Dude, there are families that have two and three generations living in the New Orleans projects. They were talking to some of them on wwl just the other day that called in. There are people in the system where their mothers, grandmothers and great grandmothers were all welfare queens. I'm not talking only about blacks. There are plenty of white people who generation after generation live on some type of government help. I have a guy that I work with that won't marry his girlfriend of ten years because his kids are on the medical card ( so he doesn't have to pay med. INS out of his check for them) , his girlfriend gets food stamps and makes a killing on three kids at the end of the year. He learned how to scam the system from his mom.
In low rent housing, yes. Few folks can afford urban rentals on minimum wage or social security. Not since the Clinton welfare reforms in the 1990's. Only three years of welfare, they have to have dependent children, and they have to take employment classes and seek work. Then turn him in, he's a criminal.
those people always annoy me. move to the suburbs if you cant afford the rent. there are apartments available way out in rego park. you dont have to live in manhattan, or even astoria, negroes. buy a motorcycle or a metrocard.
Who is going to serve you latte or make you a Big Mac if minimum wage workers can't get rent-controlled housing in NYC?
apartments are cheap in places like jamaica and canarsie and whatever is way up there in the bronx at the final stop of the 4 train. not everyone has to live in manhattan or even williamsburg or astoria.
They are still rent-controlled in the Bronx. Manhattan and all major cities must have affordable housing available for low-paid workers or it adversely affects the economy.
i dont have the time right now to dispute this, but suffice to say that you a re dreadfully dreadfully wrong and rent control is tremendously destructive to a community.
