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Originally posted by sgtclub
It would be more than you think. If the person that owns the unit next door to me rented it out to anybody, I would be concerned. If it was rented out to voucher recipients, I would not have purchased my place in retrospect. This is just the nature of the beast. People by in the neighborhoods they do for many reasons, but one of which is how safe their investment is. The acceptance of vouchers next door or even in the building next door has an affect on that equation.
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What if the Section 8 recipient was my grandmother, a retired elementary school teacher who, for various reasons, had a retirement income insufficient to support her living in even a one bedroom apartment without some Section 8 assistance?*
Now what if she were black?
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My objections are not in anyway based on race. They are based on class.
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I believe that you believe this is true.
Judge on criminal background of the renter, and perhaps the other residents. Judge on a credit check. But you know, and I know, refusing to accept section 8 vouchers is an inefficient proxy for forms of discrimination that are illegal.
* While this is in fact true, it doesn't really impact my perspective on section 8 vouchers. It was an unusual circumstance and short lived; she eventually came to live with us for health reasons.
