re: #309 lostlakehiker

So what you’re saying is that section 8 housing, and other welfare housing, doesn’t actually deliver AC? I can believe it. That makes my point, though. Money being spent in the name of the poor isn’t getting the results that were contracted for.

Poor people who rent outside the welfare system, including the near poor, stand a real chance of getting what they pay for. If the AC breaks, odds are the landlord gets it fixed within a couple of days. The invisible hand sees to that.

Have you ever been poor? Your views chafe me worse than sandpaper-based bike shorts probably would. there is not a magical dividing line of quality between section 8 housing and “outside the welfare system” housing that poor people can afford.