Section 8 Housing

[TeePee4Prez]

Neutral

[TeePee4Prez]

Positive because the other realistic choice is rent control.  I'd take Section 8 over rent control any day.

I'd rather have rent control.

[TeePee4Prez]

Maybe I should say "Mixed" rather than "Neutral" with regards to Section 8 housing.  Many of the points dazzleman brought up such as drugs and loud music blasting out of a Cadillac Escalade at 3 o' clock in the morning I witnessed firsthand.  I also realize between the cracks there is a mother with small children trying to better their situation and only needs Section 8 as a temporary measure.  I think there should be a maximum number of tenants per block and caseworkers to police the program to weed out any abuses. 

I also realize that there are some Archie Bunkers in this world who like to say the "blacks" are the problem and associate Section 8 with the blacks and John Street, blah blah blah.  The media does in fact make African Americans the scapegoats and working class whites wrongly buy into the propaganda while all the long there are whites in working class neighborhoods such as Bridesburg or Tacony in NE Philly who are on the program themselves, but no one suspects them of being on Section 8 because they are white.  Some of these people drink all hours of the night, smoke their Marlboro Reds and blast their music as well.

[TeePee4Prez]

Negative, the motels along the highway in my town have been turned into Section 8s for the last few years, and the impact has been terrible.  Crime has gone up here, almost 85% of the crime coming out of those motels.  We have crackheads wandering around asking for money all the time and harassing local businesses.  Where I work, some f'ed up moron who lives in one of them came into the store, harassed customers, and didn't leave until we has to get forceful with him.  Cheap housing attracts crime and other bullsh**t so Section 8 housing should only be put up in areas that suck already. 

Ahh, US 130.  Lots of trucker hotels and prostitution along that stretch of highway.  I sometimes wonder who actually goes into them besides the people I mentiones.

[TeePee4Prez]

Some of these people drink all hours of the night, smoke their Marlboro Reds and blast their music as well.

I'm sure rich people also stay up all night and blast their music as well, but no one bother to judge them so harshly.  The point is that personal habits that are labeled 'good' or 'bad' by judgemental prudes are found in all classes.  It isn't personal habits that make a poor a poor, it is the lack of power.

I for one always stay up all night and sleep all day - it just seems so much more pleasant than the workaday schedule with all the traffic and the sun beating down.

They are more frequent about it and worse, I hate to say it.  Sure I know rich teenagers and college kids are the worst drug addicts, but they definitely cause less of a nuisance and do it on weekends.  I have come home from work at 2 a.m. and seen what I just described.  dazzleman and HockeyDude are right, Section 8 has it's ugly side and you don't have to be conservative to think that way.  I know the area Hockey Dude's talking about fairly well and US 130 in West Central NJ can look very seedy at times.