A family in public housing makes $498,000. HUD wants them to stay.

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Star Member mfcorey1 (5,641 posts)

A family in public housing makes $498,000. HUD wants them to stay.


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, continued to reside in public housing units,” investigators for Inspector General David Montoya wrote.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/a-family-in-public-housing-makes-dollar498000-hud-wants-them-to-stay/ar-BBlOM1x?ocid=mailsignout

MADem (115,315 posts)
1. I don't think they should be kicked out, but I think they should pay WAY more in rent.

Having some high earners in the neighborhood is good for diversity--just charge them "the going rate" for a private unit of the same size and amenities. Take away any "taxpayer subsidies" and charge what the market would bear for such a home.

Then use the extra money towards more public housing for those who are less advantaged.

What?

alarimer (13,552 posts)
14. Exactly.

I've lived in apartment complexes that did that. Some people qualified for Section 8 (income requirements), but those who didn't (including me) paid market rates, which, in Texas, was still fairly low.
Edited to add:

It wasn't public housing, per se, but a private landlord that agreed to take tenants on housing assistance. But it was a nice neighborhood and I'm sure the lower-income folks benefited from that (better schools, less crime, etc) and it didn't appear to increase problems there at all.

DUmmies are mad that they did not hit the welfare jackpot.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027087264

[obumazombie]

There's something very wrong here, and I can't quite put my finger on it yet.
But I'm going to mull on it for awhile, and hopefully be able to express the reservations that I have.
There's something Solyndra-y about this.

[Carl]

As a corollary and showing exactly what the left thinks of the black population.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027084781


 Mon Aug 17, 2015, 08:42 AM

Star Member DonViejo (16,703 posts)

The willful race based destruction of a generation of kids

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    One fateful decision. Years of neglect.
    Five once-average schools remade into the worst in Florida.
    FAILURE FACTORIES



By CARA FITZPATRICK, LISA GARTNER and MICHAEL LaFORGIA
Photographs by DIRK SHADD
Times Staff

In just eight years, Pinellas County School Board members turned five schools in the county’s black neighborhoods into some of the worst in Florida.

First they abandoned integration, leaving the schools overwhelmingly poor and black.

Then they broke promises of more money and resources.

Then — as black children started failing at outrageous rates, as overstressed teachers walked off the job, as middle class families fled en masse — the board stood by and did nothing.

Today thousands of children are paying the price, a Tampa Bay Times investigation has found.

They are trapped at Campbell Park, Fairmount Park, Lakewood, Maximo and Melrose — five neighborhood elementary schools that the board has transformed into failure factories.

Every year, they turn out a staggering number of children who don’t know the basics.

Eight in 10 fail reading, according to state standardized test scores. Nine in 10 fail math.

more
http://www.tampabay.com/projects/2015/investigations/pinellas-failure-factories/5-schools-segregation/

In other words,the only way for black kids have to be a success is to have white kids among them.