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Originally posted by Say_hello_for_me
Everybody would be diminished slightly, if at all. That's the whole point of breaking up the concentration. As for the landlord's action, if its in your building, how does the landlord rent to someone else and yet affect your property value. If its the building next door, is your property value diminshed when the lottery winner (ex section 8) moves in?
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It would be more than you think. If the person that owns the unit next door to me rented it out to anybody, I would be concerned. If it was rented out to voucher recipients, I would not have purchased my place in retrospect. This is just the nature of the beast. People by in the neighborhoods they do for many reasons, but one of which is how safe their investment is. The acceptance of vouchers next door or even in the building next door has an affect on that equation.
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I believe that your post implicitly acknowledges an objection to the existing section 8 mandate (if I'm correct) that a landlord who accepts 1 must accept any others. What protectable interest does a landlord have in refusing to rent to someone based on section 8? If there is any legitimate reason (criminal background) etc., that's one thing. And if the recipients need to be evicted, the local laws should apply. But if you put out an ad in Lake Forest asking for $8000 to rent a mansion, and I show up with my 8 kids and a voucher statement (verifiable by one call to a federal agency), good for $8000 on a renewable annual lease, than what exactly is your protectable interest in refusing me?
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For me its an environment thing. If I wanted to live in that type of environment, I would have paid a whole lot less than I actually did. But I leveraged myself and bought "up" to get protection on the value of my investment. And you seem to think that the effect neighbors have on the neighborhood only goes 1 way - i.e., that the minority (not in a racial sense) will acclimate to the culture of the majority (again, not racial). However this is not always the case.
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And really, you take away the ability to refuse people based on section 8 status (the tradeoff being that you can only accept 1 in the 200 unit building), than pretty much what you are really facing is a whole bunch of people who just don't want to rent to poor minorities. Lord knows we see that often enough even outside the section 8 context to know it exists.
Who gets harmed again?
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My objections are not in anyway based on race. They are based on class.
