Reply #38: If you did all those fix-it things in a Section 8, you would be evicted! [View All]

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You're not allowed to improve Section 8 apartments.

Really.

You know, I'm not so sure that it's bad for young couples to spend a year or two in run-down apartments. Having some real-life experience with what others live with isn't always bad. Especially professional people---adding some reality to those they may later be dealing with.

What would be really bad is if it endangered your health, which so many Section 8 apartments do, and there is NO way to get that to change. Nor is there any recourse for abuse that takes place. I know....I witnessed an assistant manager physically abusing an elderly woman, and there was NOTHING that could be done. As the one compassionate person I found said, "He's an equal opportunity abuser, and there's nothing that can be done. If he was abusing one group and not another, we could get him then."

You wouldn't be able to insist a Section 8 landlord replace a peed-on carpet. There is just NO recourse!

"It disgusts me that we can't fix this, that we choose not to fix this."

Yes, that's why I'm so very upset with "liberals". They COULD, but it isn't important. I can't even get people to commit a few minutes to the Housing Trust Fund issue! :cry:

I'm one of those with no family. Believe me, with *anything* -- doctors, legal issues, anything at all, without family, you are nobody and dismissed.