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Section 8: Still a Ripoff after All These Years<\/a><\/h1>\n

by James Bovard, November 9, 2026 \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n

Washington policy wizards have discovered a new federal housing outrage: twice as many households could be collecting Section 8 rental subsidies in the nation\u2019s capital if the program was better managed.<\/p>\n

Section 8 seeks to achieve \u201ceconomic integration\u201d and \u201cincome integration.\u201d The DC government set the rental subsidy level for studio apartments at $3,652 per month and one-bedroom apartments at $3,768. Those subsidies are higher than 98 percent of all the one-bedroom and studio apartments rented in the city, according to an analysis by Capitol Commonsense website. That level of subsidy would enable recipients to rent almost everything except a penthouse apartment on the Georgetown waterfront.<\/p>\n

The DC Housing Authority (DCHA) uses federal funds to pay up to $6,231 per month to rent four-bedroom apartments\u2014four times the national median rent. A federal audit by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) found that DC subsidy levels violated federal law. But that condemnation didn\u2019t slow the gravy train for lucky subsidized renters.<\/p>\n

The DC government justifies the high rental subsidies to allow recipients to \u201cmove to opportunity.\u201d But because recipients must pay up to a third of their income for rent under the program, collecting Section 8 sharply decreases work effort, according to numerous economic studies. If your reported income is zero, your rent is also zero\u2014bummer! The average recipient stays on Section 8 for 15 year<\/strong>s, so getting a rental voucher could be the equivalent of a million dollar windfall. Section 8 has a limited budget, meaning that not everyone eligible receives the subsidy. That has spawned endless bribery scandals going back decades.<\/p>\n

According to the American Enterprise Institute<\/a>, \u201cThe most direct drawback of DCHA\u2019s unusually high payment standard is that it reduces the number of families who can receive housing assistance.\u201d<\/p>\n

Outrageous benefits have always been a feature, not a bug, of the Section 8 rental subsidy program created in 1974<\/strong>. In 1980, the US General Accounting Office concluded: \u201cThe high rents and quality of [Section 8] housing invite resentment on the part of the taxpaying public who see their subsidized neighbors living in better accommodations than they themselves can afford.\u201d GAO also observed that Section 8\u2019s goal of mixing the poor and the middle class is often not achieved because Section 8 \u201chousing is often so costly that. . .even middle-income unassisted households cannot afford to live in it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Federal rental handouts reward irresponsibility and perennially bring out the worst in many recipients<\/strong>. In 1994, in a Wall Street Journal<\/em><\/a> piece headlined \u201cClinton\u2019s Wrecking Ball for Suburbs,\u201d I warned, \u201cSection 8 recipients can destroy neighborhoods because of the paralyzing red tape that HUD imposes on private landlords who want to evict deadbeat, hooligan and violent renters.\u201d HUD Secretary Henry Cisneros denounced my piece and its \u201cunfortunate stereotyping of assisted-housing residents.\u201d Cisneros was a typical HUD boss who pretended that any collateral victims of HUD subsidies never existed.<\/p>\n

HUD gives subsidized renters a right to raise hell<\/strong>. In 2009, HUD launched an investigation of the Cincinnati Metropolitan Housing Authority for purportedly racially discriminatory Section 8 policies such as \u201ceviction for offenses such as loud music.\u201d But decibel levels are color-blind. In 2011, Cincinnati capitulated HUD\u2019s demands and ceased penalizing Section 8 recipients for nuisance offenses.<\/p>\n

A 2009 analysis on Section 8 published in Homicide Studies noted, \u201cCrime, specifically homicide, became displaced to where the low-income residents were relocated. Homicide was simply moved to a new location, not eliminated.\u201d After I wrote a 2011 Wall Street Journal<\/em> piece detailing Section 8-spawned carnage, the ACLU denounced me, claiming that my article \u201cviciously scapegoats families who receive housing subsidies.\u201d But it wasn\u2019t my fault that Section 8\u2019s mischief multiplied after the Obama administration championed permitting ex-convicts (including murderers) to use Section 8.<\/p>\n

Russell Vought\u2014Trump\u2019s Office of Management and Budget chief\u2014derided Section 8 because it \u201cbrings with it crime, decreased property values, and results in dependency and subsidized irresponsibility.\u201d<\/strong> At least 30 people were killed at Section 8 residences in Chicago during the first half of 2016. The Chicago Sun-Times<\/em> and Chicago-based Better Government Association \u201cmatched the addresses of Section 8 housing in Chicago against the city\u2019s online crime database\u201d and found that, for the first six months of 2016, \u201cpolice responded to reported crimes \u2014 from thefts to homicides \u2014 at 7,379 addresses where at least one voucher-holder lived.\u201d<\/p>\n

In Houston, male Section 8 recipients are twice as likely to commit violent crimes as people with similar backgrounds and incomes who did not receive housing vouchers. A Texas A&M University analysis attributed the \u201cincrease in arrests for violent crime\u201d to \u201cthe additional funds and leisure time available to voucher recipients that can be used to commit crimes.\u201d The analysis noted: \u201cMoving to a better neighborhood. . .could increase crime by providing easier and wealthier targets.\u201d A HUD-financed study found that Section 8 relocations had \u201ctripled the rate of arrests for property crimes\u201d among boys who moved to new locales.<\/p>\n

Almost half of federal rental voucher recipients are black, but middle-class blacks are Section 8\u2019s least-inhibited critics. Sheldon Carter of Antelope Valley, California, testified at a public hearing on local Section 8 controversies: \u201cThis is not a racial issue. It is a color issue. The color is green and it\u2019s my dollars.\u201d Shirlee Bolds told Iowa\u2019s Dubuque Telegraph Herald<\/em> in 2009: \u201cI moved away from the city to get away from all this crap. Dubuque\u2019s getting rough. I think it\u2019s turning into a little Chicago, like they\u2019re bringing the street rep here.\u201d In southside Chicago, Keith Tate\u2014the head of a local community association in a middle-class neighborhood\u2014complained in 2011 that Section 8 \u201chas been disastrous for Chatham. Never did we see individuals sitting on their cars drinking 40-ounce bottles of beer.\u201d<\/p>\n

But neither Section 8 recipients nor federal policymakers will ever be held liable. Despite OMB chief Vought\u2019s condemnation, President Trump signed a housing bill early this year that boosted Section 8 subsidies by $4 billion. That bill got signed in the interlude between Trump\u2019s victory over Venezuela and his victory over Iran, during a time when Trump was distracted by masterminding the new White House ballroom.<\/p>\n

Trusting federal housing subsidies to produce social justice is the ultimate triumph of hope over experience.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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