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I lost everything during the financial crisis.
Our vision would also address the need for reparations....
But now we struggle with our new landlord, the Chicago Housing Authority. In our city, seniors in public housing use ovens to stay warm in winter and ride on out-of-code elevators.
A grassroots-led effort aims to ensure every person in the United States has safe, accessible, sustainable, and permanently affordable housing.
section 8Pretty much says it all. They are the most troublesome tenants of all. Get most of their rent paid by the housing authority, yet often can't come up with the 1% contribution. I watched a Judge Judy yesterday where an able bodied man probably in his late 40's and his live-in female partner, were gaming the system every which way from Tuesday. His share was, and you're not going to believe this, $1, and he went months without even paying that and was indignant about some petty thing and was suing for the world. Of course he lost and Judge Judy put him in his place but good.
But what you then get is housing as an investmentWhich they had never traditionally been. If your $25,000 house increased in value 1% between 1955 and 1965 it would have been a miracle, but then that wasn't the purpose. It was the hyperinflation of the 1970's that started all this kind of thing when a house that had been $25,000 from 1955 to 1970 was by 1980 $200,000. The house whose garage apartment I lived in from 1967 to 1974 and paid $75 a month, sold for $34,000 in 1973, I stayed one more year. The most expensive house in the neighborhood was $45,000. That house at 8122 Santa Clara Dr. in Dallas today is $782,000, but at the height of the price bubble is was $900,000 as well as all the houses around it.
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