Quote Originally Posted by Rbt View Post
...The other sad

thing is, and again this is possibly not fully true, is that I saw an article about someone who has been living in

"Section 8" housing for something like 57 of her 58 years. But I can believe that once someone gets into that

"entitlement" rut, there is little or no incentive to get out of it.

Sad.
You're right not true,

Section 8 hasn't been around that long.

One

can look at the history of the federal government's involvement in housing in three broad phases – the Depression

era through 1949; the 1960s and 1970s; and the Reagan years to the present. The Section 8 programs were created

during the second of these periods, in 1974, but to more fully appreciate the recent changes and current policy

dilemmas involving Section 8, it is useful to understand the overall context – what came before and what has

followed since the enactment of these programs.