We discuss in detail issues surrounding SECTION 8-------PUBLIC HOUSING ----and the history of these FEDERAL HUD programs being CORRUPTED over CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA----from FDR NEW DEAL 1930s these housing programs were aimed at helping both working class HOMEOWNERS meet mortgage payments AND low-income renters needing SUBSIDY for rent.
Until CLINTON era all this was handled by a local PUBLIC HUD-----and each person asking to be a SECTION 8 HOUSE---or a SECTION 8 renter filed and was handled by EQUAL OPPORTUNITY AND ACCESS HOUSING policies.
A HOMEOWNER does not have to be a SECTION 8 person---they can CHOOSE to enter that program. This program worked well for most of last century BECAUSE there were plenty of WORKING CLASS HOMEOWNERS wanting a SUBSIDY from a SECTION 8 renter.
SO, until CLINTON ERA-----this SECTION 8 HOUSING worked as REAL LEFT SOCIAL PROGRESSIVE liberal public policy helping working class 99% WE THE PEOPLE black, white, and brown citizens.
'Understanding The Origins and Purpose Of Section 8 Housing
The origin of Section 8 goes back to the U.S. Housing Act of 1937, the legislation passed during the Great Depression to try and address the worst economic and housing crisis in American history'.
We see below that CLINTON ERA changed this program by PRIVATIZING the FEDERAL HUD AGENCY. These Federal SECTION 8 HOUSING funds went from being allocated equally and locally to being CONTRACT BID via LOCAL HUD having become CORPORATE.
Global banking 1% CLINTON/BUSH in 1990s privatized HUD at the same time creating a CORPORATE/BUSINESS CONTRACT BID structure. So, it moved from being a local working class homeowner to progressively larger PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CORPORATIONS getting that SECTION 8 funding.
ERGO, THIS STARTED THE PROCESS OF SECTION 8 BECOMING UNJUST-----PREDATORY---AND PROFITEERING BY WEALTHY PROPERTY INVESTMENT CORPORATIONS.
When our US WE THE LOW-INCOME citizens say this process is corrupt----THIS IS WHY. It started and soared during CLINTON/BUSH
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Section 8 of the United States Housing Act of 1937
By: Amy Wilde
RelatedSection 8 Apartment Guide
The United States Housing Act of 1937 sought to improve the quality of housing for Americans, especially disadvantaged and low-income citizens. Section 8 of the act declared that the government would provide rental assistance to lower-income families and individuals seeking housing, and it set out the guidelines by which the government would give that assistance. The Section 8 program is still a crucial support for low-income families in the U.S. today.
How Renters Qualify
To qualify to receive Section 8 benefits, a family's income has to be less than 50 percent of the median income in the area they're applying, or occasionally 80 percent of the median income with certain exceptions. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) determines the rental contribution each family makes, which usually does not exceed 30 percent of the family's adjusted income or 10 percent of their gross income, whichever amount is greater. HUD then issues qualifying families a voucher that they can use for rental of any participating property, including apartment buildings and single-family properties.
The United States Housing Act of 1937 sought to improve the quality of housing for Americans, especially disadvantaged and low-income citizens. Section 8 of the act declared that the government would provide rental assistance to lower-income families and individuals seeking housing, and it set out the guidelines by which the government would give that assistance. The Section 8 program is still a crucial support for low-income families in the U.S. today.
How Housing Providers Qualify
Only public housing agencies who seek to provide housing to low-income families can qualify to participate in the Section 8 program. In areas where no qualifying public housing agencies exist, private nonprofit organizations may qualify. A contract is drawn up in which HUD determines how many units in a building will be reserved for Section 8 families and the rental value of each unit based on the current market. HUD then pays owners the difference between the established value of a unit and what it is determined the occupying family should pay.
Owners must abide by the terms of their Section 8 contracts, including reserving the agreed upon number of units for Section 8 families, keeping the property clean, safe and in good repair, and providing financial accountability to HUD. Owners also have the responsibility to select Section 8 tenants on the basis of income and tenancy requirements and in a non-discriminatory way. HUD reevaluates the rental value of a participant's Section 8 units at least annually.
The United States Housing Act of 1937 sought to improve the quality of housing for Americans, especially disadvantaged and low-income citizens. Section 8 of the act declared that the government would provide rental assistance to lower-income families and individuals seeking housing, and it set out the guidelines by which the government would give that assistance. The Section 8 program is still a crucial support for low-income families in the U.S. today.
Tentants' Rights and Responsibilities
Renters who receive Section 8 benefits must sign a standard lease that is usually a year in length. They must abide by the terms of the lease, but an owner can only evict Section 8 renters for serious or repeated breaches of the lease as well as illegal or unsafe activities. Families receiving Section 8 benefits must submit proof that their household income still qualifies them for the program at least once a year.
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What became individual homeowners receiving SECTION 8 designation of course in 1990s became PRIVATIZED CORPORATIONS both NGO and private. Local HUD controlled by political machines first OUTSOURCED local HUD to PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CORPORATIONS-----then awarded these funds to CORPORATE structures as we see below EBALDC.
'but an owner can only evict Section 8 renters for serious or repeated breaches of the lease as well as illegal or unsafe activities'.
EBALDC sells itself as a HOUSING JUSTICE NGO------but the entire process was corrupted as political machines used these SECTION 8 FUNDS for their employees with city/state----or private politician business
LIKE------NOSY NEIGHBORS AND THE GANG---ILLEGAL SURVEILLANCE VIDEO AND PORN TO 'HIT' FOR POWER ---FOR CONTROL-----FOR MAKING BLACK MARKET MONEY.
These community development structures are controlled by MAYORS who are controlled by of course national political machines.
'What is not being told to the public and tax payers who subsidize EBALDC’s rental properties in Oakland and the East Bay is that EBALDC has been providing tax payer subsidized housing to some of it’s employees in their numerous subsidized housing sites'.
As soon as our US FEDERAL agencies started to deal with NGOS and not individual citizens ----these agencies became filled with CORRUPTION AND CRIMINAL ACTIVITY.
Again, this was CLINTON/BUSH-----1990S-----2000S
What difference did it make when OBAMA changed this FDR ERA NEW DEAL program from contract bidding of HUD controlled funds to GRANTING structures?
First, most said this was UNCONSTITUTIONAL use of these SECTION 8 FUNDS. Next, most people understood once a door is opened to CHANGING/REFORMING a civil agency policy----THAT DOOR CAN/WILL REMAIN OPEN for coming election cycles.
OBAMA KNEW THESE CHANGES TO SECTION 8 WOULD CREATE A CONSTITUTIONAL CHALLENGE TO THE ENTIRE SECTION 8 PROCESS.
This is how a highly functioning NEW DEAL housing policy being REAL LEFT SOCIAL PROGRESSIVE morphed into massive frauds, corruption, and criminal use by political machines to control communities.
Corruption is rampant at HUD and affordable housing projects
by Lynda Carson (tenantsrule [at] yahoo.com)
Thursday Feb 12th, 2015 12:14 AM
What is happening at Effie’s House and EBALDC is just one bright shining example of what is happening throughout the City of Oakland in the many subsidized housing projects owned by numerous non-profit housing developers that are members of the East Bay Housing Organizations (EBHO)!
Corruption is rampant at HUD and affordable housing projects
By Lynda Carson - February 12, 2015
Oakland - As important as HUD and it’s subsidized housing programs are to veterans, the poor, elderly and disabled, corruption is rampant from the top to the bottom in the realm of HUD and it’s tax payer subsidized housing programs. Corruption that is unfair to the homeless and low-income persons on the waiting lists trying to get into a so-called affordable housing project.
As just one example, the East Bay Asian Local Development Corporation (EBALDC) is one of Oakland’s largest nonprofit housing developers using tax credits to fund it’s subsidized housing projects for the poor, in addition to providing housing to low-income tenants with Section 8 vouchers, and Shelter Plus Vouchers. Additionally, EBALDC receives funding from the Home Program, and federal subsidized Section 8 Project-Based Vouchers in addition to grants and funding from numerous other federal programs being used to subsidize and fund it’s many so-called affordable housing sites, and programs.
Politically active like many others in the multi-billion dollar affordable housing industry, public records from the Federal Election Commission (FEC) reveal that during 2012 EBALDC gave $100 to Obama For America.
In it’s website EBALDC claims to have developed 1,918 homes to house around 3,600 people in the East Bay. EBALDC also claims that the organization directly manages 1,126 residential rental units in 19 properties, and have developed and manage more than 300,000 square feet of commercial space at their properties.
What is not being told to the public and tax payers who subsidize EBALDC’s rental properties in Oakland and the East Bay is that EBALDC has been providing tax payer subsidized housing to some of it’s employees in their numerous subsidized housing sites.
Additionally, it appears that it is totally legal to provide subsidized housing to the friends and relatives of EBALDC’s employees, and often they get preferential treatment over persons on the housing waiting lists including the homeless, elderly, and disabled desperately seeking affordable housing. In comparison, these types of activities are totally prohibited in public housing projects all across the nation.
The rules and regulations are not nearly as rigid for the non-profit housing developers receiving federal funds in the so-called affordable housing industry as they are for the nation’s 3,100 Public Housing Authorities (PHAs) that provide public housing, and Section 8 vouchers to the poor.
The PHAs receive their funding from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to fund their programs. Many affordable housing developers receive funding from local PHAs that provide Section 8 Project-Based Vouchers to the non-profit housing developers in the affordable housing industry. The Project-Based Vouchers are used to fund long-term subsidized housing projects owned by non-profit organizations in the affordable housing industry.
One might even say that the so-called affordable housing industry has totally corrupted the original intent of the public housing program that it cannot compete with, and has been desperately trying to destroy in it’s efforts to grab as much federal funding as is possible for it’s own for profit housing projects. Currently the affordable housing industry is moving as fast as possible to promote the privatization of public housing, and many non-profit housing developers are seeking federal funding through the Rental Assistance Demonstration program (RAD) in the effort to grab as many public housing units as is possible to add to their own empire.
Corruption In Affordable Housing
Indeed, corruption is rampant in the affordable housing industry. As an example, Effie’s House is a 21 unit subsidized housing project owned by EBALDC in Oakland. EBALDC got it’s hands on the property in a sweetheart deal back in 1997 through the City of Oakland when the owner at that time could not afford to replace a broken boiler system in the building. The tenants spent around a year or more without any heat or hot water in the building before EBALDC took control of the property.
Fast forward to 2014. During October of 2014, Katherine Mull, a well compensated Property Manager for EBALDC who works in their main office and oversees their commercial properties jumped ahead of the line on the housing “waiting list” and moved into a studio apartment at Effie’s House. Top management at EBALDC gave her the title of “On-site Manager” at Effie’s House, and one of the first things Katherine Mull did when moving in was to allow her boyfriend to move into the subsidized housing unit with her. A boyfriend who was also allowed to jump ahead of all the others on a waiting list to move into the subsidized housing project. Management declines to state whether or not the boyfriend went through any back-ground checks, or an income certification process before moving into the building.
Since Danny Chen is the Property Manager at Effie’s House and can be found on-site in the building office 4-days a week at the location, and notices to the tenants advising them not to bother Katherine Mull unless it is an emergency, the tenants are not certain what Katherine Mull actually does at Effie’s House as the so-called On-site Manager.
The tenants generally call 911 when there is a real emergency, or they contact Property Manager Danny Chen. Additionally, the tenants have also been advised by notice not to call Mull on her cell phone, and have been told by management that if they lose the keys to their apartment that it is not an emergency. Being too poor to afford a locksmith when losing their keys and finding themselves locked out of their homes is definitely an emergency for the tenants at Effie’s House, no matter what EBALDC may falsely claim.
According to state law property managers are required to have a real estate license, but a check of the records for the Department of Real Estate reveals that property manager’s Katherine Mull and Danny Chen do not have a real estate license.
What is happening at Effie’s House and EBALDC is just one bright shining example of what is happening throughout the City of Oakland in the many subsidized housing projects owned by numerous non-profit housing developers that are members of the East Bay Housing Organizations (EBHO).
Obama Is Pushing For Further Corruption Of HUD’s Subsidized Housing Programs
Making matters worse, in the latest federal budget proposals released by the Obama administration during the first week of February, Obama is pushing for the further weakening of the rules and regulations for Public Housing Authorities (PHAs) all across the nation. The President is pushing for the expansion of the Moving To Work (MTW) demonstration program that has already totally corrupted around 35 housing authorities across the nation. There are currently around 35 MTW housing authorities and they do not have to abide by the normal rules and regulations that around 3,100 other housing authorities have to abide by. MTWs are allowed to mix all of their administration fees, public housing funding and Section 8 funding from HUD into one big slush fund. A slush fund that lacks transparency, and makes it very difficult to follow where all the money is really going.
Authorized by Congress in 1996, the Moving To Work (MTW) demonstration program was created for a limited number of PHAs to try out new and different ways to save money, and find cheaper methods to deliver housing services. However, MTWs have morphed into agencies that have become notorious for abusing the funding from Congress. Funding that was meant to assist the poor.
As an example, HUD was under fire by an April 19, 2012, report that was issued on May 21, 2012 by the Government Accounting Office (GAO), that ridicules any assertions by HUD that an MTW's activities can be evaluated properly.
The GAO is an investigative arm of Congress with the power to examine matters related to the receipt and use of funding by Congress, and the GAO believes that MTWs are not regulated enough to properly evaluate how they are operating.
As was reported by the National Low-Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC), during a March 29, 2012 oversight hearing of THUD and DOT programs in Washington D.C., HUD Inspector General David Montoya (IG) publicly criticized the Public Housing Authority of Philadelphia, as an example of the corruption of MTWs.
Montoya (IG) stated that the PHA in Philadelphia is an MTW demonstration program that was legally allowed to use $1.1 million of it's funding to fight against the oversight of the IG's office, and was allowed to use money to hire outside legal counsel to shadow "IG staff" that were auditing the housing authority, when it should have used the money on housing poor people instead.
Since it was legal for that MTW to operate in such a way, apparently all other MTWs are allowed to abuse funds that were meant to be used for housing needs, to fight against audits by the HUD Inspector General's office.
At the same hearing, Montoya (IG) also stated that removing the MTW status from the PHA in Philadelphia would be a first good step to resolve the problems the IG is aware of at that housing authority since 2004, according to a March 30, release by the National Low-Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC).
According to the GAO report, the information available from HUD about MTWs varies, and the GAO report further revealed that HUD has declined to specify in it's rules and regulations that the performance information from an MTW must be quantifiable and outcome oriented. The lack of rules and regulations has corrupted and hampered efforts to determine if MTWs are functioning properly, and places hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding at risk of misuse, and abuse.
Further expansion of the MTW program would only jeopardize millions of dollars more in tax payer subsidies that are meant to assist the poor, but may be used for other reasons.
HUD has not established a process to assess compliance with statutory requirements for MTWs, and the report further states that HUD lacks the assurance needed to determine that an MTW is complying with the statute that governs how an MTW is supposed to operate.
Additionally, "HUD has not identified the performance data that would be needed to assess the results of similar MTW activities or the program as a whole, and has not established performance indicators for the program," according to the GAO.
The MTW program is wide open to corruption and abuse, and according to the GAO report, "HUD has not done an annual assessment of program risks despite its own requirement to do so and has not developed risk-based monitoring procedures."
Additionally, the GAO report reveals that HUD cannot verify the accuracy of information being self-reported by MTWs to HUD, and the GAO reports that HUD does not have any policies or procedures active that are needed to verify what is actually going on in an MTW housing authority.
Recent Report Exposes Major Corruption In HUD
According to public records, a February 4, 2015 testimony of David A. Montoya, Inspector General (IG), reveals that there has been massive fraud occurring in the upper ranks of management in HUD.
Recent shocking revelations in the testimony of David. A. Montoya before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Financial Services Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations reveals that HUD officials have been trying too cover up serious violations of ethical, lobbying and other violations at HUD including the hiring of convicted criminals for key housing positions.
During the committee meeting Montoya revealed that since 2013 HUD officials have allegedly been involved in major ethical violations, hiring violations, and illegal lobbying. This included the hiring of Debra Gross, an affordable housing insider from the Council of Large Public Housing Authorities (CLPHA) who was put in charge of regulatory reform at HUD while still holding a position in the organization (CLPHA) that lobbies Congress and the President on behalf of the affordable housing industry, and public housing authorities across the nation.
It is a good thing for people to lobby Congress and the President for full funding for HUD’s subsidized housing programs meant to assist the poor, but the breakdown in HUD’s polices in recent years reveals how corrupt the system has become.
According to Montoya’s testimony there has been an institutional breakdown in HUD’s policies, which appears to reflect the corruption occurring in HUD’s housing programs from the top to the bottom of the nation’s so-called affordable housing industry.
Despite on-going massive budget cuts to HUD’s housing programs, HUD has done great work for many years in the effort to promote public housing and the Section 8 voucher program that assists the poor with their housing needs. However, since members of the affordable housing industry including members from Bridge Housing and other multi-billion dollar so-called non-profit housing organizations have totally infiltrated the upper ranks of management at HUD, the lobbyists have been promoting reform changes in HUD’s subsidized housing programs that are detrimental to the needs of the poor. The members of the affordable housing industry that have infiltrated HUD are pushing for reforms that are resulting in the privatization of our nation’s 1.2 million public housing units.
Additionally, the affordable housing industry is lobbying Congress and HUD for Rental Assistance Reform (RAR) that will result in higher rents for the poor in HUD’s subsidized housing programs. Reforms being pushed for by the so-called affordable housing industry will also result in Section 8 vouchers being taken away from the poor so that they can be converted to Project-Based Vouchers that the non-profit housing developers can use to fund their own so-called affordable housing projects.
Unfortunately for the poor, most non-profit housing developers have “minimum income requirements” at their so-called affordable housing projects that discriminate against the poor.
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In my case of NOSY NEIGHBORS AND THE GANG illegal surveillance and video PORN my community is using these SECTION 8 designations to install PORN MULE PARASITES working for global banking 1% black market SEX TRADE PORN networks. Not all NOSY NEIGHBORS are tied to SECTION 8-----but many are.
What we have today with our poor/working class citizens is the use of people wanting/needing housing living in these SECTION 8 situations claiming VERY LITTLE INCOME-----while receiving these funds all while doing CRIMINAL ACTIVITY.
The PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CORPORATION AND/OR HOMEOWNER is responsible for making sure those tenets and themselves are not COMMITTING CRIMES while under this SECTION 8 designation.
Below we see that DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION becoming that CORPORATE NGO controlling SECTION 8 et al. In this case it is our BROWN 99% of WE THE PEOPLE------but, these schemes are being done by WHITE AND BLACK PLAYERS as well.
'As just one example, the East Bay Asian Local Development Corporation (EBALDC)'
Below this national FAKE NEWS media outlet let's us know there is problem---of course it looks at the RENTER-SIDE of SECTION 8 where indeed there is ABUSE----but the gorilla in room issue is the criminal frauds and organized crime perpetrated by OUTSOURCED NGOS----------PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CORPORATIONS. Nothing mentioned below in this FAKE NEWS REPORT.
These REPORTS are surfacing NOW and not 30 years ago when ROBBER BARON few decades of CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA used this process to pocket hundreds of billions of FEDERAL HUD funding. Why do we have a WAITING LIST of REAL NEEDY HOUSING-CHALLENGED people including US VETERANS?
Because all these SECTION 8 BIDDING CONTRACT FUNDS were going to political machines and global banking property investment NGOS.
This is a REAL LEFT SOCIAL PROGRESSIVE like ME-----is being HIT by NOSY NEIGHBORS AND THE GANG!
Woman Turns in Section 8 Voucher Following NBC 6 Investigation
By Willard Shepard and Arlene Borenstein
Published Oct 26, 2017 at 7:02 PM | Updated at 1:20 PM EDT on Oct 27, 2017
LaTanya Everette has been one of the lucky few in Miami-Dade County to have her rent subsidized by the county’s Housing Choice Voucher Program.
The waiting list to get a voucher has 53,587 people on it currently. Many of those people have been waiting for years.
“Clearly a much greater demand than we have supply,” says Michael Liu, Director of the Miami-Dade County Public Housing and Community Development Department.
Since 2010, a voucher has been used to pay for $1,200 of Everette’s $1,383 monthly rent at a home in Northwest Miami-Dade County, according to her landlord, and she continued to use that voucher even after getting married to Thomas Harper in 2015.
But the NBC 6 Investigators found Harper is a county employee with an income twice the maximum amount allowed for a family to qualify for the voucher.
“The program is income-based,” Liu said. “A family of four, that’s about $36,000 a year. You can’t earn more than that.”
Public records show Harper has worked as a corrections officer at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center making nearly $70,000 per year. He also has made thousands more in a part-time job with the Miami-Dade County School District.
The county requires anyone receiving voucher payments to notify them about any change in income or family size within 10 days.
“If we find out you haven’t complied with that 10-day reporting requirement, we can terminate your assistance,” says Liu.
Harper’s name is not on the voucher. Everette wouldn’t comment about her voucher.
By phone, Harper told NBC 6 Investigator Willard Shepard that he didn’t live at the home.
But NBC 6 hidden cameras saw him or his truck at the Section 8 home over a two month period including every day for more than two weeks straight. There are pictures and videos of Harper coming to the home from work wearing his uniform, heading to church on a Sunday morning and, with his wife, arriving to the home with his boat in tow.
The NBC 6 Investigators presented the findings to the couple and to the county. A spokesperson for the Housing Department said they launched an investigation.
Soon after, the spokesperson confirmed that Everette relinquished the Section 8 voucher she had used since 2010. The county often requires people found misusing a voucher to return money. For Everette’s family, the total would be nearly $36,000.
The couple retained an attorney, James DeMiles, who sent a statement on behalf of the couple.
“Mr. Harper acknowledges that he married Latanya Harper in 2015 and that she was residing in HUD housing as a part of the Miami-Dade Housing Choice Voucher Program at that time. Nevertheless, Mr. Harper had no intent to defraud any person or governmental entity. A thorough investigation will show that, under the unique facts present here, Mr. Harper never misrepresented anything, nor did he fail to disclose anything that he was required to. There is much more to this story than is apparent on its face, however, Mr. Harper is not in a position to comment on further details at this time. Mr. Harper and his wife are actively working with the Miami-Dade Housing Choice Voucher Program in an effort to bring closure to this issue and also clear his name of any perceived wrongdoing."
Between January 2016 and September 2017, Miami-Dade County’s Housing Department reports it has received more than 800 complaints about Section 8 vouchers being abused. Seventy-nine of the complaints resulted in a person having their voucher taken away. But not a single person has been prosecuted. It can be a felony to misrepresent information provided to the Housing Department.
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While REAL LEFT SOCIAL PROGRESSIVE have fought far-right wing global banking 1% CLINTON/OBAMA neo-liberals as they corrupted GOOD PUBLIC POLICY FOR OUR US POOR AND WORKING CLASS-------our RIGHT WING REPUBLICANS who have fought all FEDERAL SAFETY NET policies are now creating FAKE NEWS surrounding the dismantling of all US FEDERAL SAFETY NET programs and FDR NEW DEAL----including these SECTION 8 policies.
HOME ACT WILL FORCE ALL PRIVATE HOMEOWNERS TO ACCEPT SECTION 8-------is FALSE.
THESE SECTION 8 REFORMS ARE 'BIG GOVERNMENT' HURTING BUSINESSES----is FALSE.
Our right wing REPUBLICANS have cashed in on this ROBBER BARON privatization of HUD as well. The goals MOVING FORWARD on SECTION 8 is to END that program----as both RIGHT AND FAR-RIGHT KNOW.
'That is why The Fair Housing Act, Public Housing and 22 trillion dollars of poverty policies were created. All of these programs have become extreme and expanded far beyond their original mission'.
What is MOVING FORWARD is the handing of all those SECTION 8 FUNDS to global corporations to build WORKER DORMS. So, those pesky community development NGOS are now being replaced by GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT PROPERTY CORPORATIONS.
'Of course, it is not only the city politicians that are contributing to the Section 8 problem. County Executives like Dutch Ruppersberger, Jim Smith, and Kevin Kamenetz have all been strong supporters of Section 8 housing for their county. New County Executive Johnny Olszewski, Jr. may be the most dangerous of the entire group. Johnny O. believes in the “Home Act” which mandates that all private landlords shall be forced to accept Section 8 housing vouchers. This is an example of “big government on steroids” compelling private business owners to accept federal government intervention. This change will kick the door wide open for more Section 8 housing in Baltimore County'.
The right wing REPUBLICANS will say----WE LIKE WORKER DORMS as AFFORDABLE HOUSING-----we like global corporations to plan all development....... BUT, GLOBAL CORPORATIONS AND GLOBAL BANKING 1% ----are not our local citizens----small/domestic businesses------and even those dastardly POLITICAL MACHINES will get the AXE.
A REAL LEFT SOCIAL PROGRESSIVE can agree with a right wing REPUBLICAN for different reasons----the point is what was used by local political machines is MOVING FORWARD into the hands of global NGOS leaving no 99% WE THE PEOPLE input into how our communities will be DEVELOPED.
SECTION 8 BOMBS READY TO EXPLODE ON BALTIMORE COUNTY
December 8, 2018 frankmarchant@yahoo.com
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Everywhere I travelled during my campaign to become Baltimore County Executive, I heard strong opposition and serious concern about Section 8 housing. Citizens claimed that crime had increased and there was a serious decline in the quality of life in their neighborhoods. Any person who resides in the proximity of Section 8 housing can confirm how difficult it is to live in a neighborhood of residents who may be a nuisance. During my years as a State Legislator, I had received numerous complaints about drug dealings, noise and other disturbances. It was almost always impossible to address and fix these problems. The County or HUD refused to respond to complaints from elected officials or concerned citizens even though there are strict rules in existing law for landlords and tenants to obey. This problem is one of the first that must be corrected if Section 8 is going to have any chance of acceptance by the community. Strict enforcement should be mandated.
Many people feel that Baltimore County has been exploited by the advocates of affordable housing. Our blue collar working family neighborhoods have been saturated with Section 8 vouchers that have had a negative impact. The transference of poverty from Baltimore City to Baltimore County has increased the social services costs, lowered property values and caused more crime problems. Many residents in these neighborhoods, especially the elderly, have stated, “Enough is enough.”
A fair and objective study of the situation would ask the honest question, “Why has Baltimore City failed to accommodate its own citizens with public housing and Section 8 vouchers?” The last 2 mayors have expressed concern about Section 8 residents fleeing the city to the Promised Land to the counties. The loss of these residents will impact the amount of funds the city would receive from federal and state governments. The mayors know this situation will create a hard hit on their budgets. The mayor and other city politicians refuse to admit that it is their failed leadership on crime, education and other matters that it is causing people to vote with their feet. County residents are asking the proper question, “Why should we be the victims of their failure?”
REAL LEFT SOCIAL PROGRESSIVES ARE ASKING THE SAME THING---WHY DOES NOT BALTIMORE CITY DEVELOP REAL AFFORDABLE HOUSING AND USE THESE SECTION 8 VOUCHERS?
Of course, it is not only the city politicians that are contributing to the Section 8 problem. County Executives like Dutch Ruppersberger, Jim Smith, and Kevin Kamenetz have all been strong supporters of Section 8 housing for their county. New County Executive Johnny Olszewski, Jr. may be the most dangerous of the entire group. Johnny O. believes in the “Home Act” which mandates that all private landlords shall be forced to accept Section 8 housing vouchers. This is an example of “big government on steroids” compelling private business owners to accept federal government intervention. This change will kick the door wide open for more Section 8 housing in Baltimore County.
ALL THE ABOVE POLS ARE GLOBAL BANKING 1% OLD WORLD KINGS---KNIGHTS OF MALTA TRIBE OF JUDAH WORKING TO PLACE ALL US REAL ESTATE INTO THE HANDS OF OLD WORLD KINGS---THAT IS WHY THEY ARE PUSHING THIS SECTION 8 POLICY.
The picture continues to grow even worse. There is a new program based on the stupid idea that if poor people are provided with the opportunity to live in better neighborhoods, they will benefit. This is another scam to project more Section 8 housing into previously untouched territory. Get ready to be on the alert in Kingsville, Monkton, Hereford and other inviting areas. The social engineers believe that these neighborhoods will provide a better life for the disadvantaged, even though there are no jobs, transportation assets or discounted benefits that are in these areas. The Section 8 promoters will maintain that the young ones will receive a special advantage by attending Kingsville Elementary School. The residents of Kingsville might ask the question, “Why can’t the educational leaders in Baltimore City produce a quality school like Kingsville Elementary in their community.
Another problem is Governor Hogan’s support for Section 8 housing in Baltimore County. Michael White, assistant to Maryland Housing Secretary Kenneth C. Holt, said “The Hogan administration understands the positive impact of affordable housing”. The state has created almost 5000 affordable units in the last fiscal year.
The Hogan administration in 2014 passed a law that removed the counties veto power over Section 8 housing developments. This change means that local residents can no longer complain to their County Executives or County Council members for relief. This development means that Big Brother state government removes local government authority. Private housing developers can receive tax credits from the state to promote construction for access for Section 8 housing. This means that taxpayers are being forced to fund the destruction of our neighborhoods.
Above all of this unified action by advocates of Section 8 housing, many from outside of Baltimore County, is a legal directive from a Federal Judge claiming our county has been practicing discrimination in housing. There was no real proof supporting this Judicial action or charge but the County Government refused to fight for the best interest of the County residents and just rolled over. The future picture is bleak, Section 8 housing from Dundalk to Arbutus and invading our most stable neighborhoods like Kingsville and Monkton will become a reality. What can the good people of this county do to protect their families and future. Here is my action plan.
This article will generate name calling and character assassination. That response is predictable. I hope you stand with me of the side of Truth. It is ours families, our neighborhoods and our county that are the victims. It is about time to rise to the occasion and fight back. All fair minded Americans know that the disadvantaged and those experiencing a tough time deserve practical assistance. That is why The Fair Housing Act, Public Housing and 22 trillion dollars of poverty policies were created. All of these programs have become extreme and expanded far beyond their original mission. A young mother said to me the other day, “I would like to live in a mansion and own a luxury vehicle, but I cannot afford that lifestyle. I do not expect my fellow citizens to pay for my dreams”. I say it is time for our side of the story to be told without accusations by the same cast of characters who are always ready to proclaim their righteousness and condemn the people who are victims of their policies.
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We will discuss tomorrow how this FAKE DEMOCRAT----KAMENETZ -----being far-right wing global banking 1% OLD WORLD KINGS -----is absolutely USING these once REAL LEFT SOCIAL PROGRESSIVE policies on helping low-income own and rent properties-------the goals here are to basically identify global corporate campuses and factories as the one's FORCED to take these SECTION 8 FUNDS.
KAMENETZ FORCING GLOBAL CORPORATIONS TO TAKE WHAT WAS ONCE FDR NEW DEAL public housing funds? YOU BETCHA.
Nothing says HOUSING DISCRIMINATION then these few decades of CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA---and MOVING FORWARD pretending these policies are FORCING BUSINESSES to take our US FEDERAL FUNDS.
All those SECTION 8 funds once going to individual working class homeowners trying to make ends meet---all those low-income RENTERS choosing where they might get rent subsidies---all MOVING FORWARD to being handed to GLOBAL CORPORATIONS.
it really was the only way many of our US working class homeowners could afford to own a home. It was the only way a low-income citizen could assure to stay HOUSING SECURE.
Baltimore County to consider bill forcing landlords to take Section 8
In suburban Baltimore County, county executive Kevin Kamenetz has introduced a bill to ban “housing voucher discrimination,” that is to say, a bill requiring landlords to take Section 8 tenants. “Kamenetz is required to introduce the bill as part of a housing discrimination settlement with the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development that was reached this year. … If [it] does not pass the County Council, the HUD settlement requires it to be reintroduced in future years.” Landlords and property owners say that it is unfair to force them to enroll against their will in a program with cumbersome paperwork and inspections. [Pamela Wood, Baltimore Sun] HUD is now arm-twisting jurisdictions nationwide into enacting these bad laws; earlier here (bad renter trashes unit), here, etc.
HOME Act draws mixed reaction at Baltimore County work session
A controversial bill making its way through the Baltimore County Council is focused on ending housing discrimination, but not everyone likes it.
The Housing Opportunity Made Equal Act would make it illegal for landlords to discriminate based on income source, including Section 8 housing vouchers. The bill is part of a mandate from the federal government.
"It prohibits landlords from engaging in discriminatory action based on source of income," said County Councilman Izzy Patoka, D-District 2.
The County Council held a public work session Tuesday and heard comments from dozens of people who came out to represent both sides of the issue.
Sharonda Ellerby said she experienced discrimination firsthand. She's a business owner now, but in the 1990s, she had a difficult time finding a home to rent using a voucher.
"They just always had the presumption that Section 8 is terrible people, welfare recipients who are going to tear up their property, and they just had no interest in it, and not everybody is that way," Ellerby said.
But not everybody is in favor of the bill. Ken Mazza is a landlord who objects to the bill.
"It has nothing to do with the individual. It's having the county tell me, or the government tell me, who I can and can't rent my property to," Mazza said. "You shouldn't be able to tell somebody that owns property who they have to rent to. That's a basic right we all have. I pay taxes here and I don't feel they should use my money for Section 8."
But Patoka said landlords can still deny renters based on things like credit, tenant history and criminal background.
"Whatever criteria the landlord uses in terms of credit, the landlord should, by all means, use that. What they can't do is discriminate on source of income," Patoka said.
Advocates said the bill is long overdue and will help many county residents.
'"It will help a great deal because you're talking about veterans, you're talking about seniors, you're talking about people with disabilities," said Paula Cuffie'.
"I hope the bill gets passed, and I hope it helps a lot of people that are really trying to use the voucher for the right reasons," Ellerby said.
The County Council is scheduled to vote on the bill Monday.
Until CLINTON era all this was handled by a local PUBLIC HUD-----and each person asking to be a SECTION 8 HOUSE---or a SECTION 8 renter filed and was handled by EQUAL OPPORTUNITY AND ACCESS HOUSING policies.
A HOMEOWNER does not have to be a SECTION 8 person---they can CHOOSE to enter that program. This program worked well for most of last century BECAUSE there were plenty of WORKING CLASS HOMEOWNERS wanting a SUBSIDY from a SECTION 8 renter.
SO, until CLINTON ERA-----this SECTION 8 HOUSING worked as REAL LEFT SOCIAL PROGRESSIVE liberal public policy helping working class 99% WE THE PEOPLE black, white, and brown citizens.
'Understanding The Origins and Purpose Of Section 8 Housing
The origin of Section 8 goes back to the U.S. Housing Act of 1937, the legislation passed during the Great Depression to try and address the worst economic and housing crisis in American history'.
We see below that CLINTON ERA changed this program by PRIVATIZING the FEDERAL HUD AGENCY. These Federal SECTION 8 HOUSING funds went from being allocated equally and locally to being CONTRACT BID via LOCAL HUD having become CORPORATE.
Global banking 1% CLINTON/BUSH in 1990s privatized HUD at the same time creating a CORPORATE/BUSINESS CONTRACT BID structure. So, it moved from being a local working class homeowner to progressively larger PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CORPORATIONS getting that SECTION 8 funding.
ERGO, THIS STARTED THE PROCESS OF SECTION 8 BECOMING UNJUST-----PREDATORY---AND PROFITEERING BY WEALTHY PROPERTY INVESTMENT CORPORATIONS.
When our US WE THE LOW-INCOME citizens say this process is corrupt----THIS IS WHY. It started and soared during CLINTON/BUSH
HOME
Section 8 of the United States Housing Act of 1937
By: Amy Wilde
RelatedSection 8 Apartment Guide
The United States Housing Act of 1937 sought to improve the quality of housing for Americans, especially disadvantaged and low-income citizens. Section 8 of the act declared that the government would provide rental assistance to lower-income families and individuals seeking housing, and it set out the guidelines by which the government would give that assistance. The Section 8 program is still a crucial support for low-income families in the U.S. today.
How Renters Qualify
To qualify to receive Section 8 benefits, a family's income has to be less than 50 percent of the median income in the area they're applying, or occasionally 80 percent of the median income with certain exceptions. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) determines the rental contribution each family makes, which usually does not exceed 30 percent of the family's adjusted income or 10 percent of their gross income, whichever amount is greater. HUD then issues qualifying families a voucher that they can use for rental of any participating property, including apartment buildings and single-family properties.
The United States Housing Act of 1937 sought to improve the quality of housing for Americans, especially disadvantaged and low-income citizens. Section 8 of the act declared that the government would provide rental assistance to lower-income families and individuals seeking housing, and it set out the guidelines by which the government would give that assistance. The Section 8 program is still a crucial support for low-income families in the U.S. today.
How Housing Providers Qualify
Only public housing agencies who seek to provide housing to low-income families can qualify to participate in the Section 8 program. In areas where no qualifying public housing agencies exist, private nonprofit organizations may qualify. A contract is drawn up in which HUD determines how many units in a building will be reserved for Section 8 families and the rental value of each unit based on the current market. HUD then pays owners the difference between the established value of a unit and what it is determined the occupying family should pay.
Owners must abide by the terms of their Section 8 contracts, including reserving the agreed upon number of units for Section 8 families, keeping the property clean, safe and in good repair, and providing financial accountability to HUD. Owners also have the responsibility to select Section 8 tenants on the basis of income and tenancy requirements and in a non-discriminatory way. HUD reevaluates the rental value of a participant's Section 8 units at least annually.
The United States Housing Act of 1937 sought to improve the quality of housing for Americans, especially disadvantaged and low-income citizens. Section 8 of the act declared that the government would provide rental assistance to lower-income families and individuals seeking housing, and it set out the guidelines by which the government would give that assistance. The Section 8 program is still a crucial support for low-income families in the U.S. today.
Tentants' Rights and Responsibilities
Renters who receive Section 8 benefits must sign a standard lease that is usually a year in length. They must abide by the terms of the lease, but an owner can only evict Section 8 renters for serious or repeated breaches of the lease as well as illegal or unsafe activities. Families receiving Section 8 benefits must submit proof that their household income still qualifies them for the program at least once a year.
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What became individual homeowners receiving SECTION 8 designation of course in 1990s became PRIVATIZED CORPORATIONS both NGO and private. Local HUD controlled by political machines first OUTSOURCED local HUD to PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CORPORATIONS-----then awarded these funds to CORPORATE structures as we see below EBALDC.
'but an owner can only evict Section 8 renters for serious or repeated breaches of the lease as well as illegal or unsafe activities'.
EBALDC sells itself as a HOUSING JUSTICE NGO------but the entire process was corrupted as political machines used these SECTION 8 FUNDS for their employees with city/state----or private politician business
LIKE------NOSY NEIGHBORS AND THE GANG---ILLEGAL SURVEILLANCE VIDEO AND PORN TO 'HIT' FOR POWER ---FOR CONTROL-----FOR MAKING BLACK MARKET MONEY.
These community development structures are controlled by MAYORS who are controlled by of course national political machines.
'What is not being told to the public and tax payers who subsidize EBALDC’s rental properties in Oakland and the East Bay is that EBALDC has been providing tax payer subsidized housing to some of it’s employees in their numerous subsidized housing sites'.
As soon as our US FEDERAL agencies started to deal with NGOS and not individual citizens ----these agencies became filled with CORRUPTION AND CRIMINAL ACTIVITY.
Again, this was CLINTON/BUSH-----1990S-----2000S
What difference did it make when OBAMA changed this FDR ERA NEW DEAL program from contract bidding of HUD controlled funds to GRANTING structures?
First, most said this was UNCONSTITUTIONAL use of these SECTION 8 FUNDS. Next, most people understood once a door is opened to CHANGING/REFORMING a civil agency policy----THAT DOOR CAN/WILL REMAIN OPEN for coming election cycles.
OBAMA KNEW THESE CHANGES TO SECTION 8 WOULD CREATE A CONSTITUTIONAL CHALLENGE TO THE ENTIRE SECTION 8 PROCESS.
This is how a highly functioning NEW DEAL housing policy being REAL LEFT SOCIAL PROGRESSIVE morphed into massive frauds, corruption, and criminal use by political machines to control communities.
Corruption is rampant at HUD and affordable housing projects
by Lynda Carson (tenantsrule [at] yahoo.com)
Thursday Feb 12th, 2015 12:14 AM
What is happening at Effie’s House and EBALDC is just one bright shining example of what is happening throughout the City of Oakland in the many subsidized housing projects owned by numerous non-profit housing developers that are members of the East Bay Housing Organizations (EBHO)!
Corruption is rampant at HUD and affordable housing projects
By Lynda Carson - February 12, 2015
Oakland - As important as HUD and it’s subsidized housing programs are to veterans, the poor, elderly and disabled, corruption is rampant from the top to the bottom in the realm of HUD and it’s tax payer subsidized housing programs. Corruption that is unfair to the homeless and low-income persons on the waiting lists trying to get into a so-called affordable housing project.
As just one example, the East Bay Asian Local Development Corporation (EBALDC) is one of Oakland’s largest nonprofit housing developers using tax credits to fund it’s subsidized housing projects for the poor, in addition to providing housing to low-income tenants with Section 8 vouchers, and Shelter Plus Vouchers. Additionally, EBALDC receives funding from the Home Program, and federal subsidized Section 8 Project-Based Vouchers in addition to grants and funding from numerous other federal programs being used to subsidize and fund it’s many so-called affordable housing sites, and programs.
Politically active like many others in the multi-billion dollar affordable housing industry, public records from the Federal Election Commission (FEC) reveal that during 2012 EBALDC gave $100 to Obama For America.
In it’s website EBALDC claims to have developed 1,918 homes to house around 3,600 people in the East Bay. EBALDC also claims that the organization directly manages 1,126 residential rental units in 19 properties, and have developed and manage more than 300,000 square feet of commercial space at their properties.
What is not being told to the public and tax payers who subsidize EBALDC’s rental properties in Oakland and the East Bay is that EBALDC has been providing tax payer subsidized housing to some of it’s employees in their numerous subsidized housing sites.
Additionally, it appears that it is totally legal to provide subsidized housing to the friends and relatives of EBALDC’s employees, and often they get preferential treatment over persons on the housing waiting lists including the homeless, elderly, and disabled desperately seeking affordable housing. In comparison, these types of activities are totally prohibited in public housing projects all across the nation.
The rules and regulations are not nearly as rigid for the non-profit housing developers receiving federal funds in the so-called affordable housing industry as they are for the nation’s 3,100 Public Housing Authorities (PHAs) that provide public housing, and Section 8 vouchers to the poor.
The PHAs receive their funding from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to fund their programs. Many affordable housing developers receive funding from local PHAs that provide Section 8 Project-Based Vouchers to the non-profit housing developers in the affordable housing industry. The Project-Based Vouchers are used to fund long-term subsidized housing projects owned by non-profit organizations in the affordable housing industry.
One might even say that the so-called affordable housing industry has totally corrupted the original intent of the public housing program that it cannot compete with, and has been desperately trying to destroy in it’s efforts to grab as much federal funding as is possible for it’s own for profit housing projects. Currently the affordable housing industry is moving as fast as possible to promote the privatization of public housing, and many non-profit housing developers are seeking federal funding through the Rental Assistance Demonstration program (RAD) in the effort to grab as many public housing units as is possible to add to their own empire.
Corruption In Affordable Housing
Indeed, corruption is rampant in the affordable housing industry. As an example, Effie’s House is a 21 unit subsidized housing project owned by EBALDC in Oakland. EBALDC got it’s hands on the property in a sweetheart deal back in 1997 through the City of Oakland when the owner at that time could not afford to replace a broken boiler system in the building. The tenants spent around a year or more without any heat or hot water in the building before EBALDC took control of the property.
Fast forward to 2014. During October of 2014, Katherine Mull, a well compensated Property Manager for EBALDC who works in their main office and oversees their commercial properties jumped ahead of the line on the housing “waiting list” and moved into a studio apartment at Effie’s House. Top management at EBALDC gave her the title of “On-site Manager” at Effie’s House, and one of the first things Katherine Mull did when moving in was to allow her boyfriend to move into the subsidized housing unit with her. A boyfriend who was also allowed to jump ahead of all the others on a waiting list to move into the subsidized housing project. Management declines to state whether or not the boyfriend went through any back-ground checks, or an income certification process before moving into the building.
Since Danny Chen is the Property Manager at Effie’s House and can be found on-site in the building office 4-days a week at the location, and notices to the tenants advising them not to bother Katherine Mull unless it is an emergency, the tenants are not certain what Katherine Mull actually does at Effie’s House as the so-called On-site Manager.
The tenants generally call 911 when there is a real emergency, or they contact Property Manager Danny Chen. Additionally, the tenants have also been advised by notice not to call Mull on her cell phone, and have been told by management that if they lose the keys to their apartment that it is not an emergency. Being too poor to afford a locksmith when losing their keys and finding themselves locked out of their homes is definitely an emergency for the tenants at Effie’s House, no matter what EBALDC may falsely claim.
According to state law property managers are required to have a real estate license, but a check of the records for the Department of Real Estate reveals that property manager’s Katherine Mull and Danny Chen do not have a real estate license.
What is happening at Effie’s House and EBALDC is just one bright shining example of what is happening throughout the City of Oakland in the many subsidized housing projects owned by numerous non-profit housing developers that are members of the East Bay Housing Organizations (EBHO).
Obama Is Pushing For Further Corruption Of HUD’s Subsidized Housing Programs
Making matters worse, in the latest federal budget proposals released by the Obama administration during the first week of February, Obama is pushing for the further weakening of the rules and regulations for Public Housing Authorities (PHAs) all across the nation. The President is pushing for the expansion of the Moving To Work (MTW) demonstration program that has already totally corrupted around 35 housing authorities across the nation. There are currently around 35 MTW housing authorities and they do not have to abide by the normal rules and regulations that around 3,100 other housing authorities have to abide by. MTWs are allowed to mix all of their administration fees, public housing funding and Section 8 funding from HUD into one big slush fund. A slush fund that lacks transparency, and makes it very difficult to follow where all the money is really going.
Authorized by Congress in 1996, the Moving To Work (MTW) demonstration program was created for a limited number of PHAs to try out new and different ways to save money, and find cheaper methods to deliver housing services. However, MTWs have morphed into agencies that have become notorious for abusing the funding from Congress. Funding that was meant to assist the poor.
As an example, HUD was under fire by an April 19, 2012, report that was issued on May 21, 2012 by the Government Accounting Office (GAO), that ridicules any assertions by HUD that an MTW's activities can be evaluated properly.
The GAO is an investigative arm of Congress with the power to examine matters related to the receipt and use of funding by Congress, and the GAO believes that MTWs are not regulated enough to properly evaluate how they are operating.
As was reported by the National Low-Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC), during a March 29, 2012 oversight hearing of THUD and DOT programs in Washington D.C., HUD Inspector General David Montoya (IG) publicly criticized the Public Housing Authority of Philadelphia, as an example of the corruption of MTWs.
Montoya (IG) stated that the PHA in Philadelphia is an MTW demonstration program that was legally allowed to use $1.1 million of it's funding to fight against the oversight of the IG's office, and was allowed to use money to hire outside legal counsel to shadow "IG staff" that were auditing the housing authority, when it should have used the money on housing poor people instead.
Since it was legal for that MTW to operate in such a way, apparently all other MTWs are allowed to abuse funds that were meant to be used for housing needs, to fight against audits by the HUD Inspector General's office.
At the same hearing, Montoya (IG) also stated that removing the MTW status from the PHA in Philadelphia would be a first good step to resolve the problems the IG is aware of at that housing authority since 2004, according to a March 30, release by the National Low-Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC).
According to the GAO report, the information available from HUD about MTWs varies, and the GAO report further revealed that HUD has declined to specify in it's rules and regulations that the performance information from an MTW must be quantifiable and outcome oriented. The lack of rules and regulations has corrupted and hampered efforts to determine if MTWs are functioning properly, and places hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding at risk of misuse, and abuse.
Further expansion of the MTW program would only jeopardize millions of dollars more in tax payer subsidies that are meant to assist the poor, but may be used for other reasons.
HUD has not established a process to assess compliance with statutory requirements for MTWs, and the report further states that HUD lacks the assurance needed to determine that an MTW is complying with the statute that governs how an MTW is supposed to operate.
Additionally, "HUD has not identified the performance data that would be needed to assess the results of similar MTW activities or the program as a whole, and has not established performance indicators for the program," according to the GAO.
The MTW program is wide open to corruption and abuse, and according to the GAO report, "HUD has not done an annual assessment of program risks despite its own requirement to do so and has not developed risk-based monitoring procedures."
Additionally, the GAO report reveals that HUD cannot verify the accuracy of information being self-reported by MTWs to HUD, and the GAO reports that HUD does not have any policies or procedures active that are needed to verify what is actually going on in an MTW housing authority.
Recent Report Exposes Major Corruption In HUD
According to public records, a February 4, 2015 testimony of David A. Montoya, Inspector General (IG), reveals that there has been massive fraud occurring in the upper ranks of management in HUD.
Recent shocking revelations in the testimony of David. A. Montoya before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Financial Services Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations reveals that HUD officials have been trying too cover up serious violations of ethical, lobbying and other violations at HUD including the hiring of convicted criminals for key housing positions.
During the committee meeting Montoya revealed that since 2013 HUD officials have allegedly been involved in major ethical violations, hiring violations, and illegal lobbying. This included the hiring of Debra Gross, an affordable housing insider from the Council of Large Public Housing Authorities (CLPHA) who was put in charge of regulatory reform at HUD while still holding a position in the organization (CLPHA) that lobbies Congress and the President on behalf of the affordable housing industry, and public housing authorities across the nation.
It is a good thing for people to lobby Congress and the President for full funding for HUD’s subsidized housing programs meant to assist the poor, but the breakdown in HUD’s polices in recent years reveals how corrupt the system has become.
According to Montoya’s testimony there has been an institutional breakdown in HUD’s policies, which appears to reflect the corruption occurring in HUD’s housing programs from the top to the bottom of the nation’s so-called affordable housing industry.
Despite on-going massive budget cuts to HUD’s housing programs, HUD has done great work for many years in the effort to promote public housing and the Section 8 voucher program that assists the poor with their housing needs. However, since members of the affordable housing industry including members from Bridge Housing and other multi-billion dollar so-called non-profit housing organizations have totally infiltrated the upper ranks of management at HUD, the lobbyists have been promoting reform changes in HUD’s subsidized housing programs that are detrimental to the needs of the poor. The members of the affordable housing industry that have infiltrated HUD are pushing for reforms that are resulting in the privatization of our nation’s 1.2 million public housing units.
Additionally, the affordable housing industry is lobbying Congress and HUD for Rental Assistance Reform (RAR) that will result in higher rents for the poor in HUD’s subsidized housing programs. Reforms being pushed for by the so-called affordable housing industry will also result in Section 8 vouchers being taken away from the poor so that they can be converted to Project-Based Vouchers that the non-profit housing developers can use to fund their own so-called affordable housing projects.
Unfortunately for the poor, most non-profit housing developers have “minimum income requirements” at their so-called affordable housing projects that discriminate against the poor.
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In my case of NOSY NEIGHBORS AND THE GANG illegal surveillance and video PORN my community is using these SECTION 8 designations to install PORN MULE PARASITES working for global banking 1% black market SEX TRADE PORN networks. Not all NOSY NEIGHBORS are tied to SECTION 8-----but many are.
What we have today with our poor/working class citizens is the use of people wanting/needing housing living in these SECTION 8 situations claiming VERY LITTLE INCOME-----while receiving these funds all while doing CRIMINAL ACTIVITY.
The PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CORPORATION AND/OR HOMEOWNER is responsible for making sure those tenets and themselves are not COMMITTING CRIMES while under this SECTION 8 designation.
Below we see that DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION becoming that CORPORATE NGO controlling SECTION 8 et al. In this case it is our BROWN 99% of WE THE PEOPLE------but, these schemes are being done by WHITE AND BLACK PLAYERS as well.
'As just one example, the East Bay Asian Local Development Corporation (EBALDC)'
Below this national FAKE NEWS media outlet let's us know there is problem---of course it looks at the RENTER-SIDE of SECTION 8 where indeed there is ABUSE----but the gorilla in room issue is the criminal frauds and organized crime perpetrated by OUTSOURCED NGOS----------PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CORPORATIONS. Nothing mentioned below in this FAKE NEWS REPORT.
These REPORTS are surfacing NOW and not 30 years ago when ROBBER BARON few decades of CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA used this process to pocket hundreds of billions of FEDERAL HUD funding. Why do we have a WAITING LIST of REAL NEEDY HOUSING-CHALLENGED people including US VETERANS?
Because all these SECTION 8 BIDDING CONTRACT FUNDS were going to political machines and global banking property investment NGOS.
This is a REAL LEFT SOCIAL PROGRESSIVE like ME-----is being HIT by NOSY NEIGHBORS AND THE GANG!
Woman Turns in Section 8 Voucher Following NBC 6 Investigation
By Willard Shepard and Arlene Borenstein
Published Oct 26, 2017 at 7:02 PM | Updated at 1:20 PM EDT on Oct 27, 2017
LaTanya Everette has been one of the lucky few in Miami-Dade County to have her rent subsidized by the county’s Housing Choice Voucher Program.
The waiting list to get a voucher has 53,587 people on it currently. Many of those people have been waiting for years.
“Clearly a much greater demand than we have supply,” says Michael Liu, Director of the Miami-Dade County Public Housing and Community Development Department.
Since 2010, a voucher has been used to pay for $1,200 of Everette’s $1,383 monthly rent at a home in Northwest Miami-Dade County, according to her landlord, and she continued to use that voucher even after getting married to Thomas Harper in 2015.
But the NBC 6 Investigators found Harper is a county employee with an income twice the maximum amount allowed for a family to qualify for the voucher.
“The program is income-based,” Liu said. “A family of four, that’s about $36,000 a year. You can’t earn more than that.”
Public records show Harper has worked as a corrections officer at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center making nearly $70,000 per year. He also has made thousands more in a part-time job with the Miami-Dade County School District.
The county requires anyone receiving voucher payments to notify them about any change in income or family size within 10 days.
“If we find out you haven’t complied with that 10-day reporting requirement, we can terminate your assistance,” says Liu.
Harper’s name is not on the voucher. Everette wouldn’t comment about her voucher.
By phone, Harper told NBC 6 Investigator Willard Shepard that he didn’t live at the home.
But NBC 6 hidden cameras saw him or his truck at the Section 8 home over a two month period including every day for more than two weeks straight. There are pictures and videos of Harper coming to the home from work wearing his uniform, heading to church on a Sunday morning and, with his wife, arriving to the home with his boat in tow.
The NBC 6 Investigators presented the findings to the couple and to the county. A spokesperson for the Housing Department said they launched an investigation.
Soon after, the spokesperson confirmed that Everette relinquished the Section 8 voucher she had used since 2010. The county often requires people found misusing a voucher to return money. For Everette’s family, the total would be nearly $36,000.
The couple retained an attorney, James DeMiles, who sent a statement on behalf of the couple.
“Mr. Harper acknowledges that he married Latanya Harper in 2015 and that she was residing in HUD housing as a part of the Miami-Dade Housing Choice Voucher Program at that time. Nevertheless, Mr. Harper had no intent to defraud any person or governmental entity. A thorough investigation will show that, under the unique facts present here, Mr. Harper never misrepresented anything, nor did he fail to disclose anything that he was required to. There is much more to this story than is apparent on its face, however, Mr. Harper is not in a position to comment on further details at this time. Mr. Harper and his wife are actively working with the Miami-Dade Housing Choice Voucher Program in an effort to bring closure to this issue and also clear his name of any perceived wrongdoing."
Between January 2016 and September 2017, Miami-Dade County’s Housing Department reports it has received more than 800 complaints about Section 8 vouchers being abused. Seventy-nine of the complaints resulted in a person having their voucher taken away. But not a single person has been prosecuted. It can be a felony to misrepresent information provided to the Housing Department.
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While REAL LEFT SOCIAL PROGRESSIVE have fought far-right wing global banking 1% CLINTON/OBAMA neo-liberals as they corrupted GOOD PUBLIC POLICY FOR OUR US POOR AND WORKING CLASS-------our RIGHT WING REPUBLICANS who have fought all FEDERAL SAFETY NET policies are now creating FAKE NEWS surrounding the dismantling of all US FEDERAL SAFETY NET programs and FDR NEW DEAL----including these SECTION 8 policies.
HOME ACT WILL FORCE ALL PRIVATE HOMEOWNERS TO ACCEPT SECTION 8-------is FALSE.
THESE SECTION 8 REFORMS ARE 'BIG GOVERNMENT' HURTING BUSINESSES----is FALSE.
Our right wing REPUBLICANS have cashed in on this ROBBER BARON privatization of HUD as well. The goals MOVING FORWARD on SECTION 8 is to END that program----as both RIGHT AND FAR-RIGHT KNOW.
'That is why The Fair Housing Act, Public Housing and 22 trillion dollars of poverty policies were created. All of these programs have become extreme and expanded far beyond their original mission'.
What is MOVING FORWARD is the handing of all those SECTION 8 FUNDS to global corporations to build WORKER DORMS. So, those pesky community development NGOS are now being replaced by GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT PROPERTY CORPORATIONS.
'Of course, it is not only the city politicians that are contributing to the Section 8 problem. County Executives like Dutch Ruppersberger, Jim Smith, and Kevin Kamenetz have all been strong supporters of Section 8 housing for their county. New County Executive Johnny Olszewski, Jr. may be the most dangerous of the entire group. Johnny O. believes in the “Home Act” which mandates that all private landlords shall be forced to accept Section 8 housing vouchers. This is an example of “big government on steroids” compelling private business owners to accept federal government intervention. This change will kick the door wide open for more Section 8 housing in Baltimore County'.
The right wing REPUBLICANS will say----WE LIKE WORKER DORMS as AFFORDABLE HOUSING-----we like global corporations to plan all development....... BUT, GLOBAL CORPORATIONS AND GLOBAL BANKING 1% ----are not our local citizens----small/domestic businesses------and even those dastardly POLITICAL MACHINES will get the AXE.
A REAL LEFT SOCIAL PROGRESSIVE can agree with a right wing REPUBLICAN for different reasons----the point is what was used by local political machines is MOVING FORWARD into the hands of global NGOS leaving no 99% WE THE PEOPLE input into how our communities will be DEVELOPED.
SECTION 8 BOMBS READY TO EXPLODE ON BALTIMORE COUNTY
December 8, 2018 frankmarchant@yahoo.com
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Everywhere I travelled during my campaign to become Baltimore County Executive, I heard strong opposition and serious concern about Section 8 housing. Citizens claimed that crime had increased and there was a serious decline in the quality of life in their neighborhoods. Any person who resides in the proximity of Section 8 housing can confirm how difficult it is to live in a neighborhood of residents who may be a nuisance. During my years as a State Legislator, I had received numerous complaints about drug dealings, noise and other disturbances. It was almost always impossible to address and fix these problems. The County or HUD refused to respond to complaints from elected officials or concerned citizens even though there are strict rules in existing law for landlords and tenants to obey. This problem is one of the first that must be corrected if Section 8 is going to have any chance of acceptance by the community. Strict enforcement should be mandated.
Many people feel that Baltimore County has been exploited by the advocates of affordable housing. Our blue collar working family neighborhoods have been saturated with Section 8 vouchers that have had a negative impact. The transference of poverty from Baltimore City to Baltimore County has increased the social services costs, lowered property values and caused more crime problems. Many residents in these neighborhoods, especially the elderly, have stated, “Enough is enough.”
A fair and objective study of the situation would ask the honest question, “Why has Baltimore City failed to accommodate its own citizens with public housing and Section 8 vouchers?” The last 2 mayors have expressed concern about Section 8 residents fleeing the city to the Promised Land to the counties. The loss of these residents will impact the amount of funds the city would receive from federal and state governments. The mayors know this situation will create a hard hit on their budgets. The mayor and other city politicians refuse to admit that it is their failed leadership on crime, education and other matters that it is causing people to vote with their feet. County residents are asking the proper question, “Why should we be the victims of their failure?”
REAL LEFT SOCIAL PROGRESSIVES ARE ASKING THE SAME THING---WHY DOES NOT BALTIMORE CITY DEVELOP REAL AFFORDABLE HOUSING AND USE THESE SECTION 8 VOUCHERS?
Of course, it is not only the city politicians that are contributing to the Section 8 problem. County Executives like Dutch Ruppersberger, Jim Smith, and Kevin Kamenetz have all been strong supporters of Section 8 housing for their county. New County Executive Johnny Olszewski, Jr. may be the most dangerous of the entire group. Johnny O. believes in the “Home Act” which mandates that all private landlords shall be forced to accept Section 8 housing vouchers. This is an example of “big government on steroids” compelling private business owners to accept federal government intervention. This change will kick the door wide open for more Section 8 housing in Baltimore County.
ALL THE ABOVE POLS ARE GLOBAL BANKING 1% OLD WORLD KINGS---KNIGHTS OF MALTA TRIBE OF JUDAH WORKING TO PLACE ALL US REAL ESTATE INTO THE HANDS OF OLD WORLD KINGS---THAT IS WHY THEY ARE PUSHING THIS SECTION 8 POLICY.
The picture continues to grow even worse. There is a new program based on the stupid idea that if poor people are provided with the opportunity to live in better neighborhoods, they will benefit. This is another scam to project more Section 8 housing into previously untouched territory. Get ready to be on the alert in Kingsville, Monkton, Hereford and other inviting areas. The social engineers believe that these neighborhoods will provide a better life for the disadvantaged, even though there are no jobs, transportation assets or discounted benefits that are in these areas. The Section 8 promoters will maintain that the young ones will receive a special advantage by attending Kingsville Elementary School. The residents of Kingsville might ask the question, “Why can’t the educational leaders in Baltimore City produce a quality school like Kingsville Elementary in their community.
Another problem is Governor Hogan’s support for Section 8 housing in Baltimore County. Michael White, assistant to Maryland Housing Secretary Kenneth C. Holt, said “The Hogan administration understands the positive impact of affordable housing”. The state has created almost 5000 affordable units in the last fiscal year.
The Hogan administration in 2014 passed a law that removed the counties veto power over Section 8 housing developments. This change means that local residents can no longer complain to their County Executives or County Council members for relief. This development means that Big Brother state government removes local government authority. Private housing developers can receive tax credits from the state to promote construction for access for Section 8 housing. This means that taxpayers are being forced to fund the destruction of our neighborhoods.
Above all of this unified action by advocates of Section 8 housing, many from outside of Baltimore County, is a legal directive from a Federal Judge claiming our county has been practicing discrimination in housing. There was no real proof supporting this Judicial action or charge but the County Government refused to fight for the best interest of the County residents and just rolled over. The future picture is bleak, Section 8 housing from Dundalk to Arbutus and invading our most stable neighborhoods like Kingsville and Monkton will become a reality. What can the good people of this county do to protect their families and future. Here is my action plan.
- Petition the County Executive to declare a moratorium on all new Section 8 housing.
- Petition the County Executive to direct the County Law Office to file suit against the current Federal Judicial Directive.
- Petition the County Executive to create a Blue Ribbon Commission to study the impact of Section 8 housing on the quality of life in Baltimore County neighborhoods.
- Petition the County Executive to conduct a county wide inspection of all Section 8 units to investigate compliance with all federal, state and local laws and regulations.
- Petition the County Executive to establish a special action unit in the County Executive office to respond immediately to all Section 8 related complaints by concerned citizens.
- Petition the County Executive to remove the Housing office from the Human Resources department and transform it into and aggressive cabinet level department.
This article will generate name calling and character assassination. That response is predictable. I hope you stand with me of the side of Truth. It is ours families, our neighborhoods and our county that are the victims. It is about time to rise to the occasion and fight back. All fair minded Americans know that the disadvantaged and those experiencing a tough time deserve practical assistance. That is why The Fair Housing Act, Public Housing and 22 trillion dollars of poverty policies were created. All of these programs have become extreme and expanded far beyond their original mission. A young mother said to me the other day, “I would like to live in a mansion and own a luxury vehicle, but I cannot afford that lifestyle. I do not expect my fellow citizens to pay for my dreams”. I say it is time for our side of the story to be told without accusations by the same cast of characters who are always ready to proclaim their righteousness and condemn the people who are victims of their policies.
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We will discuss tomorrow how this FAKE DEMOCRAT----KAMENETZ -----being far-right wing global banking 1% OLD WORLD KINGS -----is absolutely USING these once REAL LEFT SOCIAL PROGRESSIVE policies on helping low-income own and rent properties-------the goals here are to basically identify global corporate campuses and factories as the one's FORCED to take these SECTION 8 FUNDS.
KAMENETZ FORCING GLOBAL CORPORATIONS TO TAKE WHAT WAS ONCE FDR NEW DEAL public housing funds? YOU BETCHA.
Nothing says HOUSING DISCRIMINATION then these few decades of CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA---and MOVING FORWARD pretending these policies are FORCING BUSINESSES to take our US FEDERAL FUNDS.
All those SECTION 8 funds once going to individual working class homeowners trying to make ends meet---all those low-income RENTERS choosing where they might get rent subsidies---all MOVING FORWARD to being handed to GLOBAL CORPORATIONS.
it really was the only way many of our US working class homeowners could afford to own a home. It was the only way a low-income citizen could assure to stay HOUSING SECURE.
Baltimore County to consider bill forcing landlords to take Section 8
In suburban Baltimore County, county executive Kevin Kamenetz has introduced a bill to ban “housing voucher discrimination,” that is to say, a bill requiring landlords to take Section 8 tenants. “Kamenetz is required to introduce the bill as part of a housing discrimination settlement with the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development that was reached this year. … If [it] does not pass the County Council, the HUD settlement requires it to be reintroduced in future years.” Landlords and property owners say that it is unfair to force them to enroll against their will in a program with cumbersome paperwork and inspections. [Pamela Wood, Baltimore Sun] HUD is now arm-twisting jurisdictions nationwide into enacting these bad laws; earlier here (bad renter trashes unit), here, etc.
HOME Act draws mixed reaction at Baltimore County work session
A controversial bill making its way through the Baltimore County Council is focused on ending housing discrimination, but not everyone likes it.
The Housing Opportunity Made Equal Act would make it illegal for landlords to discriminate based on income source, including Section 8 housing vouchers. The bill is part of a mandate from the federal government.
"It prohibits landlords from engaging in discriminatory action based on source of income," said County Councilman Izzy Patoka, D-District 2.
The County Council held a public work session Tuesday and heard comments from dozens of people who came out to represent both sides of the issue.
Sharonda Ellerby said she experienced discrimination firsthand. She's a business owner now, but in the 1990s, she had a difficult time finding a home to rent using a voucher.
"They just always had the presumption that Section 8 is terrible people, welfare recipients who are going to tear up their property, and they just had no interest in it, and not everybody is that way," Ellerby said.
But not everybody is in favor of the bill. Ken Mazza is a landlord who objects to the bill.
"It has nothing to do with the individual. It's having the county tell me, or the government tell me, who I can and can't rent my property to," Mazza said. "You shouldn't be able to tell somebody that owns property who they have to rent to. That's a basic right we all have. I pay taxes here and I don't feel they should use my money for Section 8."
But Patoka said landlords can still deny renters based on things like credit, tenant history and criminal background.
"Whatever criteria the landlord uses in terms of credit, the landlord should, by all means, use that. What they can't do is discriminate on source of income," Patoka said.
Advocates said the bill is long overdue and will help many county residents.
'"It will help a great deal because you're talking about veterans, you're talking about seniors, you're talking about people with disabilities," said Paula Cuffie'.
"I hope the bill gets passed, and I hope it helps a lot of people that are really trying to use the voucher for the right reasons," Ellerby said.
The County Council is scheduled to vote on the bill Monday.
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