#Project2025’s #RussVought, #Trump’s director of the Office of Management & Budget [#OMB], previously endorsed an end to the federal #voucher program. He [falsely] wrote in 2022 that the #Section8 program in particular “brings with it crime, decreased property values, & results in dependency & subsidized irresponsibility.”
…the expected overhaul would most likely amount to more than just a technical change, resulting in fewer federal dollars for #LowIncome #families on top of additional cuts planned for the rest of the Dept of #Housing & Urban Development [#HUD]. On Thurs, the #Trump admin took the first steps toward potentially selling the agency’s HQ in Washington.
Admin ofcls recently discussed cutting or canceling out the #vouchers & other #RentalAssistance programs & potentially replacing them with a more *limited* system of #housing grants, perhaps sent to states, acc/to 3 people familiar with the matter…. The overhaul would be included in #Trump’s new #budget, which is expected to be sent to #Congress in the coming weeks.
We should start funneling the homeless towards #Republican areas tbh
I assume the section 8 waitlist for the Boston area is closed because it’s too long, but if you can find one in Massachusetts that’s open you don’t actually have to live in Massachusetts to apply for section 8 in Massachusetts. Or at least you didn’t have to a decade ago.
But look at these income limits. Back when I had a career my mom used to tell me I should get on the section 8 waitlist just in case and I would scoff at her and tell her that I never qualify for anything, I’m pretty sure I would have qualified even when I had my career and when I became disabled I regretted not taking her advice because it was a really long wait.
Two residents have sued to stop the $500 UBI in St. Louis.
This YouTube creator is talking about how the Director of HUD went to a UBI conference recently, and now they want to just give people the money instead of doing the section 8 subsidy for people who have section 8 so that we can live wherever without the landlord having to do all the section 8 paperwork.
That would be amazing, but people will never allow it. The people who get jealous of poor people will never allow that to happen.
https://www.youtube.com/live/nuN5XdBYFHI
(Edited to add the link to the video for the 3rd time, idk, sorry)
what the fuck does is mean that "Section 8 is closed?"
look, I know I'm never going to get Section 8 because I'll either be dead or have solved my housing problems by the time it becomes relevant, but I'm just curious because the Housing Authority worker I just spoke to wasn't able to explain it.
Section 8 offices, just like social security offices are hella corrupt.
The fact that the right hates social services for simply existing should tell you that "elected" officials are influencing who gets hired into those offices, and who makes those determination decisions. It's rife with all sorts of discrimination too, but a person will need access to lots of money and have social capital to hold anyone legally accountable.
The social services success stories are far fewer than the social services nightmares.... And this is NOT to say social services are bad! This is to say that politicians see it as their personal mission (and benefit) to starve out, unhouse, and literally poison the wells of anyone who might oppose them (just look at the Flint, MI water situation). Don't let the left off the hook either. Democrats are also notorious for looking the other way (for example, refusing to use 'strong' language in their public speech, such as the words "genocide" and "ceasefire", or "pandemic", "AIDS" and "COVID-19") , because, they benefit from an oppressed -- isolated, terrorized, starving, unhoused, lynched, ill, injured, and poisoned population as well.
"We pride ourselves on the fabric of America's diversity, our grit, our work ethic, and how we rise to the occasion to get things done."
Paraphrasing a compilation of what Democrat and Republican politicians have said over the years. (Not AI generated)
#Wildlife #WildlifePhotography #SocialServices #Politics #Section8 #disability #Poverty #voting #Right #Left #Democrat #Republican #GOP #BernieSanders #Progressive #Vote #Elections #pandemic #Covid #covid19 #Flint #michigan #HIV #AIDS #HealthCare #HousingCrisis #Housing #SNAP #EBT #Homelessness
#Trans #TransDayOfVisiblity #LGBTQ #Queer #Genocide
#Section8 (2022)
After avenging the murder of his family a former soldier is sprung from prison and recruited by a shadowy government agency.
#ScottAdkins #ActionFilmHeroes
#FilmMastodon 
Privatized #Boston rail: “We don’t want to #strike, but we will when we are legally able to” - new cleaners pay so low, eligible for #FoodStamps and #Section8
Years of living with rats, snakes, and rotted floorboards has led a group of tenants across the country to demand better from both their landlord and the federal government.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/7kxjyz/life-in-a-death-trap-how-tenants-rose-up-against-a-federally-funded-mega-landlord?at_medium=Social%20media&at_campaign=Mastodon
#housing #HUD #apartments #rentals #section8
#Section8 (2022)
After avenging the murder of his family a former soldier is sprung from prison and recruited by a shadowy government agency.
#DolphLundgren #ActionFilmHeroes
#FilmMastodon
#ParkCenter, shame on you!
Although there is AN AVAILABLE APARTMENT, the #homeless outreach team is denying fair access to affordable housing based on my #disability. After #gaslighting me and blaming countless #microaggression transactions on my #schizophrenia, I was told summarily to give up on getting help, and to try a provider with a waiting list of over a year w/ #section8.
I have been homeless and sick for over a month, and all they have done is purposely ignore me!
#FortWayne #Indiana
Landlord came in today with maintenance. Saw the mold and blamed us for it being there even though there's a leaky gutter on the other side of the closet wall. Our closet was tidy. I keep my mobility scooter in there and we store one of the children's extra medical supplies in there, protected inside black plastic garbage bags. The landlord saw what was in the bags because two of them were open and the medical supplies were inside. He literally called our belongings "trash" and that the mold was there because of all our "garbage" (medical supplies and my mobility scooter)
The maintenance man had to saw a hole in the wall and and look around.
He covered it with plastic and left.
We aren't hearing word back about when they are finishing the repair or what to expect.
We need to file a claim with our renters insurance because we had to throw out all the families shoes and winter boots, 4 coats and $300 worth of medical supplies that we were storing in there, because it was all covered in that mold.
The landlord called our belongings trash, all while tossing our things out of our closet (our belongings that were stored in there are ruined from mold)
We video and audio recorded the entire interaction
Here's what our wall looks like now, and we are expected to clean up the drywall and mold mess they left behind
@ai6yr “About 48% of Section 8 recipients in L.A. don’t meet that deadline, meaning that thousands of people who receive vouchers are never able to use them.” #section8 #housing #homelessness #zoning #zoningreform #equity
Bill will allow stealth ‘no-fault’ evictions
Without hard limits on in-tenancy rent increases, landlords can use large rent hikes to force unwanted tenants out.
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2023/05/05/bill-will-allow-stealth-no-fault-evictions/
#Evictions #LondonRentersUnion #No-faultevictions #RentersReformBill #section8
4/6
4th, #Republicans want to cut #GovernmentSpending on #SocialWelfare prgms incl #SocialSecurity, #Medicare/#Medicaid, #SNAP/#FoodStamps, & COVID relief. It's #ClassWarfare blaming poor for #nationaldebt. Yes #SocialServices is a fair % of the budget, but so is the military & they arent cutting that. Besides for every $1 the gov puts into SNAP we get about $1.79 in economic activity. It's true for other #PublicAssistance prgms like #TANF, #Section8 & others.
#news #debtceiling #KevinMcCarthy
This story is a great example of how housing vouchers can only do so much especially for disabled because discrimination based on credit scores or a lack of positive letter from your previous apartment can exist outside of discrimination on the basis of income.
#housing
#HousingAuthority
#section8
#yimby
#disability
#Washington
#poverty
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