 8 tenants do not take care of the units as well as other residents do.
It's discrimination, all right! AmeriKa's great unspoken: CLASS!!!!!!!!
A building owner in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, said he had a Section 8 tenant evicted last year after neighbors called the police about fighting and noise and the tenant stopped paying rent for months.
Hundreds of Section 8 vouchers are terminated each year because they could not be used successfully; about 1,400 have been terminated so far this year. The number of landlords who do not participate is relatively small and that there are enough landlords to meet the demand.
Well, apparently not!!!
Whatever the prospects of an anti-discrimination law, individual voucher holders in New York City are facing increasing competition.
So get the fuck out of my mother-fucking house, poor person!
In July, with a boost of federal financing for the program, the Housing Authority handed out the first of 22,000 new vouchers it will receive from the federal government over the next two years.
Because of the new vouchers, there were 10,763 voucher holders seeking apartments as of Sept. 30, the largest number in the history of the city’s program, Housing Authority officials said."
But the richers tell us all everything is great!
Sick of getting diarrhea blasts in the face, reader!
