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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: Freeper on December 02, 2012, 08:42:53 AM
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xchrom (84,706 posts)
This Week in Poverty: A Wake-Up Call on Housing and Homelessness
http://www.thenation.com/blog/171534/week-poverty-wake-call-housing-and-homelessness
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Indeed, the Campaign for Housing and Community Development Funding (CHCDF)—a group of seventy-four national organizations across the country—estimates that the 8.4 percent cut to housing and community development programs that would occur in January under sequestration would result in: a $1.6 billion cut in tenant-based rental assistance, with 185,000 households losing assistance; an $830 million cut in project-based rental assistance, with more than 92,000 households losing their housing if the cuts aren’t restored; a $180 million cut to homeless assistance grants—nearly 146,000 people would be homeless instead of housed; a $32 million cut to housing for the elderly, with 114,000 households receiving reduced unit maintenance and supportive services; a $28 million cut to housing opportunities for persons with AIDS, resulting in more than 4,700 households losing their housing; and a $13 million cut in housing for persons with disabilities, leading to more than 24,500 households receiving reduced unit maintenance and supportive services.
At a time when there are only thirty affordable and available rental units for every 100 extremely low income households, and low-income housing programs serve only about one of four people who qualify for them, sequestration would negatively affect more than 440,000 households currently receiving assistance.
Further, as the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) notes in a paper released this week, funding for housing has already been cut by 6 percent, or $2.5 billion, since 2010. Meanwhile, the number of low-income renter households paying housing costs of more than 50 percent of their income—a financial burden associated with an increased risk of homelessness—has risen by 14 percent over the past two years.
“Federal rental assistance programs have been treading water, while the need for assistance has been climbing dramatically since 2007,†report author Douglas Rice, a senior policy analyst at CBPP, told me
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021914956
How can this be? I thought when we elected Mr hope n change that homelessness would be a thing of the past.
In fact homelessness only ever exists when a repuke is in the white house, same as high gas prices being bad.
marmar (58,070 posts)
3. True. The topic of poverty is almost as absent here as it is from Official Washington.
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When you are trying to build a legacy for your preezy it's not a good idea to discuss mass poverty that has occurred under that preezy.
99Forever (2,552 posts)
6. What the hay..
... they're just poor people, they don't really count.
What you say sarcastically is actually true. Poor people don't really count unless 0bama needs their vote, at which time he will promise them every freebie he can dream up.
In fact 0bama needs poverty in order to gain support for his agenda. If the economy was doing good and most people were doing well there would not be such a huge desire to soak the rich, but when you have mass poverty and tons of folks suffering it is easier to make them resent the rich and want to punish them.
If 0bama had really given us economic miracles then he and his desired policies would not be needed, people would be providing for themselves enjoying the prosperity and not worried how many cars and houses Mitt Romney has. The only people who would be demanding that 0bama soak the rich would the be the malcontents at the DUmp, who even in good economic times still manage to stay poor.
This is why 0bama wants us to go right over the fiscal cliff, the more people suffering the more people will turn to him demanding a fix, and they won't give a damn what he does to "fix" it.
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Hey, as long as they can be counted on to vote for the Democrat, what's the problem?
:whatever:
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Once more they tip toe up to reality but refuse to cross into it.
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Why are they homeless in the first place dummies? This is as much a social issue as an economic one.
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Why are they homeless in the first place dummies? This is as much a social issue as an economic one.
They are homeless because we don't tax the rich enough.
Of course that seems to be the cause of all problems.
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marmar (58,070 posts)
3. True. The topic of poverty is almost as absent here as it is from Official Washington.
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Where is Bobo And The Magical Buick when you need them?
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Good. Maybe these low income folks will then have an incentive to get off their ass and better themselves.
Ain't holding my breath, though.
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BantheGOP showed up to the thread, if anyone cares. Nobody replied to him after this:
Response to xchrom (Original post)
Sun Dec 2, 2012, 03:32 PM
BanTheGOP (939 posts)
7. Thank Reaganomics and the rest of the republicanist bastards
This is not the fault of anyone on the Democrat side. In fact, they have for YEARS tried to stand up to the GOP, but in fact the overwhelming hate that they have for non-white, non-rich people have led to this condition. Just think if President Obama had lost in 2008; EVERYONE but the rich republicanist elite would be in poverty.
It is NOT a time to ignore, but to put the blame SQUARELY where it lies. First, on the US House of Representatives, who have blockaded any legislative relief, forcing President Obama to start using the Executive Order directives more fully. Second, this is for all the selfish, inherently repressive red states, or states controlled by the Nazis. THEY steal federal monies for themselves, so cities in blue states which give to society are forced to house more impoverished progressive citizens.
It is TIME to DOUBLE DOWN on DESTROYING the GOP, any way possible. Voting is not enough; we must enact laws that make it difficult, if not impossible, to remain republican and have any sort of economic liability toward oneself.
Destroy the GOP...NOW!!
:yawn: Foolish as always.
The availability of low income housing would be much greater if the people who lived there didn't act like animals. There is zero incentive to not absolutely trash the place.
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BanTheGOP
... so cities in blue states which give to society are forced to house more impoverished progressive citizens.
You see that? The blue states don't do it because it's right or out of the goodness of their hearts. They're FORCED to house more impoverished citizens. FORCED I tell you. And not just any impoverished citizen, but "progressive" impoverished citizens. Those impoverished citizens who aren't progressive, screw 'em.
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You see that? The blue states don't do it because it's right or out of the goodness of their hearts. They're FORCED to house more impoverished citizens. FORCED I tell you. And not just any impoverished citizen, but "progressive" impoverished citizens. Those impoverished citizens who aren't progressive, screw 'em.
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They're building some new free housing for the "underprivileged in my small town right now....WHY?.....so they won't move to a blue state.
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The DUmbocraps need the poor to stay in power.......................
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The availability of low income housing would be much greater if the people who lived there didn't act like animals.
It's not an act.
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It's not an act.
True.
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Great article on this subject
How the Government Class Lives
Posted by Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog
http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2012/12/how-government-class-lives.html
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Great article on this subject
How the Government Class Lives
Posted by Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog
http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2012/12/how-government-class-lives.html
That was superb.
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I have a rental that is zoned R3 but only has enough lot to build two residential units. Less than a block away the city is paying to put up some section 8 low income condos/townhouses. Same zoning, same lot size. Since it is for the pooooooor they are going to allow the building of four 1 bedrooms, two 2 bedrooms, and a 3 bedroom. That is R7 zoning. and this project flew through planning in less than two months. Almost 12 years ago to just remodel, not major, I was in planning for almost 9 months and I didn't fight a single thing. that is just typical turn around time.
In short, this is not a nation of any semblance of laws. We in kalifornia have a third world government of men not laws and of who you know not what you can do. Coming soon to the rest of the USA thanks to low info voters.
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I have a rental that is zoned R3 but only has enough lot to build two residential units. Less than a block away the city is paying to put up some section 8 low income condos/townhouses. Same zoning, same lot size. Since it is for the pooooooor they are going to allow the building of four 1 bedrooms, two 2 bedrooms, and a 3 bedroom. That is R7 zoning. and this project flew through planning in less than two months. Almost 12 years ago to just remodel, not major, I was in planning for almost 9 months and I didn't fight a single thing. that is just typical turn around time.
In short, this is not a nation of any semblance of laws. We in kalifornia have a third world government of men not laws and of who you know not what you can do. Coming soon to the rest of the USA thanks to low info voters.
My daddy and a few others fought 'planning and zoning' for years. Whenever it was proposed you could tell who owned what by the zoning.....it finally passed in the 90's because of some ruling from the Bill Clinton administration. My daddy didn't live to see it passed....thank goodness.