🚀 go-pugleaf

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. 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.

 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...