To have section 8 or housing vouchers you need rental properties. Many NJ towns
do not have rentals. See Wyckoff, Franklin Lakes, Skillman, or very few.
I would prefer public assistance benefits be contingent on job/career training
and job placement.
Abbot districts do have free preschool at age 3, in other towns nothing and
there is nothing I know of from 0-3. There are some subsidies available in
poorer areas like Jersey City.
My friends are applying for the NJ health insurance for their children bc her
husband lost his job. Problem is, they live in Ridgewood and those doctors
don't take the insurance.
There is a segregation, poverty is concentrated. So, while there are services
available in those areas, the same are not available elsewhere. I think that
the concentration of poverty and forced segregation is a big part of the
problem.
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "oakdorf" <oakdorf@...> wrote:
>
> Thank you.
>
> However this:
> >>>
> Provide affordable
> (Section 8) housing in every town allowing people to choose where they want
> to live....<<<
>
> Note: This exists today in some form. I am a section 8 landlord. In Ocean
> Township. 1 - 2 family and 4 single family homes. All good people - maybe
> rough around the edges. They have kids. Go ot OT schools etc.
>
> >>>provide real job training and career counseling<<<
>
> Isn't that afford today?
>
>
>
> >>in addition to welfare benefits, public daycare facilities so that moms can
> return to work<<<
>
> Isn't that afford today? Shouldn't that be for all moms?
>
>
>
> >>along with affordable healthcare>>
>
> again, healthcare exists in some form, right? What about affordable for you
> and me?
>
> mental healthcare, addiction
> counseling, and reproductive healthcare/counseling.
>
> ALL afford today. Especially if you face jail time vs. counseling.
>
>
> A mother of 3 section 8 benefit - in the area of !700 per month.
> - Does that count as affordable?
> - Daycare.
> - free post HS and preschool education, food, medical.
>
>
> Add it up.
>
> Im all for programs to help. The trick is getting people to make it worth
> their while.
>
> Trust me. I've spoken to many people who RATHER NOT get off the benefit
> package - it simply doesn't pay enough.
>
> And true, there are thousands of people on wait lists for section 8. The
> correct term is HOUSING VOUCHERS. The voucher enables a person to take it
> anywhere - so I have a middletown check every month, a long branch check
> every month and a couple from the state every month.
>
> Get inspected each year by whatever program and have to fix whatever my
> tenant may have broken. it could get crazy.
>
> NOt much an incentive, is it?
>
------------------------------------
Yahoo! Groups Links
<*> To visit your group on the web, go to:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/
<*> Your email settings:
Individual Email | Traditional
<*> To change settings online go to:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/join
(Yahoo! ID required)
<*> To change settings via email:
asburypark-dig...@yahoogroups.com
asburypark-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com
<*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
asburypark-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com
<*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to:
http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
