I'm going to give my 2 cents on the poverty issue. A poverty stricken area in my hometown, which has an elementary, middle and high school in the area, has been boarded up, torn down and residents had to move. These residents lived there for a long time, it was near a busline for them to get to work or they worked in the area. The residents that lived in this area were given section 8. Section 8 apartments and buildings were built further away from these schools and these children had a long walk to school. (Yes, they had to walk, no busing) Some of these apartments were not near the busline, so the residents had to find jobs closer or didn't work. The residents were also able to use their section 8 to move to other areas in the city that accept section 8. These apartments however, had slum lord landlords and these buildings were eventually condemned and the residents were forced to find somewhere else to live. Now, the "government" or whomever runs the section 8 claims to be helping these poverty stricken residents find adequate housing, but how is this really helping them? It's not making it better, its making the problem worse?