I learned something new this last week: Section 8 housing is investment properties

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So investors are supposed to buy rental property to break even or lose money?

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Let me state this another way: large corporations and investors BUY Section 8 housing units to MAKE A PROFIT. To say it again: our most vulnerable, the elderly, the disabled, those living in poverty, are LITERALLY making money for corporations by living in government housing. To be clear: these companies are making a PROFIT while these individuals and families are living in substandard, unhealthy conditions where they aren’t even able to control the thermostats, where they have to bathe in a 50* bathroom, where the lease states it is up to the tenant to pay for Fair Housing Act provisions.

TO SUM IT UP: SECTION 8 HOUSING MAKES BILLIONS OF DOLLARS FOR CORPORATIONS AND LEAVES OUR CITIZENS LIVING IN SQUALOR. Trickle down economics my entire arse.

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I’m quite frankly sick of capitalism in general. The defense of “Well, why SHOULDN’T they make money off of this” or “These people should just be happy they have a roof over their head” while the residents have zero autonomy, authority, humanity, access, dignity, hope, accountability... very few know what it’s like to live your life that way. It’s sickening that there is even the ability for these people to be take advantage of like this.

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