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Really - no one?  Work under the table selling prescription pills, weed, selling stolen loot out of their car, lawn care, babysitting, etc..  If there is no documentation of work, they are considered unemployed.  You can make as much money as you want under the table and still get assisted housing, stamps, and more.  [b]Most new developments have to set aside about 10-15% low income housing. [/b] The apartments are very nice.  Stripped of all the upgrades yes, but still new.  [/quote]

That's in Montgomery County -- it's a county program. It's the Moderately-Priced Dwelling Unit (MPDU) program. If you're poor, you don't qualify for it.

https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/DHCA/housing/singlefamily/mpdu/programsales.html#Are you Eligible?

And again -- I'm putting it in all caps to stand out -- MOST POOR FAMILIES DO NOT GET HOUSING ASSISTANCE.

Now, if the argument is that it's possible to have undeclared income -- well, that goes for everybody, doesn't it? Rich, middle-class, and poor. I've paid plenty of middle-class people in cash. I haven't asked whether they declare the income.

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You need to expand your horizons.

In Alexandria City, we have plenty of public housing. Not Section 8 but actual public housing.  
We also have Section 8.

Arlington Co has affordable housing.  Fairfax Co does as well.

Statistically speaking, the report may be accurate that many poor families do not get the housing assistance for themselves but very often they live with someone who does.  Grandma has a housing voucher, and she has a couple of her kids and their kids living with her.  Doesn't matter that it is a 1 BR or maybe if they are a luck a 2BR and doesn't matter if it violates the rules.  It happens all the time.

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The data about housing assistance applies to households, not individuals. [b]Plus the argument was that girls have babies and then get free housing [/b]-- so Grandma, two kids, and their kids in a one-bedroom apartment wouldn't be relevant anyway.

But if you want to disregard the data, ok.

You can look up the comparable data for Virginia, or disregard it too.[/quote]

That is not the argument being made.  I was pointing out that girls living in poverty who are on the cusp of young adulthood face choices that in my upper middle class lifestyle I nor my children will ever have to consider.

These young women are going to be expected to get a job to help start supporting whatever family they are living with. That part time job at Burger King is expected to pay household expenses.  That's way different than my child getting a retail job where the money he/she earns would go towards whatever my kid wanted.

When they are looking at adulthood and choices, how do they afford an apartment on min wage? How do they afford to feed themselves?

It's not about getting free housing, it's about having to make choices that will give them basic needs.  Can you imagine how scary it must be to realize that you are almost 18, your parents are pretty much saying you need to get out and support yourself, you have no idea how to do that or what it entails so you looks around to your friends and they start telling you how they did it and  you suddenly see a way out of your predicament.
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Not to mention, that many of these girls are molested and sexualized early on. It is a sad, sad circumstance.[/quote]

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