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 Post subject: Re: Section 8 Savages
PostPosted: Wed Jun 04, 2008 11:50 pm 
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Complex: Life Inside A Section 8 Apartment

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 Post subject: Re: Section 8 Savages
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 Post subject: Re: Section 8 Savages
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Under the “Plan for Transformation,” the CHA will tear down the eyesore high rises of Henderson’s community and other “severely distressed” developments around the city – approximately 20,000 units – and move tenants into the private market, where they will supposedly integrate seamlessly into the social mainstream.


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Chicago's Robert Taylor Homes - once the nation's largest public housing project - is currently being dismantled. Half of its buildings have already been torn down, and the remainder will soon meet the wrecking ball. Completed in 1962, Taylor was the capstone to Chicago's south side "second ghetto" (to use Arnold Hirsch's term), housing 28,000 African Americans in 28 identical 16-story buildings. While the project replaced one of Chicago's worst slums, it in turn became the city's most infamous and troubled community

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 Post subject: Re: Section 8 Savages
PostPosted: Mon Jun 09, 2008 11:30 pm 
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Culture is a learned behavior, no need to waste funds on a lawyer, start bring pressure on the landlord. You’re coming close to sounding like the folks that pull up stakes based on ethnicity of a changing neighborhood. Don’t lower your standards bring a few folks up to yours. The area will be better for it.


I took your advice and the managers have sent them a couple of complaint letters.

The police have been called out a couple of times by others and they are starting to get the picture .

They seemed to have snapped and went wild.

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 Post subject: Re: Section 8 Savages
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Historically, many suburban jurisdictions have used zoning and land use regulations to limit the development of rental housing, especially more affordable rental housing, in order to maintain their property tax base and ensure social homogeneity (Advisory Commission on Regulatory Barriers to Affordable Housing 1991; Malpezzi 1996). Few states require jurisdictions to build or accommodate their "fair share" of affordable housing (Burchell et al. 1994). As a consequence, the stock of rental housing tends to be somewhat concentrated in central cities, older suburbs, and less affluent neighborhoods (Orfield 1997).

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One of the most intriguing studies of how neighborhood conditions might affect the life chances of poor children was conducted by sociologist James Rosenbaum of Northwestern University, as reported in his book Crossing the Class and Color Lines (co-authored with Northwestern University law professor Leonard Rubinowitz). Rosenbaum followed Chicago public housing residents who were relocated to other parts of the metropolitan area as part of a court decision (Hills vs. Gautreaux, 425 U.S. 284, 306, 1976). The key to the Gautreaux program, as the relocation effort was known, was that most participants had little choice over where they moved. Families were placed on a waiting list for a new, private-market apartment, and if the family turned down the first available unit, they were moved to the bottom of the list. According to the administrators of the program, almost all families took the first apartment that was offered them.

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NORFOLK REDEV. & HOUSING AUTH. v. C. & P. TEL., 464 U.S. 30 (1983)
464 U.S. 30
NORFOLK REDEVELOPMENT AND HOUSING AUTHORITY v. CHESAPEAKE &
POTOMAC TELEPHONE COMPANY OF VIRGINIA ET AL.
CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT
No. 81-2332.

Argued October 3, 1983
Decided November 1, 1983



Respondent Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. of Virginia (C&P) was required to relocate some of its transmission facilities by reason of a street realignment resulting from federally funded urban renewal projects carried out in Norfolk, Va., by petitioner Norfolk Redevelopment and Housing Authority (NRHA), a political subdivision of the State. C&P sought reimbursement from NRHA for the expenses incurred in this relocation, claiming that it was a "displaced person" within the meaning of the Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real Property Acquisition Policies Act of 1970 (Act), which provides in 42 U.S.C. 4622(a) (1) that any person displaced from his home or place of business by a federal or federally funded project is entitled to relocation benefits, including reimbursement for the "actual reasonable expenses in moving himself, his family, business, farm operation, or other personal property." After receiving administrative rejections, C&P sued NRHA in Federal District Court, which denied relief. The Court of Appeals reversed


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Have you been displaced and not compensated have you been made to flee your tenancy well here is some food for thought if you know what I mean :smt002

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 Post subject: Re: Section 8 Savages
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Only a few blocks west of the Washington Park site of the proposed Olympic Stadium is the southern tip of what--until 2005--was the Robert Taylor Homes. Once the largest public housing development in the world, the Robert Taylor Homes stretched north and south for two miles, comprising more than 4,300 housing units. Currently, the former site is being redeveloped. Of the 2,550 planned units in the finished project, only 851 will be public housing replacement units.

According to Ben Joravsky of the Chicago Reader, the city's end goal for public housing redevelopment was about middle-class development, not improving housing for the city's poor:


The CHA's so-called Plan for Transformation opened up the South, North, and West Sides to gentrification and development. Of course, [Mayor Richard] Daley doesn't come right out and admit he got rid of the poor people. He goes along with the idea that the plan was about finding them adequate low-income housing.
Introduced in 1997, the "Plan for Transformation" is already six years behind schedule. Upon completion, it will have outsourced the majority of CHA units to the private market, allowing the CHA to shed responsibility for the built structures.

The reorganization is no small feat. Its immense scale led Jonathan Fanton of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur foundation to state, "It's probably the biggest project since the Chicago Fire."

Many residents have been given Housing Choice Vouchers (HCV) to find housing on the private market. However, the CHA does not track the whereabouts of these residents, so activists have only anecdotes to judge from.

"Communities on the city's South and West Sides, such as Roseland and Englewood, have been inundated with families displaced from the high-rises," wrote Chicago Tribune reporter Antonio Olivo. "Most now live in privately owned Section 8 homes, some as bad or worse than their old units."

Through the new criteria put forward under the city's plan, the CHA is, in effect, dumping two-thirds of its public housing stock. It has also put further constraints on residents moving back into their previous neighborhoods once they are redeveloped. Effectively, it has instituted a vetting process for residents, who are now required to work a minimum of 30 hours a week or attend school to be placed in housing.


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 Post subject: Re: Section 8 Savages
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What were the architects and city planners thinking during the concept and design process of these housing projects? A 1951 article from the Journal of Architecture reflected this concern and accurately questioned where the country was going with this critical issue, “But what is the solution to today’s pressing problem of housing our crowded city populations . . . should it be in rowhouses or vertical elevator buildings?”1This is an example of a source I will be using to support my argument. Articles such as this are critical in helping usunderstand what architects and city planners were thinking when they designed these projects. Why did they reason that their design would succeed? What pertinent aspects of the project did they include and exclude when planning?These are only some of the questions that require answers in order to understand the overwhelming problem of why most of these projects “failed

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 Post subject: Re: Section 8 Savages
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Having a conversation with yourself. I suppose you have to have a person who agrees with you, and that is the best way to handle it.

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 Post subject: Re: Section 8 Savages
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Tiff tiff it's to be expected from you same old style just like a fingerprint.

It's called food for thought.

We of commonality know what is being said here you need a dozen or so living in close proximity to you with a bunch unsupervised rug rats and teenagers driving up and down the street 5 times the speed limit with a 500 watt stereo with twin woofers in the trunk and smoking a joint.


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Main Entry: con·ten·tious
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1 : likely to cause contention <a contentious argument>
2 : exhibiting an often perverse and wearisome tendency to quarrels and disputes <a man of a most contentious nature>

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 Post subject: Re: Section 8 Savages
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Geronimo - All of your references appear to be pointing at the Chicago Housing Authority. Have you looked at what is happening with the housing authority in your own hometown? I think that you would not be surprised to learn that it is going the same direction. Only time will tell whether it is for the better or not.


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 Post subject: Re: Section 8 Savages
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So, you flood this site with harsh words, and you want to peg me as contentious. Well, I contend that you have shown your own true colors.

The Wise One has said, 'Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with ketchup."

'But, I humbly beseech Thee,' I say, 'for I have constructed a shield made from the scales of the beast. This will protect me, as the beast himself is protected.'

The Wise One replied, 'Nay, My child. I will take care of that beast.'

You can say what you will, but there is One to Whom you will answer for the strife you cause.

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 Post subject: Re: Section 8 Savages
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The strife is only perceived by those whom peer from afar in the gallery with peanuts in hand.

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