This is one of the many reasons why Mr. Trump is so popular - taxpayers are tire of paying for someone else live when they themselves are struggling to get by.
Under Mayor Richard M. Daley, the city
of Chicago chipped in $19 million to build Sky55, a 40-story
apartment building that was part of City Hall’s plan to redevelop
the South Loop neighborhood where Daley lived. Now, the city’s
taxpayers are paying to help fill the privately owned building.
They’re helping to cover the rent for
people in the Chicago Housing Authority’s housing choice voucher
program, formerly known as Section 8, to lease 28 apartments in the
tower. Four of those apartments, each with sweeping skyline views,
are leased by CHA voucher-holders at rents of $2,730 to $3,199 a
month.
Taxpayers pick up the entire tab for
two of those apartments because, the CHA says, the tenants have no
income. Public funds also cover more than half the rent payments on
the other two units.
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It’s an expensive effort, costing
more than $47 million a month, with the federal government picking up
$35.9 million of that and CHA tenants paying the rest. But the
program is riddled with inequities, the Sun-Times and BGA found.
Among them:
The CHA pays for some to live in
high-rent, luxury properties, largely in upscale neighborhoods that
are predominantly white. Many of them contribute little or nothing
toward their rent. On the other hand, thousands pay far more and
remain clustered in poor, black neighborhoods on the South Side and
the West Side.
Of those receiving a voucher, 298 are
leasing apartments, townhouses and single-family homes that cost
$2,000 or more a month. The CHA spends a total of $7.5 million a year
on those units, ranging from spacious homes to condos in skyscrapers. Taxpayers cover a higher percentage of
the total rent for voucher-holders in two downtown wards than
anywhere else: 87 percent in the 42nd Ward and 83 percent
in the 2nd Ward.
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