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Originally posted by Say_hello_for_me
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/22/ny...agewanted=2&hp
Section 8 vouchers in the NYC area will be for lower values this year, because the value is now calculated based on a number that includes surrounding suburbs.
Now, if somebody points out that some of the suburbs don't have any section 8, maybe lights will start going off. OTOH, maybe the light that goes off will be to only include the rents of those suburbs that do have section 8. Something tells me, including only the suburbs that have section would probably bring the average down even further for a place like NYC (as compared to including all suburbs).
Boy, this could break either way at any time.
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Housing is much cheaper in Cleveland and Alabama and Iowa and Vermont than it is in NYC. You don't have a fucking god given right to live in Manhattan. If you cannot afford to live there, then move. Plenty of places in this country have affordable housing.
eta: Remember when there were good jobs in the north and not so good jobs in the south? People fucking moved so that they could have a better quality of life. Same is true for housing. If you can't afford to live in NYC, then fucking move. If you are a minimum wage earner, there are jobs for you in other parts of the country that pay the same but have much lower housing costs. You should move there.
Then if unskilled labor was scarce in high cost of living areas, the simple laws of supply and demand would dictate that the employers would have to pay more for unskilled labor in those high housing cost areas. The solution is not to introduce a market failure by having the government subsidize the employers. That is what section 8 housing is - a subsidy for employers.
People need to move where they can afford to live.
