In this Feb. 20, 2019 photo, Destiny Johnson shows the broken door to her oven that she uses string to hold together, in her apartment in Cedarhurst Homes, a federally subsidized, low-income apartment complex in Natchez, Miss. The complex failed a health and safety inspection in each of the past three years. Upset with conditions, Johnson moved out in late March.
Inspectors had cited the apartment complex with urgent health and safety violations for the past three years. Yet the federal government continued to pay Johnson’s rent at a property where a three-bedroom unit like hers can run $900 a month. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development subsidizes rents for tenants assigned to both privately owned apartments and public housing run by state or local authorities. Many in these 2.1 million households are disabled, elderly or single parents. As the nation’s biggest affordable housing provider, the federal government will spend about $18 billion this year for these two programs.
“These older properties,” Housing and Urban Development spokesman Brian Sullivan said, “the private owners may not have the means to do needed repairs.” In late March, she said, management finally provided a letter that let her move to a nearby subsidized complex with a better inspection record.A former neighbor who still lives at the 30-unit Cedarhurst Homes, Whitley Williams, wanted to show a reporter and photographer her leaking water heater. The door to its closet was damp and swollen. She tried to heave it open, but the bottom scraped the floor and broke apart.
Housing experts say landlords in poor, rural communities with low rents can have trouble amassing cash for repairs, despite federal payments. And tenants in some buildings still complain that management hides problems from inspectors, covering cracks with duct tape, mold with a quick coat of paint, or even old junk with temporary partitions.
HUD’s main programs now rely on the existing, gradually aging housing stock. “We lose the affordable housing forever. You never get it back,” HUD spokesman Sullivan said. Many housing advocates want more vouchers and incentives for private landlords to accept them. Others suggest increasing tax credits for construction and repairs, more federal staff and resources for better oversight, and more tenant participation in site improvements.
BeBraveMyLoves Then find yourself a job instead of being pregnant all the time, maybe?
Just wait to see what happens when thousands more illegals arrive. Pelosi isn’t putting them up. Only the poor will suffer. They will live in public housing at taxpayer expense. Unintentionalconsequence
If you try to take care of it instead of trashing it , it's up to you
Borrow a mop, buy cleaning products and scatter Blue Death powder everywhere/in places where the roaches are. And keep the place clean. It is really simple and not expensive. Roaches are only that bad in really dirty places.
Stop having kids if you cannot afford them!!
More gloriacswain
THEN GET A JOB
Many American veterans are homeless. America don't need demand mentality.
It's crazy how so many of you responding to this post are mad at this woman for having kids and needing government assistance, but you're not mad at the slumlords who are bilking the government and being slumlords.
After reading this article the issues go beyond cleanliness. Some residences are not up to code electrically and structurally speaking. Please try and have some compassion for single parents that are struggling to get by. Everyone has the right to a certain quality of life.
She's 21, not married & has 3 children under the age of 6...how about taking some personal responsibility for her shitty life choices instead of complaining that her free apartment isnt nice. Should the government pay for a maid too? Cause she clearly isn't doing any housekeeping
If you all don’t like anyone getting public assistance, make companies pay a living wage. They’ll scream that prices will go up, but for the large companies, they can raise wages and just not have as high a profit margin (ie Walmart). They won’t do this out of greed.
The local governments syphon all the money to their cronies. And guess who runs the local cities with fed housing? The dems keep voting them in if you like where your living
I’m not speaking for these people, but in my experience 75% of people in poor neighborhoods trash their house & don’t take care of what’s there. Not to say that much of what is there wasn’t already in bad shape, but they usually treat everything w/ equal carelessness regardless.
Maybe if she’d stop having kids she can’t afford she wouldn’t have to live in low income housing. I can see making one mistake but three? Good lord woman, get a grip!
Damn How low is the bar if you can’t ask for the best
you didnt mention usda housing. its even worse. I had black mold behind my toilet and ended up on oxygen in my last place. I am getting well in a nursing home when I lived in moberly mo i did ok but paquin towers in columbia mo made me really sick. like debilitatingly sick
The government cannot do anything right, especially when it involves services for others. Why would anyone expect them to run housing developments any less than awful?
“Don’t have so many kids if you can’t afford them” is a racist trope. Conservative legislators CLOSE ABORTION CLINICS. Poor folks can’t always get to one 50+ miles away and we’ve instilled such a “life begins at conception” disinformation. Shame on all you.
Most of this appears to stem from the tenants lack of responsibility of cleaning her home.
Im not either. FIXED HVAC heat source producing output above 70 degrees in winter/ at night. Units that dont catch fire - then I take heat for having ANY credit lines open. Viable AC in the summer. ITS A BIG DEAL. AND ITS A PROBLEM!
TaxTheRich Bernie2020 everyone deserves a life of dignity and we can afford it in the richest country EVER. We must end the brutal cycle of poverty and educate and provide healthcare and jobs TO ANY AMERICAN WHO WANTS IT. Ffs how do you “pick yourself up” on $7.25/hr? Can’t.
What do they want? A housekeeper? Damn.
so is this woman unable to work? What is going on here? she wants the government to pay for her poor decisions to have unprotected sex 3 times? I did it twice and never expected Uncle Sam to cover for it!
Why does our government want people with nothing to have less than that?
She has a roof over her head courtesy of the taxpayer. She should be thanking her lucky stars. I don’t get housing 😑 You want more? Gotta get off the federal tit and start climbing the ladder. Sorry. I’m Latino btw, and we are just as guilty of this so don’t play the racism card
Some Spic n Span will do the trick! Or some Mr. Clean.
surprised?
You gave me some, now give me more.
Jobs usually help, so does soap. Only people with severe disabilities should stay on welfare for longer than a few months.
And how EXACTLY would socialism fix those '....sharing government-funded apartment with her three small children...' demanding MORE, MORE, MORE? She is living a socialist lifestyle now, obviously not in bread lines.
What Obama’s administration did was disgusting
painter_nancy This picture was an invitation for White people to get on here and rant about personal responsibility. And y’all did not disappoint.
The cleaning of an apartment is the tenant's responsibility.
Some of these comments are the worst. People who rely on subsidized housing pay rent. HUDgov is mandated to ensure the housing is safe
My friends are everywhere government housing poor. Only to prevent street sleep not intend live entire life. must work hard study alway not have childs cannot afford
Get a job plenty out there
Step 1) Don't have kids you can't afford.
Govt can not afford the ever extending control without borrowing to debt default bankruptcy of all the ppl
100,000 new Americans a month walking across the southern border is not a crisis. It's a housing boom.
Instead of getting a shitty chest tattoo maybe you should use your extra money on some comet or fantastic
Clean your apartment more often instead of allowing it to become filth. Or is the gov’t suppose to buy your cleaning products too. I have no sympathy for people that live like this when they given housing. They don’t clean it for you too after paying for it
Get a hysterectomy (yes we will pay for that!) and then get a job.
Housing, healthcare, groceries, cell phones, transportation, schooling...How much more of my check can make you comfortable?
He was a surgeon but got a huge job over HOUSING? Something wrong with that picture.
What the hell is Ben Carson doing ? Is he still ordering furniture. I haven’t seen him anywhere since he took office. Does he have a voice in the WH ? On the first place I don’t see how he got the job.
Guess she does not know how to sweep a floor!
Its literally mind boggling to me the mentality of people these days. As if its someone else responsibility to provide for you and yours. 'Im not asking for the best but something better than this' FROM WHO?! Why in the world do you deserve ANYTHING?! Facepalm ThisIsInsanity
If we made the decision as a society to offer these benefits, then we have a responsibility to ensure that they are administered humanely. The way public housing is maintained is not humane AP Federal Housing Welfare Clean USA
This is what happens when you rely on Government to take care of you.
I feel sad for that poor child
taxpayers be doin racism on me
Trump only looks after millionaires.
If she put down the twinkies long enough to actually clean her apartment, it wouldn't be so bad 🤷🏻♂️
I feel bad that you laid in bed with a deadbeat...
Wonder if Illegal Immigrants have anything to do with the loss of Funding? MAGA
On the fence here. Can’t afford an apartment, don’t have kids. Ugh 🤔
It’s not the job of government to pay for your housing
Try this.
Section 8?
Get a job. Free stuff is never good
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