🚀 go-pugleaf

Wayne C. Leake wrote:
> 
> Russel H. Rahn "Russ" wrote:
> 
> > Tony wrote:
> > >
> > > On Thu, 07 May 1998 07:32:44 -0500, WillWork4food
> > <work4food@gte.net>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > >In my area, Long Beach, the waiting list for Section 8 is from 3 to
> > 5
> > > >years.  I doubt if its much different elseware.
> > >
> > > Wow, I had no idea it would be so long.  I guess I better brace for
> > > the long haul.
> > >
> >
> > I always wondered, "If someone could exist for three to five years
> > without the assistance (as they waited on the list), do they really
> > need
> > the assistance?"
> >
> > I am a landlord.  Generally, landlords with decent housing in a decent
> >
> > area hate Section 8.  Most tenants pay rent on time, or only slightly
> > late, so why put up with the gov. BS.  It is in bad areas where
> > landlords cannot get good tenants, that landlords go to Section 8.  It
> >
> > is better to get Sec. 8 money and put up with the paperwork,
> > inspections, etc. required for the program, than to get nothing at
> > all.
> 
> >  <much deleted to keep bandwidth down)
> 
> > If many of you would see the 48" TV sets I have seen in Sec 8
> > apartments, you would die.  Today's poor are not those on the system.
> > From what I have seen most of them do OK (except for the drug
> > addicts).
> > The poor are those that make just enough to not qualify for aid, or
> > feel
> > they should not ask for a handout.
> >
> > Got to run.
> >
> > These are my opinions, and do not reflect the opinions of my employer.
> >
> > Russ
> 
>  Sad that you only see that part of it. There are. however, many like
> myself who are disabled, and cannot afford decent apartments without
> help.

I should have said there are many such as you.  You are the people I
believe Section 8 should be used for.  Instead, the limited Section 8
budget is used up by the lifers that I mentioned above, and those like
you are left to struggle.

However, you can look in your group and find a number of "disabled" that
are really no more disabled than myself.  I know a woman that
intentionally gained a few more pounds (she was obese to begin with) so
that she qualified for disability based on obesity.  I know another
woman that said she couldn't breath.  She got a doctor to support her
disabilitiy.  However, after the checkups, she would smoke a pack a day,
and hang out in smoke filled bars until all hours.  A smoke free job in
a climate controlled office would have been much easier on her.

We need groups that will put an end to the abuse, so that the truly
needy can get the services our genrosity provides.  Of course when only
$0.37 of every dollar makes it to those in need, it is apparent, that
large numbers of needy are needed to justify the expense.  To get the
numbers they don't want to investigate.  It's great to tumpet that the
programs help millions.  They would hate to report that the huge expense
only helped hundreds of thousands of the actual needy (and in your case
the needy go unhelped).

> Or we have to spend more than we should, thereby doing without
> things that others take for granted.
>  I'm on a section-8 waiting list here in Rochester NY, and have been for
> several years. It's not always possible to even get on the list, as they
> don't take applications for the waiting list all the time.
>  Consider that I get $580.00 a month, and have to live on that, not
> counting medical...
>  I drive an older car because that's all I can afford.

A car should be the first thing to go unless you live where there is no
transit system.

> 
>  I don't speak for everyone that should be eligible for section-8, and
> would like to hear from others.
>  BTW, if I move to another state, I have to start over as far as waiting
> lists for section-8...
> 
>  Wayne AKA Blackie...

Good luck!