From The NY Post.com (Nov. 11, 2021):
Take the disturbing details of the dirty housing secrets buried in the bill: more money for failed public-housing programs and, worse, big breaks for illegal immigrants and drug dealers that could make low-income neighborhoods even less safe.
Build Back Better includes a whopping $7.1 billion in new Section 8 housing vouchers, on top of $5 billion in subsidies Democrats already appropriated in March — and markedly loosens requirements.
Noncitizens would no longer have to provide proof they’re in the country legally to qualify. So illegal immigrants could get in line for one of the 100,000-plus vouchers the New York City Housing Authority distributes. We need immigrants, but we don’t need another welcome mat that exacerbates the unregulated-migrant mess the president created almost as soon as he entered office.
What’s more, the Biden boondoggle would waive the restriction on granting assistance to those who’ve been evicted for drug crimes. Ex-offenders should, to be sure, get a second chance at employment. But we should not risk subsidizing their return to housing projects where they did business and undermined public safety — especially with New York City Housing Authority crime rates already sky high.
The bill would also give local authorities the discretion to relax requirements that prohibit subsidies to those who sell and use drugs or otherwise harm the “health and safety” of fellow tenants. Activists will certainly pressure NYCHA to do just that and waive its “permanent exclusion” rules. Keep in mind that though public-housing tenants make up about 4 percent of the city’s population, already 20 percent of violent crime takes place inside or near public housing.
It doesn’t stop there. Spurred by Sen. Chuck Schumer, the spendapalooza includes $65 billion for public-housing authorities, an unprecedented amount of new spending. That’s enough simply to pay all 915,000 of the nation’s public-housing tenants $71,000 — giving them the means to move out and start over elsewhere. Indeed, that’s well worth considering: Giving NYCHA’s 172,000 lease holders the choice might well lead many to take the money and run, making it possible to sell some of NYCHA’s valuable but crumbling real estate to provide rehab funds for other projects. [read more]
Remember to build back something it first has to be destroyed.
The Build Back Better scam continues….
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