The “godly” Ben Carson wants to triple the rent for poor people:
HUD Secretary Ben Carson on Wednesday unveiled a major overhaul of the rental-housing system, proposing to increase the share of rent that low-income households must pay before receiving assistance and allow public housing authorities to impose work requirements.
The proposal to reshape the way HUD helps 4.5 million people meet their rent is part of a broader Trump administration push to link anti-poverty programs to employment.
Carson — who often refers to his own up-from-nothing life story as a parable for the poor and said last year that poverty is “a state of mind” — has long called on HUD to focus on helping people get off assistance, rather than expanding the benefits it provides.
The current system, Carson said on a conference call with reporters, creates “perverse incentives, including discouraging these families from earning more income and becoming self-sufficient.”
Rental assistance recipients currently spend about 30 percent of their adjusted income on housing, with subsidies picking up the rest. Under the proposal HUD is sending to Congress, recipients would have to contribute 35 percent of their gross income or 35 percent of their income from working 15 hours a week at the federal minimum wage.
I know some poor people, and they’re all working — two or three jobs, some of them. I don’t know where these people get the idea that poor people are all living high on the hog, but I wish they’d get their heads out of their asses.
I’ve been poor most of my adult life, and while I’ve never gotten housing assistance, I did look into it before we got the living situation we’re in now. The waiting list is three years long, and being disabled as I am doesn’t shorten it.
I don’t personally know anyone who gets housing assistance, but a former room mate of mine did, and he complained a lot about the rules under which his friend had to live in order to qualify.
If we were to lose this rental, we might have to get on that list, as my SSDI will not, in fact, rent anything in the East Bay, let alone support us after that rent is paid.
We’re lucky to nave a friend who will let us live here for $600/month, about half of our income.
And we are better off than many I could name. Luckier, also.
You called them right: bastard coated bastards with bastard filling.
An empty head is equally informed anatomically positioned.