ewoo

This is a joke, right? Have you lived near Section 8 housing? Have you ever lived in an apartment complex in which the owner decides to start accepting Section 8 vouchers? I have. It's not rocket science that when you replace wage-earning, working people with people living on handouts that a community's housing value is going to decline. Of course, the argument is what came first, the chicken or the egg, the bad neighborhood or the Section 8 residents? I would argue that the very presence of Section 8 residents shows a community that is struggling because it is unable to attract residents at market rents. Full disclaimer: I don't believe that all or even most Section 8 recipients are "bad people." But if you take a public housing complex and stick it in the middle of a healthy area, I think reasonable people would agree that housing values will be affected. Section 8 is the same thing, just on a less obvious scale.