The pot calling the kettle black

The Dallas Housing Authority has a problem. They have 500 rent vouchers for needy families that are going unused. You'd think there would be 500 needy families in a city as large as Dallas -- and you'd be right. In fact, they have almost 8000 families on a waiting list. They're not even taking new applications. But the 500 vouchers available come with stipulations. They are for black families only -- whites need not apply. And they are for white neighborhoods only.

Why haven't black families snapped these up? Because many of the landlords won't accept them because the families have poor rental histories -- I think that means they tear up the properties and they don't pay the rent. Other families say they don't want the vouchers because they like their black neighborhoods -- that's where their relatives live, where their churches are, and that's where they like living. Other black families say they depend on public transportation, and the white neighborhoods are not convenient to catching the DART.

DHA must use the vouchers by December or lose funding for them. Let's analyze this -- if they have them now, and they're not being used, why does it matter if they lose the funding?

My main gripe with this is that if I, as a private citizen, built an apartment complex and reserved one block of apartments for whites only, I would be paying a heck of a fine to the federal government, and I might even find my little self in prison. Or if I built a house in a black neighborhood, and said, "This house is for whites only, because this neighborhood needs to be integrated," I don't think the government would stand for it.

My secondary gripe with this is that it's obvious the government's main concern is NOT providing housing to those who need it. If it was, those vouchers would go to the families who needed them, and they would be allowed to use them wherever they could. It is absurd that families needing housing are being denied because of the color of their skin or where they want to live. It appears the government's main concern is social engineering, and I believe that's what gave Hitler such a bad reputation!