re: City of Shreveport to shut off water to 3 apartment complexes next week

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Would you be surprised if I told you all 3 are Section 8 housing?

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I suspect Shreveport will make national headlines for "shutting off water to low-income minorities" and the world will keep turning.

Nobody will care about the true reasons for this happening (nobody paying their bills at multiple levels). It will be strictly turned into a race/class thing and the water will be turned back on due to outside pressures.

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I thought section 8 rent was paid to the landlord by the government?

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A good portion of it is, like 70%.

Resident has to pay the rest.

The genesis of this problem is likely a crappy section 8 administrator in Shreveport who allowed the residence to remain without keeping up their end of the bargain. Section 8 has some pretty decent requirements that tenants must follow in order to have the government pay their 70%.

Who started that shite in Metry years ago? Aaron Broussard? Maybe someone befoe him? I know this clown in the link and the dude from Dragos wanted to make Fat City the next Rodeo Drive. Yeah ok. See how that's working out. Section 8 has done Metry in.


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A good portion of it is, like 70%.

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Gotcha, I thought gov't paid 100%. I assume the $ goes straight to the landlord and not to the tenant?

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I thought section 8 rent was paid to the landlord by the government?

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My wife used to be a property manager. She knows all about dealing with section 8. She said the government pays 40% of the rent and the property owner can’t evict if they take any of the section 8 payment for that specific apartment.

So a tenant can completely ignore the landlord and not pay a damn thing and the owner can do nothing about it if they keep taking the 40% payments.

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I am so tired of this saying. They are actually “overserved”. The amount of police per capita, free shite per capita, ebt per capita, fake handicap tags per capita, random dumb government entities per capita like Council on Aging. They have waaaaay more services than your average middle class family.

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Juxtapose that with those living in poverty in rural areas and see all of the "bennies" that they're receiving.

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All 3 properties are owned by the same dude out of NYC.

Apparently the property manager at Quail Creek put a sign on the door that they were closed and the entire staff left the property. They said they have a serious issue with squatters and residents refusing to pay rent. Some owed more than $16K in back rent.


Would you be surprised if I told you all 3 are Section 8 housing?


This was announced yesterday. There was a shooting at Quail Creek last night. Crime was already bad there. This is going to make it the Wild West.

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This is probably the first step towards action items being taken by the city towards shutting them down. So eventually new management or possibly even being demolished or redeveloped.

There is a similar complex in Tigerland in Baton Rouge that was shut down and will hopefully be redeveloped. But just it being empty has been a huge help. If that fate met about 3 other similar, smaller complexes in that area....it will be a huge net positive.

3, 2, 1.........RACISM!!!!!

Lax enforcement is the issue. You probably have 1/2 of the residents who cannot afford to live elsewhere and they pay their rent.

But, the squatters and non-payers ruin it for them. There is likely a trespassing problem also.