(ThyBlackMan.com) When Section 8 was introduced in the 1930s to create more affordable housing, but it’s also becoming a detriment these days. You have people who have been on Section 8 for many years and have no intentions of getting off the program. What has it really done for people these days except have thousands of applicants on waiting lists that could be 3-5 years or more in length. Some people are getting their applications put through faster because they know family or friends who work for HUD and are getting over on the system by doing that where there’s people who waited years to get approved.
The black community has not benefitted from this government program because it’s cultivating dependency. You can tell how dependent black people are on this program when they start getting panicked when they’re dreading the government cutting them off. Section 8 was not designed to be permanent it was only designed to be temporary just like many other government-funded assistan
ce programs.
African-Americans in this country have gotten too comfortable on government assistance and then they get mad when it’s cut off. They get mad and angry saying it’s unfair for them to get cut off when it’s not the government’s responsibility to support people permanently. It’s unfair to tax payers who are burdened with the cost of paying for hoodrats and thugs to live in apartments and houses where they’re living better than regular people. The system itself has to change because there’s nothing sadder than seeing black people living for the moment and not thinking long term. You would think after five years you would have had your stuff together meaning you’ve gotten an education and moving towards a career not a job. Section 8 has not helped out much except to make those hood folks dependent on what working people are having to support.
We will make excuses as to why so and so is still on section 8, but refuses to get a job and/or going to school. Yet the system isnt moving fast enough to remove people who have been on there past 5 years so those who actually do need it can get help. There are people who have applied many times for section 8 assistance and have been rejected because some hood fool got approved and is allowed to stay on the program well past 5 years and yet HUD has not moved fast enough to remove people currently receiving section 8.
How did black people get to the point where they have to rely on government assistance to survive, but won’t do what it takes to better their lives. We will deny saying section 8 has not destroyed the community when you can look around where you live and see that section 8 housing is always without fail in some run down neighborhood and usually with absentee landlords and management companies that don’t monitor the properties too closely. Not to mention some of the section 8 recipients are figuring out how to duck and dodge HUD when they’re required to show something that they’re obtaining or working in progress of finding employment.
The amount of rent some of these folks are paying is unreal some pay nothing to as much as $50 a month for their portion when section 8 picks up the majority. Most of these people are in fact getting over on the system and those who are actually working towards something have a plan of getting off section 8 so they can begin to be self-reliant and not just staying because it’s free.
African-Americans have benefitted off section 8 as a temporary means to afford housing, but now as generations have come and gone seems it has groomed the next generation of blacks to be dependent on government assistance instead of going to school and getting into a stable job or career. It’s a sad reality that this has become the accepted form of lifestyle that the government has yet to shut down and revamp to where people are not going to be getting comfortable on free money when section 8 was not designed for people to remain on there for years and decades it was designed to temporarily help people with housing costs. You would think after 5 years you would have some footing in education and a job to be able to support yourself. Unfortunately, black people don’t see it that way they see it as it’s OK for tax payers to support their lack of motivation and drive to want to do better than to just live for little or nothing.
Staff Writer; Nafeesah Abdullah
