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Posted: 9/2/2005 6:09:38 PM EDT
Can somebody explain "the projects" to me?
they named some large number of residents from "the projects" that were being evacuated after the flood I have seen some of them on "Cops" or in the news sometimes they are suppossed to be real dangerous for non-residents I have heard of them in Chicago, Philadelphia and now New Orleans Are they ONLY for welfare recipients, can anyone rent there, is it what we call section 8 in Houston? (where taxpayers pay like 80% of their rent) I am wondering if we will start building "projects" in Texas to house the LA transplants and, what happened to welfare reform, are some people still going on welfare their whole lives? |
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Everyone's a critic I only do that for articles or for making a point on some posts |
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Short for housing projects. The "projects" are .gov housing for low income families.
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"projects" are typically fully subsidized housing that is owned by the locality. (eg the Dallas Housing Authority)
Section 8 and LIHTC is usually owned by private developers/owners |
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Government housing.
Low income or no income rent for families based upon financial need. Basically if you can't take care of yourself and earn your own money they stick you ass in a project. Projects SUCK. Usually only families qualify. |
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It is public housing for welfare receipents. A lot of druggies live there. Gang ruled. The bottom of the barrel. Blocks and blocks of apartments. When I lived in NOLA, no white person went near them
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The term "projects" has long been used to refer to government subsidized housing--properly called "housing projects" from the (I think) 1960's with the "Great Society" welfare state. Usually the tenants live there free, receive some form of welfare benefits in the form of cash, medical card, food stamps, Circuit Breaker, WIC, etc. The whole thing was rather drastically changed when the Republican Congress finally forced welfare reform down Clinton's gullet and Dick Morris told him if he didn't sign it into law (after vetoing it twice) he couldn't get reelected. He did and did. Now most of the former "projects" dwellers do work, while we pay a monthly "babysitting" check to a family member--often the father of the children--to take care of the children while the mother works. There is still plenty of welfare, but it has been curtailed to some degree--hence the increased venom and vitriole from the Left for the Repubs. It was at least a start.
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That's tattoos--different thread. |
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It's the fuckin ghetto.....government produces it....no right-minded person, poor or otherwise would choose it if it didn't exist. It's a warehouse for the poor.
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There are generations of people that have been living on welfare. Why change now. Are you familiar with a small animal called a leech? We humans have our own version of that. |
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I never seen the tatoos on national geographic,my bad. |
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I was under the impression that the welfare reform limited welfare to six years?
But, I have never been able to find welfare info as in how many people are on welfare............. |
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Projects are housing paid for by the oppressors for the poor victims to whom it's owed.
I'm all for helping folks out, regardless of race. Problem is, gov't handout produce obnoxious "consumers" more often than not. Charity should be done on a local level with some common sense. What a joke we've become. It's sad, really sad. |
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tisk...tisk...tisk [shakes finger] Silly 22bad, the leaches of society have found an even better gig than welfare.............................Disability.............by definition, it lasts a lifetime. |
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I actually know one of those, she seems to get around just fine she walks miles every day(no car)and was plenty flexible |
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Contact McUZI--he'll make up all the statistics you care to digest. |
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section 8's are a good investment, just keep the heat on and the water running.
The gubmint sends the rent checks directly to u. They also pay for repairs if the people fuck up the house. |
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Don't know him.....but I would much prefer FACTS (and, I didn't enjoy his famous rant as much as most did) |
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Then you likely wouldn't be impressed by his made up welfare statistics either. |
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Heh, but now you have gotten me curious, AND laughing my a$$ off |
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The Projects: democraps, liberals, socialism, blacks, illegal aliens, local/state/federal 'gubment housing, shoddy workmanship, few jobs, smells bad, drugs, prostitutes, gangs, lack of maintanance, lousy tenants, bad management, rats, whiners, welfare, and eventually torn down so that capitalism can revitalize the neighborhood.
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Projects are inhabited by income challenged people.They get free rent for a while,then uncle sam makes them work.This work consists of a minimum of 20 hrs a week so they can sstay in the projects.My wife works with a bunch of these people that work 20 hrs a week.They call in sick repeatedly and generally are a pain in the ass to work with.
Bottom line is they don't want to work. Electricity is paid,as well as various other things.The only thing we(Taxpayers) don't pay for is cable tv.Rent is around $200 a month and most of them drive better cars than I do.Toilet paper,paper towels,soap and other necessities are given to them as well. I live less than a mile from this cesspool of human filth.I see them drive to the end of my street with hookers and crack,then leave.They leave their used rubbers on the ground,along with vials and syringes. <Removed. 4.) Posting comments or links in support of illegal activities including, but not limited to, threats against the life of any living person. --tbk1> |
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Let's just say a "project", in the context of this thread, is something that you want to stay away from at night.
My dad sometimes works at an asphalt plant located across from a Housing Project in Chicago. Good thing he doesn't work there at night. |
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You kidding? Baltimore's were so bad they dynamited them a few years ago. ........and moved 1/2 the scum out into the 'burbs where crime sky rocketed. |
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wanna see projects, come over to my house and look across the street. When we flooded a couple of years ago, I was trapped in my house for a week with water all around my house, they started coming over here, a couple of the townhomes were broken into, none by me. Im afraid of what would happen if I was cut off any longer than that.
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Where is that? |
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what's the name of the member that rents out a bunch of section 8 apartments?
Slumlord? |
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YES!! |
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Build new projects? Not much of that going on anymore. Most projects are being torn down. The "poor" are moving into other privately owned, subsized housing or they are getting a section 8 subsidy so they can live in regular nighborhoods. (perhaps coming to a hood near you) On welfare their whole lives?? It's worse than that! There are 3rd and 4th generations of families that have never had a working person in their household! No resident male in the house, mother just keeps downloading crumbsnachers. Female children start to breed at age 14 or 15 years old. |
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he needs to post another pic thread |
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I beg to differ as I worked those high rise projects you talk about for many years, and still work in the low rises...............while they did implode those all the "family" low rise complex’s, the family low rises are for the most part still standing....and according to the rate where going for this year, there contributing their part to making damn near 300 homicides in the city of Baltimore this year....though a unfortunate side effect of "move to opportunity" as it is called, is the re-distribution of scum in the nicer neighborhoods surrounding the city, but dont feel bad there are still plenty of shitbags still in the city to make everyone feel good about their socialist agenda......funny im feeling a little homesick…I miss the stench of piss and S---t covered stairwells and having to run all 15 stories up to the top all the time………….ah………………. |
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I do have some professional experience with section 8 housing residents, NOT good neighbors What happened to the reform that limits their length of time on the public dole? |
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Yeah, usually. Bastards keep propping this shit up in my area, I live in a suburban town called Elkridge in MD, and they keep trying to do this here to house all the people from NYC and Baltimore, it really sucks to have this stuff popping up around you. If you don't go to the inner city, why then, the inner city will come to you ETA: they've actually been taking existing housing, even single-family homes in some cases, and using them for this. |
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I hate to burst your bubbles, but I am Black, have never lived in or near any project, or had any family that has. But I shoot with a guy, White, who was raised in the projects. <shrug> |
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Man, no kidding. I can see I should have checked back on this thread. Guys, my job takes me everywhere in my town and subsidized housing of all kinds is inhabited by all races--it AIN'T a "black thing." Geez. |
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Plenty of caucasians and hispanics on welfare too. I think it has to do with the environment an individual is raised in more than race. Unfortunately the poor/uneducated/destitute of all races do not take advantage of birth control so the cycle is endless. Drugs, alcohol and popular culture do not help the mix of those who cannot or will not help themselves. I fear it will only get worse as the world's population increases exponentially. |
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It should be no suprise that because we have more white people in the USA, more white citzens are on state aid. They may not live in projects but sec 8 pays the rent. Also, being poor is not a crime. If your not poor consider yourself lucky because you could have drawn a different card in life.
Plus, we bailout more corporations owned by millionaires with your tax dollars but you guy's instead talk about a $400.00 per month check someone might get from the gov, what about the billions in corporate welfare. You don't complain because either you don't know about it or don't see it across the street. Wake up, the rich love when the middle class get's absorbed with what poor peoples get for free. We spend tax payer money rebuilding Iraq and young men (kids of NO) dying for it and we have to ask for donations for US citizens! Something is wrong! |
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The problem isn't poor people. For many years, the poor folks in this country (regardless of race) still had dignity and a work ethic. Socialist welfare programs have mostly destroyed those things among the poor, to the point where anyone who makes an effort to get out of that situation via hard work is either considered totally stupid or a traitor to their race or class. The poor in this country used to work hard, and usually improved their lot in life over time. That has NOT been the case for the majority of those who have been on welfare for more than a few years. Their lives have only grown more bleak, as removing the requirement to work for their survival and betterment has been taken away. I met a woman once who INSISTED that EVERYONE received a monthly check from the government, and was at a loss as I tried to explain to her that her "government money" really came from the people who had to go to work all day and pay taxes. I'm still not sure she believes me, as everyone she knows has been on welfare for as long as she can remember, and she doesn't even KNOW OF another way of life, much less strive for it. -Troy |
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Can you provide some sources for those numbers about the racial breakdown of welfare are you just quoting figures that "everyone knows"? I cannot find them, where did you get them? I don't know if I am up for a debate on class envy or corporate welfare but If the figure of 300,000 people on welfare in NO is correct they are sucking down much more than the 12million a month that they would be getting in a $400 check(rent, food stamps, medical care) And that is just ONE city If they CAN'T work, fine, no problem, if they are sitting on their asses instead of working because they don't feel like it and are contributing to the problems in society by committing crimes, not fine And when you bring up Iraq, are you saying that the Taxpayers should pay for everything via the federal government, and Churches and Charities should not need to help? |
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Troy, I can't speak for that lost soul you know but how you say "it's not race " but then say that blacks think that they would be a traitor to their race if they work hard. Believe it or not but that is a racist statement. Who the hell told you that? This forum seems to think that blacks are the only people on state and federal aid. That black people are poor,lazy,uneducated and predatory. Come out of the dark.
As far as Iraq, take donations for that. Why am I paying for that and $3.54 per gallon for gas. Also, this forum assumes that all those people are unemployeed or on state aid prior to this event. The projects also house low income people who are not on state aid. They are just low income earners. I would take a shot also and say that maybe, just maybe some of the people might have lost a house and or business in the storm. Who the hell knowes but to generalize and stereotype continues the divide. |
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I don't remember stating a person's race anywhere. Hell, many members of my own extended family (great uncles & their families) have lived on welfare for generations, and have these same attitudes, and they are white. On the other side of my family are unwed welfare mothers with multiple children from different fathers who are raising children that will likely follow the same path, and these folks are hispanic. Certainly, this is not a problem that is exclusive to blacks.
However, the cold hard truth is that blacks use and abuse the welfare system at a far higher percentage of their overall population than do other races. It is not politically correct to say that, but it is true. Certainly, the history of the black population in the US has had an influence on that. A black friend of mine, who was an Army helo pilot and brought in his personal pictures of the LA Riots that he was deployed in, went to a segregated elementry school in the south, and is very anguished over the fact that he can't trace his roots back very far, due to his recent ancestors being abducted in Africa and brought over as slaves in the 1800s. Many black folks alive today certainly were oppressed by segregation and prejudice in their lifetimes, and remember it well. At the same time, children of my generation (I'm 35) and younger largely did NOT live with this. But many, including a LOT of blacks, lived a "free-from-responsibility" welfare lifestyle, and that has been corrosive to our society. And refusing to acknowledge this for PC reasons will only make this problem worse, as it has continued to do over the last couple of decades. My business partner, who is as black as they come, would be the first person to tell you that the responsibility for the state of the lives of most poor black folks is on themselves, and their community. He is much quicker to call fellow blacks out on it, and much more blunt than I'll ever be. He's not racist, anymore than I am, but he can see the truth. Again, the same problems are present among white, hispanic, and asian poor (and even middle-class), but blacks have embraced them as being their own culture in many respects, and that's hurt their communities greatly. -Troy |
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Well Said;
I have always felt as though the (people) could do more to help themselves, but when their is a free ride at stake why bother. Cut back their freebies and let them earn what they deserve. |
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"However, the cold hard truth is that blacks use and abuse the welfare system at a far higher percentage of their overall population than do other races. It is not politically correct to say that, but it is true".
Troy, we have to agree to disagree with the above. Maybe in CA but in CT for instance you have a lot of non blacks living in towns intermingled in the suburbs, in some cases in cottages on the lake on sec 8 as their parents were. Now I will say that the cost of living varies state to state and in CT where the cost of living is very high, I think that plays a big part in the diversity of federal assistance citizens in towns out side of urban/metro areas here. I do know that in rural areas around the country, ie, NH, you have had generations on hard times that are on the system up there and they are not black. Im thinking that the cost of living in CA is up there compared to the minimum wage so maybe that's why you say the above. |
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It's funny seeing someone ask what "the projects" are. Geowing up just outside of Chicago, "the projects" are something that are talked about almost daily. There not really for poor people. I'd tell each and everyone one of you who really lives in projects and what outrageous animals they are but the site staff seems to get awful upset when I speak the truth about certain Chicago folk.
Imagine what you are seeing on tv right now caged in a concrete urban jungle, swelling, waiting to explode. We won't work down there because they piss down the elevator shafts and defecate in the halls. I was offered demo work at Robert Taylor and promptly rejected. The Chicago PD don't even go there on New Years eve. They let them shoot it out and kill each other and then they scoop 'em up in the morning. What I see on tv right suprises me in no way given where I grew up. I am just now happy I am McHenry County IL white trash. Aint no lootin here. |
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This website says some interesting things about welfare reform
like........some states are exempt, some have not reached the cut-off yet(LA, TX) and the states can exempt 20% of their rolls from the cut-off? www.urban.org/Template.cfm?Section=DataataGlance&NavMenuID=6&PublicationID=7462 |
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