re: Wow, today I witnessed black people protesting section 8 (link on page 3)

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It' fake as frick

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No, snopes does not classify it as "fake". It says"multiple sources" which means truth and fiction (such as the wood floor comments and the wine comments are fake and satire)

Snopes says "Origins: In December 2007, as part of its coverage of the ongoing battle over the City Council of New Orleans' plan to tear down four public housing complexes, a photographer visited the home of Sharon Jasper, a 48-year-old resident of that city and housing activist who lives in an apartment rented for her under the provisions of Section 8.

(Federal housing assistance programs began in the U.S. during the Great Depression. The Housing Choice Voucher Program is one such program and is better known as Section 8, a term which refers to the part of the U.S. Housing Act of 1937 under which the original subsidy program was authorized. Section 8 tenants pay their landlords about 30 percent of their income for rent, with the difference between what they pay and what is deemed fair rent for the unit provided by the federal
government.)

That visit resulted in the photograph shown here of Jasper sitting on a couch in the subsidized private apartment she'd described as a slum. The snapshot captured her big screen TV and the unit's hardwood floors, apartmental accoutrements many had difficulty squaring against their definition of "slum." Jasper also complained about missing window screens, a slow leak in a sink, a warped back door, and a few other details of a residence that otherwise appeared to have been recently renovated.

That photo plus quotes from Sharon Jasper lifted from that article ("I might do better out here with one of these tents") and from others ("I might be poor, but I don't have to live poor") were married to her outbursts at a New Orleans City Council meeting on 20 December 2007 ("I will not be treated like a slave!" and "Back up and Shut up! Shut up, white boy! Shut up, white boy!"), then worked into the satire piece quoted above.

It's for this reason that we've given this item a "Multiple" status: While some of the elements portrayed in the spoof are fabricated of whole cloth, others aren't. And while most of the photos associated with the satire were taken from elsewhere, the first one, the one that shows a big screen television, is the real deal. "

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You don't know many black people do you?

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I am black....ive just never seen this.

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. I live in the burbs now and there is absolutely no chance of section 8 coming to Central

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Obama and Julian Castro might have something to say about that

I'm lost.

Are you just talking about the quote?

Everyone is NIMBY when it comes to the value of their property.

There is one problem I have with people opening their properties to Section 8 residents. The pool of Section 8 money is fixed every year, and the number of new Section 8 tenants is generally less than the number of residences willing to take Section 8 tenants. Thus, the property owners race to the bottom in their rental rates, and they lower their costs by not performing necessary repairs and maintenance to the properties. The properties become run down, and the properties eventually become unlivable.

Heres a link

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...and there is absolutely no chance of section 8 coming to Central.

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New law quietly making it's way through congress will force municipalities to change their zoning to allow section 8 housing in burbs.

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You don't know many black people do you?



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