Crystal Carter went to tour an apartment. Rent was $1,500 a month.
— ProPublica (@propublica) January 25, 2020
“I’ll be paying with a Section 8 voucher,” she said.
“Yeah,” the landlord said. “I don’t do Section 8.”
This is what housing voucher discrimination looks like. https://t.co/4HIx06xhTl
Class war
Apparently Trump is soon going to propose a middle-class tax cut.
It seems that the conservative “supply-siders” have come to the conclusion that Socialism is about to capture the hearts of millions of Americans who have discovered that Trumps 2017 tax cut went almost entirely to large and medium-sized businesses and the wealthy.
In order to get back in the game, conservatives are rejecting supply-side economics in favor of giving those making between $30,000 and $100,000 a tax cut.
What these anti-Socialist, conservatives Capitalists don’t tell us is how we’re going to pay for these middle-class tax cuts without adding hundreds of billions to our already massive national debt. (Maybe they’ll cut the military budget by 50%.)
This is all just more smoke and mirrors coming from the Republicans which in the end will hurt the poor and the middle-class as usual.
After a solid year of trying to get housing assistance, meeting the requirements (disabled, over 55, one SSDI check supporting two adults), sending our information to over 50 projects, our results were as follows: two applications for lotteries to get on waiting lists, both denied.
Thus the change in my screen name.
Oh man. So sorry, Doug.
We’re OK, thank you: we have a wonderful friend with a spare room, and Sugar Pine is beautiful. We’re hella lucky. I was thinking of all those folks who aren’t that lucky, trying to navigate the system.
So glad to hear that. Our twilight years shouldn’t be so hellish.