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Originally Posted by milt

Thanks for the snopes link. According to Wikepedia Section 8 was created in 1974 to replace a housing program known as Section 23 which came into effect in 1961. Neither program is as old as Jasper, hence the fact that she has not lived in section 8 housing all of her life except one year. She may have lived in some sort of subsidized housing since her birth, but the story is just that, a story. Snopes says the pic is real.

Kinda like the one I posted about the guy with 14 employees he was gonna fire because of an overload of taxes. Which, BTW, has not shown up on snopes.

Can't believe everything you see in Snopes. There is always a spin. Actually, state and county homes existed for many years prior to federal involvement in housing the poor. The Housing Act of 1937 provided for establishment of local Public Housing Authorities (PHAs) to build, own, and operate housing projects for the poor...The difference with section 8 is that it only subsidized rent on private rentals. This allows the folks that do not work to live, shop, and send their kids to school to school (and watch their big screen TVs) in better neighborhoods among the rest of us....while we are off at work.