"Harsh Truth" <harshtruth2@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> I'm a new middle-class homeowner and I would like to share with all of
> you my personal feelings about Section 8 housing in general.
>
> I lived in an apartment complex in Phoenix, Arizona for seven years.
> The first five years was fine, but for the entire final two years I
> lived there, the complex participated in the Section 8 housing program.
> A black person moved below me. I never had a black neighbor before
> and never had problems with neighbors before. Yet, he was the first
> neighbor to give me problems. One day, he came upstairs to knock on my
> door to complain that his ceiling squeaked everytime I walked. He said
> he complained about this to the apartment management but they told him
> there was nothing they could do for him. I asked him what he wanted me
> to do about it, he was never specific except to say that he goes to bed
> at a certain time and I guess he wanted me to stop walking in my
> apartment when it's time for him to go to bed. Yeah, right! I told
> him that I'm sorry about his predicament, but that his squeaking
> ceiling was beyond my control and that I had no problems with the
> previous tenant who lived there for four years before he moved in.
>
> Six months later, I came out of my apartment to go out. He was coming
> home at the same time. When we crossed paths, he just verbally lashed
> out at me and said tons of horrible things about me being inconsiderate
> towards him with sarcastic comments like "I see you're leaving, does
> this mean I'll have some quiet for at least an hour?" We ended up
> shouting at each other for over ten minutes. The following morning, I
> filed a written complaint against him with apartment management
> charging bullying, harassment and intimidation. I made it clear to
> them that I felt threatened by his irrational behavior. The following
> day, I was told that they had a talk with him and that he would move to
> another apartment and would not harass me with his problems again.
> However, that was not the end of it.
>
> Six months later, I found a nasty threatening note posted at my door
> written in red ink telling me to cease "heavy walking, consider this
> your warning". The note was written by a black leasing consultant. I
> confronted her about this and it was like arguing with a blank wall.
> This black leasing consultant took a complaint from this black Section
> 8 participant because blacks look after one another. The nasty
> neighbor did not move out as promised. I complained to the manager and
> she had a talk with her and the complaint was withdrawn.
>
> Six months later, I found another nasty threatening note at my door,
> this time from a leasing consultant who was just hired the day before.
> I showed it to the manager and she confessed that this note was a
> mistake and that the person who wrote it was new and she would have a
> talk with her. She also told me that the nasty black Section 8
> neighbor made wild allegations that I was "deliberately" making noise
> to piss him off and that I was "peering" into his apartment window,
> which was a lie.
>
> Three months later, he finally moved out, however, I moved out a month
> later and bought a house since I now realized that the apartment
> complex was accepting Section 8 housing and that I could get another
> nasty neighbor.
>
> I hope that my new neighborhood never accepts Section 8 housing,
> because if it does, I will fight against it. You Section 8
> participants need to realize that people like myself don't want any of
> you to be my neighbors and that you all need to restrict yourselves to
> specific neighborhoods where you will be far away from the rest of us
> who just want our property values to grow and our neighborhoods to be
> safe and decent. If this means that you will have to stay in
> high-crime neighborhoods, so be it. If you don't want that, then
> you'll need to pick yourselves up and take responsibility for
> yourselves and not live off our taxpayer dollars.
>
> Finally, stop using past discrimination and slavery as an excuse for
> your racism against white people.
>
> Thank you for hearing me out.
>
You Tell'm sista!
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