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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This will backfire.  The main benefit of Section 8 is that rental payment is guaranteed and reliable.

It does have policy downsides, because it effectively increases average rent, so it's complicated.  But the bottom line is that a landlord would be less likely to rent to a Section 8 receipient if responsibility for payment switched from the government to the individual.

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Isn't the point of this whole thing that the landlord would have no idea the renter is getting a voucher since they are paying in cash? So the renter would have more housing options but it would also be easier for landlords to evict should they not pay. [/quote]

What makes any normal person believe that the all the cash issued from HUD would even go to housing?   that is nutts. So instead of a $3k voucher, you get $3k deposited into you bank account instead. Give this much cash to people who hsitorically have no experience in money management (EBT, AFDC, vouchers, grew up in poverty, never had a bank account or bad credit) and it almost always spent on things that provide immediate gratificaiton-shoes, clothes,  eating out,  phones, drugs, booze, or worse, women giving the money to dead beat boyfriends.   [/quote]

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