The NY Times has an article today on the black activists suing in Los Angeles over the Section 8 Housing raids in the historically lily white Antelope valley wherein their is popular sentiment that the Section 8 housing assistance program is simply a block busting tool used to by the government to turn neighborhoods.
Whether it be fraud in section 8 housing applications in the Antelope Valley or excessive enforcement of building codes in Paducah, Kentucky to convert minority owned crack houses into homosexual owned art galleries all regulations and all enforcement programs will have effects on elements of the population deemed undesirable.
Being poor and black is not an excuse to commit fraud in a government housing program. Being a black owner of a crack house is not an excuse to be without running water and a sewage connection. A heterosexual crack dealer is deemed undesirable when the Paducah program favors homosexual property owners on the theory that homosexuals are traditionally more oriented to having home-based businesses and an active street life that enhances the community.
Paducah used housing regulations to get rid of crack dealers that happened to be heterosexual; Antelope Valley residents want to use Section 8 fraud detection raids as a way of getting rid of poor criminals who happen to be black. The goal is always the same, its the excuses that are always changing.
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