#low income housing

[arc-hus]

Bon Pastor Social Housing, Barcelona - Peris+Toral

[chronicallycouchbound]

Rent strikes aren’t always an option.

I live in an area that has some decent tenant’s rights laws, and it even protects things like when your landlord won’t fix major issues in your apartment, you can withhold rent until it is fixed.

But since I use government aid vouchers to pay my rent, I can’t participate in rent strikes/rent withholding.

My apartment has some pretty serious issues: broken windows, overhead lights out, a fairly large crack in the floor next to my toilet, the shower almost always only sprays scalding water, all my appliances break frequently, the electrical system is fucked, my door lock doesn’t function properly, and I could keep going. I can’t do anything but call my maintenance guy and hope they eventually get around to it. These problems have been going on for years.

My housing is nearly unlivable, at best it’s unsafe, and there’s no end in sight. I had to stop living at my apartment for several months because of a combination of factors (I’m also being stalked by two separate people) but nothing changed when I went back. There’s no other wheelchair accessible ADA apartments available, and I’m not a high priority for other apartments anyways because I’m not currently legally homeless.

I’ve been considering signing off of my lease and sleeping outside again because it would put me at the top of the wait lists for new housing opportunities, and I qualify for other services. I’ve spent over half of my life homeless so I know what it entails.

And what’s fucked up is that this is something a rent strike might not even fix. My apartment is in high demand (less than 1% of housing is ADA accessible, wait lists in my state are about 5 years long, I’m allowed to break my lease at any time because they have a long line of people who need apartments) so there’s basically nothing I can do.

We need systemic changes.

[prideandpen]

the fact that low income housing often includes restrictions like "no over night guests" or "no sleep overs in bedrooms" for adult renters is so offensive

[wack-ashimself]

Dear all future employers, Unless you pay me, full time, at LEAST $22, I do not want the fucking full time job. I'll take PART time, at whatever shit wage you're gonna pay. Cuz see unless I get that $22/hr full time, I will LITERALLY never get out of the financial hole I am stuck in. So the idea of having SLIGHTLY more security and SLIGHTLY better stuff doesn't trade off fair in my book for you dictating majority of the rest of my life. WHY DO I OWE SOMEONE FOR BEING BORN ON SHARED PLANET; who owns this place and HOW, ethically or morally? Not to mention ONE emergency (car, health, whatever) making me go broke all over again means it would be fucking meaningless. Fuck off. I'd rather die in the streets than work till I'm dead for a soulless business.

<see, that's the catch 22 of living in low income housing. Either you want AWFUL pay/hours so that way your rent is STUPID low, OR you want the BEST pay and hours so YOU CAN FUCKING MOVE OUT OF LOW INCOME HOUSING. THAT'S THE POINT, RIGHT!? Cuz the idea of working full time for shit pay till I die just to live in this fuck hole is MY HELL ON EARTH. Living here is a god damn I paid for it prison cell.>

[indizombie]

There has been evidence of stress and poorer mental health associated with evictions. The stress arises from the anticipation of dislocation, lack of opportunity to negotiate with authority as well as loss of community. This experience is not limited to developing world only. An ecological study of the 1975 – 79 demolition of low income housing in the South Bronx in New York City found a sudden increase in high risk behaviour such as substance abuse and violence. Additionally, there was an increase in HIV and tuberculosis among displaced residents and the communities which received displaced residents.

‘Changes in Social Determinant Following Forced Evictions and Their Health Consequences- Economically Weaker Sections (Ews_ Quarters, Ejipura, Bangalore)’, Samyukta

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"It May Be War, But Housewives Are Riled Over Flooding of Street," Windsor Star. August 1, 1942. Page 3, 5 & 10. ---- THERE'S water, water everywhere on Central avenue, near Tecumseh-road and the residents of the wartime house in the muddy flooded area are threatening to refuse to pay their rent until something is done to take the water away. Picture at top left shows neighborhood children splashing over the original roadway. The mud will be tracked into houses and round into new carpets, housewives say. At top right, a car is shown moving at moderate speed through a puddle. The spray covers the sidewalks and lawns, ruins clothes and automobile finishes, as well as all the neighborhood tempers. Below, company has called at one of the houses and the occupants of the car are having a hard time trying to find a place to bring their car to dock.

Housewives Are Militant ---- Men on Central Avenue Also Fighting Mad About Flood --- Occupants of Wartime Housing homes on Central avenue, near Tecumseh road, are ready to do battle over muddy water which has an in the street for two weeks Some are refusing to pay their rent until the muddy flood is taken away, House wives are militant over mud-tracked rugs. Some attribute sore throats to the flood, and a few of those inclined to take the situation less seriously have spoken of building landing docks. WATER AND MUD A reporter and photographer of The Windsor Star plowed through the yellow-brown sea of Central avenue 13 hours after the heavy rain had stopped yesterday. In some places the sidewalk is buried under mud throw up by swashbuckling auto automobiles. In me places the water is almost a foot deep All boulevards are mires. Mud has been splashed half-way up the front walk of the trim little homes out there. Housewives stand in doorways with a gleam in their eyes that bodes no good for someone each time a car cleaves the water. There are sewers on Central Avenue. But the sewers are placed at each end of the block, and the roadway has sagged in the centre, so that the sewers gleam as freshly as when installed, while only a few feet away, children splash, sail boats, and distraught parents scream at them to get out of the mud and into a tub immediately. There are threats on the smouldering battlefront of Central avenue sea today. They're the threats of a legion of women who are fed up with having to clean house every day with a mop: the threats of young women who no longer dare walk down the sidewalk that are covered by mud, for fear of finding their white summer clothes spotted with brown by passing cars; there are threats from men whose cars need rewashing each time they leave home; there are threats from those who want to entertain company and are ashamed of their neighborhood: there are threats from distraught mothers who blame the condition of the streets for sore throat. WOMEN INDIGNANT Several of the women are going to swing into action today. They said their rents are due now, but that no. one is going to get a penny until the street is fixed and their homes become "decent places to live in, instead of pigpens." "My little girl has bronchitis," said the occupant of one house. "She's three years old, and when she goes out to play she gets in all that filth. There is mud everywhere. I don't think we should stand for it." "It's a mess" complained a second. "My husband went down to the board of health and they told him they couldn't do anything about it. I'll tell anyone that wartime housing is certainly far from healthy. Why I had company here, and I was so ashamed. They got stuck in the mud. We're not going to pay our rent until this street is fixed. My husband cut a downhill drain for part of the street, but that doesn't help much. Everyone gets splashed with mud. It gets tracked into the house. I'm just sick about it." "It's a disgrace," said a third. "All my children have had infected throats since then floors came, and I blame that water out there for it. It's terrible. It isn't healthy. I had a boy guest visiting here from Pleasant Ridge. He comes from a fine home. They have a maid. Every time he went outside, he came in covered with that filth from head to foot, and I had to put him in the tub. It's been this way for two weeks. I'm not going to buy a carpet until that street is fixed. I'm polishing floors all day long." MOTORIST ANGERED "I've got a good mind to send some- one the bill for washing my car," said an irate motorist, who had just met another ca. in midstream. "Every time I go through here, the car is coated with muck from bumper to bumper. If any windows are open, it's even worse."

"It's awful," said a fifth. "I came here last March from the West, and I couldn't even get out of the taxi. I ruined my shoes. They should have decent drains here. I can't keep my rug cleaned. It's always full of mud. I can't even let my children come in their own home the front way, they get so messy from just walking on the sidewalk. The Wartime Housing people say it's up to the city to fix, and the city passed the buck to the Wartime Housing. Let me tell you, it's going to be just too bad for the city if I get sick as a result of this. I'd be ashamed for my friends out West to see the way we have to live. I have to pay my rent tomorrow, and I don't think I will, until this is fixed. There's no road. There's not even a side-walk. It's all mud. Mud everywhere!" Said a sixth: "You might as well be living on the battlefront. They say that the men in factories are the men behind the men behind the guns. I agree with them. We live in mud too. What's the use of trying to look clean and dainty when all you have to do is to step outside your house when a car passes and get drenched in that awful smelly stuff."

And a seventh: "Cars are getting stalled in that goo all the time. We aren't even sure of our deliveries any more. We women out here are tired of talking. It's about time we had some action. If the city won't take the action, and the Wartime Housing won't take the action, then we women will!"

[chronicallycouchbound]

Grant’s Pass vs Johnson is among upcoming 2024 supreme court votes that would criminalize all homelessness federally.

Source

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Add your name as a grassroots co-sponsor of the H2O UP Act to help families afford water bills

In 2021, Representatives Rashida Tlaib and Debbie Dingell helped secure more than $1.1 billion in federal funding to assist low-income households who need support in paying off their water bills and paying for fees to reconnect their water service. But that emergency funding ran out and millions of families urgently need assistance to access clean drinking water.

So the Representatives just introduced the H2O UP Act (Half-Century Update for Water Access and Affordability Act) to establish the first-ever permanent federal low-income water affordability program.

The affordability program would provide financial assistance to low-income households for drinking water, including direct financial assistance, debt relief, and support with reconnection of services and water efficiency. Within the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the program would also prohibit water shutoffs and provide technical assistance for community water systems.

To make sure it gets implemented on the ground in a way that’s equitable and changes people’s lives for the better, the legislation will establish Community Advisory Committees comprised of low-income residents, nonprofits, water utilities, and other stakeholders in each EPA region to advise the EPA.

Will you sign on as a grassroots co-sponsor of the new H2O UP Act to ensure safe, affordable water for all low-income U.S. households? Add your name today.

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Tucson House Low Income Housing

Habitat for Humanity Tucson is dedicated to creating low income housing opportunities of Tucson House for families in our community. Our mission is to provide affordable homes that foster stability and growth. If you or someone you know is in need of housing assistance, reach out to us. Together, we can work towards a better future for all!

[chronicallycouchbound]

Fun fact: in the United States, most cities and towns have public land property records available online.

And a lot of places have squatter’s rights, often with some sort of stipulation, such as you need mail to the address, a utility in your name (actually very easy to set if you have the funds) or verification that you have been there every day. A photo with the daily newspaper every day can establish residence. After that, they have to do a full eviction process. Where you can have even more rights as a tenant.

Not all heroes wear capes

[siegelzachary0]

Who accepts housing choice vouchers?

[superrchance]

It’s not a “low income housing” it’s a “Post-Mansion” you just wouldn’t get it.

[wack-ashimself]

I hate cigarettes, secondhand smoke is disgusting, but I'll tell you what, when I walk down my hallway after 4:00 p.m., or on a weekend, and smell cigarette or cannabis smoke coming out of apartments from people breaking the rules, all I smell is freedom.

[gabrieldespinoza]

Hesperia Planning Board Approves 114-Unit Affordable Senior Housing Complex

HESPERIA, Calif. (VVNG.com) – In a unanimous decision, the Planning Commission has given approval to Shree Properties, Inc. for the development of a 114-unit senior apartment complex. The decision came during the commission meeting held on February 8, 2024, receiving mixed reactions from the community. The new complex, which aims to support lower-income senior residents, will boast a 2% density…