I agree completely with the sentiment, but I don't think that the current Section 8 program is doing a very good job accomplishing those goals. At least some la

I agree completely with the sentiment, but I don't think that the current Section 8 program is doing a very good job accomplishing those goals. At least some landlords cater specifically to Section 8 tenants, resulting in buildings full of poor people that might as well be traditional public housing, and many other landlords refuse to accept Section 8 tenants altogether. If you really want integration you either need to give cash directly to the tenants (so that the landlords don't and can't know they are receiving a subsidy), or you need to build Singapore-style (high quality, non-means-tested) public housing. Or both. And we need to make sure that affordable housing, whether public or private, is built in places where people actually want to live and can find work, not a 45 minute drive into the suburbs where land is cheap.