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> As in: if your income goes up, are you kicked out of the house? I went to a City Council debate where this was a big issue. Theoretically, yes. But the city
by rspeer 10y ago
> As in: if your income goes up, are you kicked out of the house?
I went to a City Council debate where this was a big issue. Theoretically, yes.
But the city doesn't actually want to kick people out of their houses.
But there was some concern that people had already pulled some shenanigans to make their finances temporarily suck so that they could get a house in Cambridge.
- scarmig 10y agoFriend of mine did something similar in San Francisco. Got a low-work part time job that paid in the affordable housing range for a year or two; he had accrued a large down payment; and he managed to win the BMR lottery. Bought a place in North Beach, tripled or quadrupled his income the following year. That makes it sound a lot more cynical than it actually was--he originally chose the badly paying job for the lifestyle it allowed him--but it's definitely an abuse of a system that doesn't even function well when it's not being abused.
- rspeer 10y agoI should clarify: I used the word "house" sloppily. We're talking about renting apartments here; no subsidy would get you an actual house.