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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What will happen, if this ever comes into existence (which is doubtful) is what happened with DC's GOP-forced voucher program. A handful of very talented poor children will be able to use the scholarship to get into existing schools, where the schools will be able to give them financial aid to make up the difference.

At the same time, dozens of "schools" will open, that happen to charge the same amount or slightly higher in tuition as the cost of the voucher. There is no accredation process in DC for these schools, and many of them have 90-100% of their students on vouchers. Making them essentially public schools with no oversight. It's a travesty...school vouchers do not work- studies have proven this.[/quote]

They are the same as housing vouchers.  Any landlord who magically accepts vouchers, sets the rent at the highest level of the voucher range even though the landlord could not get that higher amount if it were market rate housing.  Don't tell anyone though, because I've made a lot of money doing this.[/quote]

Great, you're proud of cheating the federal government out of money.  If you charge above the market rate, you are in violation of Federal law.[/quote]

Oh dear, you must have gone to one of those low performing schools.  Please have someone read my comments that says:  "at the highest level of the voucher range."  I have a 5 bedroom house that I rented for years to a Section 8 family at $3,500 per year.  When they received a voucher the range for a five bedroom house was $3,200 to $3,390 per year.   
I charge them $3,390 per year, which is $110 per month less than I was receiving when they were pure Section 8.     Would you charge them $3,200 or $3,390 for a house that they had rented for $3,500 per month?   Explain how that is violation of Federal law or how I am cheating the government?

thank you[/quote]

Vouchers are part of section 8.  You write as though you don't even know this.

In your original post, you claim that people are charging above market rate for the units for which they receive voucher payments.  You then said you have been doing this for years.

In your subsequent post, you justified your current non-market rate based on an older non-market rate that you previously charged the government under what you called "pure section 8".

But you are not allowed to charge a rate higher than the market rate for comparable unassisted units in the area. If you know you are doing so, you are breaking the law.  Maybe you won't get caught because the housing authority isn't good at its job.  But it is not legal.[/quote]

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