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It doesn’t have to be urban or dangerous. Most of the time it is but not always. My father grew up poor in a rural area and was in the projects in his county.
by wil421 7y ago
It doesn’t have to be urban or dangerous. Most of the time it is but not always. My father grew up poor in a rural area and was in the projects in his county.
- keiferski 7y agoMy experience is that public housing in rural areas aren't referred to as "projects."
- wil421 7y agoI’ve only heard the word projects in movies. Most people call it section 8 in my area. I’m in the South.
- rory 7y agoMy understanding is that these are logistically different things. Public housing projects are state owned, whereas Section 8 refers to privately owned housing where rent is paid at least partly by government vouchers.
- bena 7y agoIt's one of those technically different, but functionally the same things. "Projects" and "Section 8" are two separate government programs, but they both wind up with similar demographics because it only attempts to solve one issue. And in the case of Section 8, assumes best faith action of a third party. Which is hardly the case. Often, an apartment complex gets built as "Section 8" housing. And since the government is footing the bill, not the tenant, it's built to the least possible standard and service is usually poor. Because the incentive for the landlord is to spend as little as possible on it.
- nostrebored 7y agoLiving in Atlanta, that usually depended on who you were talking to. I've heard both, but "section 8" usually came from middle class+ white people
- astura 7y ago"Section 8" is a different thing, that refers to vouchers that are used to pay rent to private landlords. "The projects" on the other hand are owned and operated by government.
- dragonwriter 7y agoThere is overlap, in project-based Section 8, which is based on government contracts with private landlords for specific housing projects, as opposed to the better known form of Section 8 which follows the individual rather than being locked to a particular housing project.
- eden_hazard 7y agoI'm in NYC and this is what we refer to as the projects here: https://i.imgur.com/UyTKWJg.jpg https://i.imgur.com/UyTKWJg.jpg It's mostly people living on welfare but there's all sorts of people living in these. People that are disabled, poor, people with money but want to be cheap and save money. The buildings and the elevators can sometimes smell like piss. On garbage days, the streets and the walkways in between are covered in litter.