Homeless

[Nina]

    A lot of homeless people are mentally ill. A guy that I went to high school with has been struggling with depression and bipolar disorder. He lived in a comfortable home but walked away from it one night. His family frantically looked for him for weeks and just recently found him living on the streets. He refuses to come home.

I will usually give a homeless person money too if I am in a safe area. On the flip side, I never realized what a cluster fuck the Sect 8 program was until I took a new job a couple months ago. I work for a firm that buys/sells/rents foreclosures for investors (most of them from overseas). The preferred tenant is one with a Sect 8 voucher since that is guaranteed on-time rent. We will turn down a qualified employed applicant in favor of someone with a Sect 8 voucher in hand. I always pictured Sect 8 homes being dirty housing projects but we rent NICE homes to these folks. Some of the vouchers are $1000+. The more kids they have, the more the voucher is - so a lot of these people breed like rabbits and have 4 or more kids.

Luckily I work in the procurement and closing side so I don't have to deal with the tenants but I get to hear about it all the time. The Sect 8 tenants are the ones that bitch the most, hands down. They have this messed up sense of entitlement and I have to bite my tongue to keep from saying "it is FREE! Quit your bitching." A LOT of them are supposed to be single moms but have able-bodied men living there too. These people know how to work the system and it really pisses me off sometimes.

I don't know what the answer is because there really aren't jobs for these people but low income, uneducated people should not be rewarded for having more and more illegitimate children. They should be penalized for it.