Iowa City Council may grant 'Section 8' participants protected status

[zwick99]

Not mine. We are doing just fine with it.

Really? What school? Anyone want to bet there is no section 8 housing students at that school? Probably a private school or charter that keeps out the criminal element.

A liberal's idea of diversity is 99% affluent white, .9% affluent Asians and .01% affluent blacks.

 

[BondHawk]

one of my friends was texting me today and telling me her mom has called her three times in the past two days to brag about the luxurious apartment she just moved into and told her that it was too bad that she wasn't poor because she would never be able to live in a place as fabulous as the one she is in. she doesn't live in Iowa City, but is in subsidized housing.

also told me that her sister (who has a ton of kids and is on every type of assistance imagineable) posted on facebook that Rent a Center was knocking on her door looking for money and that they weren't going to get it because she was so broke and only had money for going out this weekend.

her mom and her sister are always going to riverside and tama while the government foots the bill for their food stamps and housing.

You might want to look into getting new friends.

 

[Titanhawk2]

You asked for an example. There are at least 6 schools I wouldn't send my kid to because of behavioral issues. Yes this is an issue and you getting angry about it doesn't mean it isn't an issue.

http://www.zillow.com/iowa-city-ia/...city-ia/schools/elementary/p=2&level=elem,mid

The three worst rated elementary schools are three of the 5 elementary schools with greater than 50% minority enrollment on page 29. The other two weren't listed.

 

[theIowaHawk]

I love that posters are worried about the IC school district on here.

 

[Phenomenally Frantastic]

Iowa City City Council protecting it's voting bloc.

You know it's true.

 

[Phenomenally Frantastic]

one of my friends was texting me today and telling me her mom has called her three times in the past two days to brag about the luxurious apartment she just moved into and told her that it was too bad that she wasn't poor because she would never be able to live in a place as fabulous as the one she is in. she doesn't live in Iowa City, but is in subsidized housing.

also told me that her sister (who has a ton of kids and is on every type of assistance imagineable) posted on facebook that Rent a Center was knocking on her door looking for money and that they weren't going to get it because she was so broke and only had money for going out this weekend.

her mom and her sister are always going to riverside and tama while the government foots the bill for their food stamps and housing.

Somewhere, a Democrat is smiling.

 

[theIowaHawk]

Iowa City City Council protecting it's voting bloc.

You know it's true.

You think section 8 residents are voting in sufficient numbers to matter to the entire council?

 

[Phenomenally Frantastic]

You think section 8 residents are voting in sufficient numbers to matter to the entire council?

1200+ families that have very real incentive to vote for one party in order to keep their government assistance? sure they matter.

this also employs several government employees overseeing this program. who do you think these employees will vote for?

I'll give you one guess!

 

[Phenomenally Frantastic]

weird, no rebuttal from the resident liberals. truth must sting too much.

as a corollary, Democratic voters everybody:

http://thehill.com/regulation/admin...uilds-over-wealthy-families-in-public-housing

 

[ChrisVarick]

1200+ families that have very real incentive to vote for one party in order to keep their government assistance? sure they matter.

this also employs several government employees overseeing this program. who do you think these employees will vote for?

I'll give you one guess!

I'm not a liberal but I will give you a rebuttal and give you two reasons why you are wrong about these 1200+ families effecting local elections.

First, the majority of these people are disconnected from the community and do not participate in local elections. They do not read the papers and know the election dates. They do not know where to go. They do not know what the platform of the candidates or who to vote for.

Second, you are projecting your own rational thinking on these people. If the government is giving you things of course you go out and vote to protect this system. That is not how these people think. They have a low locus of control. They do not think that they are in control or can effect things. You have people that live in government housing and don't really see the possibility of advancement besides that they got out of Chicago. These are generalizations but they are inactive and depressed. That is the reason why you can go into a unit of a person that doesn't work, doesn't have anything to do, but the unit has clothes thrown all over the places and dirty dishes piled up in every room.

Look at the pictures from the local Democratic caucuses. The location at the Coralville Performing Arts Center was 97% white and it is surrounded by apartments where low income black people live. That was a major national event and they knew the date, time and candidates. Yet they did not show up and attend. But you think that they are going out to vote in a local election? Wrong.

 

[who r u]

weird, no rebuttal from the resident liberals. truth must sting too much.

as a corollary, Democratic voters everybody:

http://thehill.com/regulation/admin...uilds-over-wealthy-families-in-public-housing

did you even read the article that you linked?

Lawmakers from both parties are outraged about wealthy families who are living in subsidized housing intended for the poor.

Republicans and Democrats say people are “gaming the system”

"Public housing should be for the needy, not the greedy,” Rep. Al Green (D-Texas)

Whereas the wealthier people who are living in public housing can fend for themselves, said Rep. G. K. Butterfield (D-N.C.), the chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus.

"If someone is living in public housing making a quarter of a million dollars a year, they should not be living there,” Butterfield told The Hill.

 

[UNIowaHawk]

This is just the opposite of what I would be going for. I would require welfare plates on cars, different ID's, and maybe an asterisk on their door so people know who the leaches are.

 

[zwick99]

Diversity destroys schools and neighborhoods.

 

[jamesvanderwulf]

Chicago's biggest owner of subsidized housing is Obama ad visor Valerie Jarrett who along with her husband own over 40 million dollars worth of gov't subsidized housing.

CHICAGO - The squat brick buildings of Grove Parc Plaza, in a dense neighborhood that Barack Obama represented for eight years as a state senator, hold 504 apartments subsidized by the federal government for people who can't afford to live anywhere else.

But it's not safe to live here.

About 99 of the units are vacant, many rendered uninhabitable by unfixed problems, such as collapsed roofs and fire damage. Mice scamper through the halls. Battered mailboxes hang open. Sewage backs up into kitchen sinks. In 2006, federal inspectors graded the condition of the complex an 11 on a 100-point scale - a score so bad the buildings now face demolition.

Grove Parc has become a symbol for some in Chicago of the broader failures of giving public subsidies to private companies to build and manage affordable housing - an approach strongly backed by Obama as the best replacement for public housing.

As a state senator, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee coauthored an Illinois law creating a new pool of tax credits for developers. As a US senator, he pressed for increased federal subsidies. And as a presidential candidate, he has campaigned on a promise to create an Affordable Housing Trust Fund that could give developers an estimated $500 million a year.

But a Globe review found that thousands of apartments across Chicago that had been built with local, state, and federal subsidies - including several hundred in Obama's former district - deteriorated so completely that they were no longer habitable.

Grove Parc and several other prominent failures were developed and managed by Obama's close friends and political supporters. Those people profited from the subsidies even as many of Obama's constituents suffered. Tenants lost their homes; surrounding neighborhoods were blighted.

You can inform yourself better, if you've got the stomach for it:
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/06/27/grim_proving_ground_for_obamas_housing_policy/