A bill that would require landlords to accept tenants through the federal Section 8 program sparked a debate about civil rights on the Senate floor Tuesday.
The bill, SB487, is intended to prevent landlords from rejecting tenants that receive public assistance simply because they are poor. But critics of the legislation said that it would force landlords to participate in social welfare programs and make them do business with housing authorities that send rent checks late and refuse to pay market rates.
Baltimore County Democrat James Brochin said that a landlord from his district was owed over $36,000 in back rent from county housing authorities. He claimed that such stories were legion throughout the state.
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Not only does the Government make late payments and under value payments, they are not around to clean up the filth and destruction left by the animals they forced you to rent to.
This is fairness? Equality? Tolerance?
SHOVE IT OMALLEY!
GUESS WHAT PEOPLE?? This will happen here in good old Salisbury under Ireton/Day. Get Ready because if you vote for them, this is what Day will do. Call his realtor buddies, and swoop on your property give you nothing for it and leaving destruction behind.
At least Druid Hill Ave. won't have to look at the units.
The river is gone and so is the land if you vote for this pack of liars.
Day discredits honest military people who wear the uniform proudly. Day dishonors the uniform and the code of ethics. So don't trade on your military background because you have no prinicpals nor do his supporters.
Another program at the State and Federal level that should be eliminated completely.
I have seen too many places like this with a Cadillac or Mercedes parked out front...if the boyfriend/baby-daddy has that kind of money - pay the rent!
If the government pays me 6 months rent upfront i will rent my house to these people until then SCREW YOU.
LOOK AT THE CHANCES THE MAYOR PASSED UP, WE COULD HAVE HAD THE NEW SU APARTMENTS DOWNTOWN IF THE MAYOR HAD ANY PLAN FOR DOWNTOWN BUT HE didn't.
There are ways around that. We lived in a state that required landlords to accept section 8. So our landlord didn't remove any of the lead paint...voila can't be rented for section 8, and couldn't be rented to people with kids. Two birds one stone.
A prior story talked about GIVING a kid a car and watch it deteriorate into trash. I contend the same thing happens with "affordable" housing. And please stop calling them "affordable" housing. THAT'S what me and millions of other people with a job have....Here's the cycle that Ireton doesn't seem to know --- beautiful new apartment complexes are built but the Federal government makes the owners set aside a portion of them for welfare mothers with 4 kids and no desire for a job. THEY pay $14-60 a month. You and I must pay $1500-2000 for the same apartment. Soon, you and I get tired of the noise, the trash, the parties, the car break-ins, and the domestic violence. We move. The owners, over a period of time, lose most of the PAYING tenants and the complex becomes another welfare ghetto. And Ireton wants to let this happen to the most valuable real estate in the city? BRILLIANT!! I have NO problem with the so-called "safety net". But when people who have fallen into the "safety net" start driving better cars than I have, wearing better clothes and jewelry than me, and living in better apartments than those WORKING for a living, I get a little, um ,uh,...reactionary.. and angry. Something is seriously wrong with that picture...
Pemberton Manor was a nice place tennis courts swimming pool. Now look at the dump now. It doesn't take long for a complex to get ruined. If you want to see what section 8 go to booth street housing. These people are getting all this free stuff from the tax payers and can't even take care of it.
If a person owns a piece of property, they should be entitled to choose to whom they do and do not rent.
7:25pm it will get much worse, more quickly if Ireton/Day get elected. Vote Albero/Campbell to save the city.
Yeah AFFORDABLE housing,Now that's a joke, 7 kids in a 4 bdrm home paying $100/300 a month GUESS who picks up the remainder of that ck ME/YOU, STOP having multiple kids just so you can get more FOOD stamp money which you trade half for CASH, Get your damn tubes tied and clip the father too.
Sara SU - Rumor has it those units are going to be the SU apartments or nurse dorms for a med school or something like that, all owned by Palmer Gillis. Notice he is on the cover of that local magazine this week. But is that what is needed downtown, more housing? There's enough empty housing to house a small town.
Sounds like Barrie Tilghman has found her new Mike Dunn in Jake Day and a new Dream Team in him, Laura Mitchell and Shanie Shields. All friends of SAPOA and the developers.
Why when you can do it?
Where is all this happening?
Sounds like the same bait and switch Tom Ruark and Mike Dunn pulled getting water and sewer annexation because the housing was for "seniors". If the parking lot housing is for SU nursing school why not disclose that?
We really do need to stop with the political correctness and start calling a spade a spade. Affordable housing means tax payer subsidized housing.
Also the facts speak for themselves. An overwhelming majority of this type of housing becomes a cess pool of crime and filth in short order. What happened to those high rise low income housing buildings in Baltimore is repulsive.
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