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In reply to the discussion: Poor Families Recieve 'Supervouchers' To Rent In City's Priciest Buildings (Chicago Gold Coast) [View all]big_dog
(4,144 posts)8. good points all, but should the Chicago Housing Authority be an employment coach as well?
Last edited Mon Jul 28, 2014, 07:37 PM - Edit history (1)
i guess this fits with the 'one stop shopping' approach that have got a lot of the working poor and veterans out of homelessness. it seems that the CHA will have to dovetail qualified applicatants to this situation, and force folks who dont have such attributes or backgrounds to sub standard living areas... makes me nervous as who will picking and choosing who gets these super vouchers, why not give first to domestic violence survivors, child gun violence survivors, Purple Heart reciepients, Medal of Honor winners and Gold Star Moms who have been living through hard times?
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Poor Families Recieve 'Supervouchers' To Rent In City's Priciest Buildings (Chicago Gold Coast) [View all]
big_dog
Jul 2014
OP
In 2010 CHA got permission to exceed the reimbursement cap in certain neighborhoods
Gormy Cuss
Jul 2014
#29
Okay, so it's the Federal taxpayers who will pay for luxury apartments instead of
pnwmom
Jul 2014
#33
I don't think we should do away with public assistance, but we should spend it wisely.
pnwmom
Jul 2014
#35
If the middle class apartment owners would take vouchers, there'd be no need for these.
Gormy Cuss
Jul 2014
#38
Yup. Progressives, especially well-off progressives, can be incredibly tone deaf. n/t
pnwmom
Jul 2014
#43
There isn't a good way to explain to most non-wealthy people why you should spend $9K
pnwmom
Jul 2014
#46
Are there plenty of other neighborhoods with landlords just waiting to sign up HCV tenants?
Gormy Cuss
Jul 2014
#50
The waiting list is also caused by lack of funds. So when they spend the money on luxury
pnwmom
Jul 2014
#51
Hold the phone, those were poor people I was living beside these past months? They seemed like
Fred Sanders
Jul 2014
#12
or the whole family will be working 24hrs a day taking care of rich folks kids at sub minimum wage
big_dog
Jul 2014
#3
good points all, but should the Chicago Housing Authority be an employment coach as well?
big_dog
Jul 2014
#8
For the families who sit on the waiting list, while federal money is wasted on apartments with
pnwmom
Jul 2014
#13
Why would they do that instead of using the $3K to put 2 families in $1500 a month apts?
pnwmom
Jul 2014
#9
the explanation was that there is no afforable housing left inside the City of Chicago
big_dog
Jul 2014
#11
The article only says there is a lack of affordable housing in Downtown and Lake View.
pnwmom
Jul 2014
#15
You know how rent-controlled apartments have always gone to the people who least need
valerief
Jul 2014
#20
i would give some of them to families of innocent kids who survived gun violence
big_dog
Jul 2014
#22
Meanwhile, 47,000 families to be purged from the Chicago Housing Authority list.
pnwmom
Jul 2014
#27
Just tell me they're not installing a "poor door" like they did in New York..
whathehell
Jul 2014
#31
I want everyone to go and look up a HUD program called the Family Self Sufficency Program.
Liberal_Stalwart71
Jul 2014
#52