The chasm between a TEA party member and a leftist sh!tweasel can be illustrated nicely by this story:
A family of four in New York City makes $497,911 a year but pays $1,574 a month to live in public housing in a three-bedroom apartment subsidized by taxpayers.
In Los Angeles, a family of five that’s lived in public housing since 1974 made $204,784 last year but paid $1,091 for a four-bedroom apartment. And a tenant with assets worth $1.6 million — including stocks, real estate and retirement accounts — last year paid $300 for a one-bedroom apartment in public housing in Oxford, Neb.
In a new report, the watchdog for the Department of Housing and Urban Development describes these and more than 25,000 other “over income” families earning more than the maximum income for government-subsidized housing as an “egregious” abuse of the system. While the family in New York with an annual income of almost $500,000 raked in $790,500 in rental income on its real estate holdings in recent years, more than 300,000 families that really qualify for public housing lingered on waiting lists, auditors found.
But HUD has no plans to kick these families out, because its policy doesn’t require over-income tenants to leave, the agency’s inspector general found. In fact, it encourages them to stay in public housing.
“Since regulations and policies did not require housing authorities to evict over income families or require them to find housing in the unassisted market, [they] continued to reside in public housing units,” investigators for Inspector General David Montoya wrote.
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Yeah, government works! The DemoRATS have finally figured out a simple and effective way to rob Peter to pay Paul! Bernie is ecstatic and Hillary is still drooling on about servers!
Everybody lives only so long and there’s this thing called God. That’s my brains’ Reset button.
And a single mom friend of mine can’t get a loan to buy a house and is paying though the nose for a rental unit.
Eradicate the left.
Public housing is of course, available here in Canada but the rent is usually a percentage of your income verified by tax returns and other means. You have to be of limited income (doesn’t matter where from, a job, welfare, pension etc) and there is a waiting list. You get limited choice on where you want to live and when you do get a place (they’re aren’t great but generally clean and safe) the rent is 30% of your monthly income. You’re allowed to be out of the country for three months a year and have to show all your financials each year in an interview to ensure you still qualify. If you go over the threshold of income and you;re congratulated and asked to leave to make room for someone else. Sounds like HUD could learn a few things from our system which, while not perfect, seems a bunch better.