Super-vouchers Ending
- Chicago Housing Authority voucher recipients will no longer receive enough assistance to place them in the city's most luxurious high-rise buildings under a new policy, the agency announced Sunday.
The policy targets "super vouchers" that allow low-income recipients to receive up to 300 percent of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's Fair Market Rent, which for the Chicago area is $826 for a one-bedroom apartment. The new limit will be 150 percent, according to the release.
[...]The new policy will affect about 260 families, the CHA said, and all of them will have a least one year to move.
Crain's Chicago Business had this original story. Well done exposing this corrupt use of tax dollars. Now if only the rest of the media would pitch in. Crain's and The Reader can't carry it all.
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posted by SCC at 12:01 AM
47 Comments:
This made no since. They could help more families by giving out less.
Would love to see a list of names and their connections.
FU Obama and the Socialist/Democratic party for allowing this.
I wonder how much money we'll waste during the next yr.
Of course you know what this means...
Sergio Banks will have to build more "Luxury Condos" in our neighborhoods to house these consume only/contribute nothing burdens on our economy.
Rahm has to stash all those illegal kids ya' know.
Somewhere, as the deluxe apartments in the sky go bye-bye, George and Wheezie Jefferson are weeping.
Piece o' da pie 'boutsta get a whole lot smaller.
No one is stopping these people from living there, just pay for it with their own money.
When I read that story about the super voucher I was livid! What the hell did I get educate for to get a job to live in a nice neighborhood? I grew up poor in the hood in another state, but my parents demanded better of me. Section 8 for $2K rent a month is outrageous! I pay 1550 a month to live in the loop. Why the hell should people who could never afford that be subsidized. BULLSHIT!
They moved quick become someone is nervous. Follow the money, here is where the money can be made; I would like to see a full investigation and FOIA's for:
#1 - Renters - Someone is getting free money for rent that should not be or is connected?
#2 - Who owns the individual units being leased out in these buildings? Either you have these connected unit owners who bought these places when the market was tough that were able to get on the CHA list for homes available, (now using govt section 8 renters to rescue their investment by renting it out...)
#3 - who are the real estate agents who get a cut of he rental finders fee?
#4 - Who are the developers or investors in these buildings (possibly the guys who aren't on the development zoning PD disclosure because the just happen to have less than 14.5% of the development....)
#5 - Banks/Lenders - Let's see who are the banks or investors that are holding the note on these high priced units that stand to make out or save their ass because they have Govt. backed renters
So the "well to do" residents of high rise buildings don't like the hood rats in their midst. That is what real money buys: the right to change Federal policy to get rid of the undesirables. Yet us in the middle class hoods have to put up with all the Section 8 bull shit that "these" people bring.
So many people were upset by this scandal. I thank Congressman Aaron Schock for going after this waste and abuse of taxpayer money.
The question is, did HUD get their orders to issue these supervouchers from the white house?? You know, to force "diversity" ?
How racist. You mean they expect these people to get jobs and actually pay their own way?
You Shitcago taxpayers are so generous. Almost makes me want to move back. HAHAHAHAHAHA.
Crain's and the Reader will have to carry it all. The Trib and the Sun-Times won't.
Now, kees me you fool!!!!
They will have "AT LEAST" a year to move. So can they take FIVE, TEN YEARS to finally move? Please tell me that's a typo and they have UP TO a year to move or it's still a huge waste of my tax dollars/ scam and I'm still pissed off about it.
What about social equality? This is wrong.
Good.
Now move these cocksuckers up to Winnetka to spread some motherfuckin' diversity!
No 2300 hundred got the high rent payment time to stop this bull shit free is all they think about
Yes they really passed a hard law to correct this. Now the limit is 150% of the prevailing rent rate. Why is it any more than 100%? No wonder so many landlords are taking section 8 now.
Somebody has to audit their books. Wasteful spending should be cut, and people fired.
What purpose does CHA provide?
All the projects have been torn down and their residents are scattered all over the country!
Time to abolish CHA and send that money to the city pension funds!
You do realize the Reader is now owned by the Sun Times, right?
This has been going on since the late 80s. All those high-rise apartment buildings that went up along the north bank of the river east of Michigan Ave and in River North were put up by developers who got extremely low interest loans in return for setting aside 20% of the units in their building as "affordable housing". All these places were taking in Section 8 residents and placing them next door to market value paying renters. Some building managers tried to scam the system by not using the full 20% (Presidential Towers for one), but got caught and were forced to abide by the rules. The agreement was to keep the "affordable housing" in place for 20 years. I thought all that shit would've been over by now, but it don't look that way. I remember one building in particular (in the 400 block of east Ohio) that had a real bad problem with the Section 8 clients that had been sent there. The building management changed directors and the new director got the police involved to clean out the dope dealing and all day partying. None of the people who were actually paying market rates could enjoy the amenities offered by the building until the crap got tossed out. The Metropolitan Leadership Council, which handed out the Section 8 vouchers, was told to clean up their act as far as their selection of clients.
Ok so the views won't be the same, but they still living of our dime
It's less about the occupants and more about the breaks the developer gets and the rent the unit owners collect - follow the money.
"They moved quick become someone is nervous."
8/18/2014 04:15:00 AM
You got that right. I've never seen such fast footwork. Under the rug with it all, NOW!
"Some building owners are happy for the business. Justin Elliott, principal at Chicago-based Marc Realty Residential, has few complaints after the CHA approved supervouchers for 36 leases this year and last in a 96-unit building Marc owned at 2300 S. Michigan Ave.
“All in all, we viewed this as a very positive experience,” Mr. Elliott says.
Yeah, you would. All the way to the bank...
http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20140726/ISSUE01/307269984/poor-families-use-supervouchers-to-rent-in-citys-priciest-buildings
36 units out of 96! Looks like taxpayers picked up the tab for the unsalable luxury condo units (now switched to still-unaffordable "rentals") that were built like crazy during the bubble...
Ordinary people can't even get onto the waiting list. It's done through a lottery -- and I think the last one was in 2008 or something. Look fast, too. By the time you hear about the lottery, you got about three minutes left to get the paper in...
A year to move out? Three months TOPS. Livid is an understatement to describe this mess.
--No Cop Here
What's the sense being a contribution to society if u get everything practically free, if u know how 2 play the game? Free phone/ minutes, section 8, link, wic, and a whole lot of police presence..
I agree to and with all that is stated above. This is some Chicago fuckery at it's finest. The only other glaring example is what our own elected (not for much longer) officials do to make life difficult for the first responders of our city.
What the hell did I get educate for to get a job to live in a nice neighborhood?
8/18/2014 03:39:00 AM
I've got bad news for you. You're not very educated.
Glad these rats are getting out. Before the leave, they will have destroyed the units, deficated in the pool and stolen property from their neighbors' units and common areas.
super vouchers for sure.....
my god, 2k a month
there is a major scam going on here
Oh yeah...
You betchoass m/fers are nervous!
THIS is one of those money-makers only for those
of the inner party.
Somebody cut somebody else out of the money loop/got greedy/ didn't submit the usual tithe of corruption...
Or some motherfucker forgot to close the door and some unwashed churl got a peek at the fuckery.
Pay no attention to these assholes in on the bad joke of stealing from the middle class taxpayer with both hands...
Hanging them would be a soothing balm.
I got a "Super Voucher" coupon at Subway good for 50¢ off my next purchase. (Participating stores only after 4pm, not valid weekends and holidays, discount applies to regulary priced menu items and cannot be used in conjunction with another offer. Only one item per cutomer order and one voucher per customer per visit. Not vaild for Super Value Menu items or Disney® branded items. Excludes Premium Subs. Void where prohibited, not valid in Alaska, Hawaii or U.S. Territories. Original coupon must be presented before ordering, duplicates will not be honored, store visit required. Taxes applicable. Cash value 1/100th of one cent.)
— Too many rules for a 50¢ coupon. It's easier to get public housing.
Thanks Jared.
Thanks Obama.
Anonymous said...
"They moved quick become someone is nervous."
8/18/2014 04:15:00 AM
You got that right. I've never seen such fast footwork. Under the rug with it all, NOW!
"Some building owners are happy for the business. Justin Elliott, principal at Chicago-based Marc Realty Residential, has few complaints after the CHA approved supervouchers for 36 leases this year and last in a 96-unit building Marc owned at 2300 S. Michigan Ave.
“All in all, we viewed this as a very positive experience,” Mr. Elliott says.
Yeah, you would. All the way to the bank...
http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20140726/ISSUE01/307269984/poor-families-use-supervouchers-to-rent-in-citys-priciest-buildings
36 units out of 96! Looks like taxpayers picked up the tab for the unsalable luxury condo units (now switched to still-unaffordable "rentals") that were built like crazy during the bubble...
8/18/2014 11:10:00 AM
Ohhhhhh Yeah!
The Housing Bubble...
Where so much of our pension money was stolen by
Daley Inc. for investure in "sure thing" hot right now real estate...
"An' if da whole t'ing falls in, youz guyz still make money... Fuck them coppers..."
...Or something like that?
Oh yeah... These dirty m/fers moved QUICK to kick this turd under the sofa in hope that nobody NOT in the Inner Party Rolodex of Evil got a glimpse of what's going on...
Sure bet that both Chicago rags have a laundered/edited version of this story hidden behind the Rahm al Ghoul ordered pay wall.
"All the news that's fit to 'register' for so we know who's trying to connect the dots."
Fuck all y'all all up in y'all asses...
Public hanging is too good a punishment...
$2000 x 260 families x 12 months = 6.24 million dollars a year for people that do not deserve to live that high up without earning it.
Let them stay.
Where are they going?
Mt Greenwood, Garfield Ridge?
Fuck that!
Let them stay in Streeterville. They should play in Jane's new park. Shop on Mich Ave.
Demon-craps. They are people/folks just like you.
They should live with YOU!
What's the problem?
They didn't earn it?
Supplement them with YOUR money.
It is the LEFT thing to do!
What's worse are the Chicago and Cook County laws that force landlords to take section 8 renters and then go through all the government bullshit for no additional compensation.
The best suggestion I heard was make sure the place failed the section 8 inspection.
This like all government wealth transfer is something a wide variety of players can exploit.
Those responsible said they just wanted to give these poor people a choice. I have a choice for you, how about choose to work and get off my mutha fucken paycheck!!
$3000 for downtown maybe over but you can get a home with a yard in Garfield ridge now for $2000 not as super voucher. That neighborhood is done!
Bring back the projects!
Hey you want to be accepted as an equal and not a savage drain on society. Then you need to be treated equal across the board. Act normal, dress normal, don't emulate and glorify the thug life. If not quit your bitching and rioting.
They're in my building in 18.
Baby momma with three kids wins the Sec. 8 voucher lotto and her name is put on the lease.
Then baby daddy, his brother and his brother's side bitch are put on with the building mgt/doormen as all-access visitors (I've taken a little liberty with adding the brother for effect).
Now all of them are living in a STUDIO apt in my building.
There are one or two other Sec. 8's in the building also living in over occupied units.
Where deserved, I don't mind people getting a hand up.
But since the downturn in my business in '08, I've been eating soup and peanut butter sandwiches to make ends meet.
Through unemployment compensation and other taxes my business & I pay, I'm paying for section 8's to live in my building, where rents run from $1,300 to $3,000/month and units sell for between $145K & $220K, with property taxes around $3,500/yr. and going up.
With the number of bank owned properties, foreclosures and properties not selling and owners turning the properties in to rentals, still out there, taxpayers should not be footing the bill for people getting public assistance to live in $1,300+/month apartments in Streeterville and the gov't paying the owners with vouchers that pay -- more -- then the market rent because they are renting to sections 8's.
I won't even get in to the shitbird friend element brought in and out of the building and common area like the pool & patio area.
To the poster who stated something to the effect Streeterville residents deserve it for voting for Obama & Rahm...I've never voted for a Chicago Democrat in any election I've voted in since 1975.
-Citizen
So where should poor people live?
A very small percentage of folks have super vouchers. Maybe if we had great neighborhood amenities and schools in ALL community areas then it wouldn't matter where folks were placed with their vouchers.
So where should poor people live?
A very small percentage of folks have super vouchers. Maybe if we had great neighborhood amenities and schools in ALL community areas then it wouldn't matter where folks were placed with their vouchers.
8/19/2014 03:11:00 PM
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A start might be, put them to work converting the schools closed in to apartments and they can live somewhere where they have some skin in the game as opposed to spending $50 million dollars on a park and tens of millions more in these super vouchers.
Again, I am not opposed to giving people a hand up.
In the late 50's my mother raised three boys one of which is mentally challenged, as a single parent.
There was nothing like the welfare there is today.
I wished that I lived in the same paper doll world lugalia lives in.
Not everybody belongs everywhere. I wonder if lugalia has a pretty loft.
Now, kees me you fool!!!!
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