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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ugh section 8 renters, amirite? It’s getting hard enough to find quality tenants when it’s illegal to screen by criminal history.

Section 8 people straight up tear up properties. I am serious. Look at all the nice new condos in Navy Yard and the issues the voucher folks have created. They just don’t respect the free housing they get.

https://www.vox.com/policy/355088/rent-tenants-cash-vouchers-housing[/quote]

DC has to stop providing benefits that are materially better than surrounding jurisdictions and mid-Atlantic cities.  People are actually coming to Washington for the generous vouchers.  And then local politicians have no clue why they spend so much money and the problem gets bigger. [/quote]

They need to gate the benefits by requiring minimum amount of residency before handing out a voucher or an apartment. Say, verifiable DC residency for 3 out of last 5 years. Or require a DC birth certificate. It’s galling that folks can come to DC, get benefits, then crowd out the natives. [/quote]

And come here for the purpose of accessing more lucrative benefits.  No wonder the number of people claiming to be ‘unhoused’ keeps increasing and yet higher levels of public funding don’t seem to make much of a dent.  DC is incentivizing people to move here for enhanced public support. [/quote]

Yes this is the problem with providing assistance to homeless people at the local level. It actually makes the problem worse because the generous benefits entice other homeless people to move there. [/quote]

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