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We’re building homes for dependency and calling it progress.

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The harder you work, the less the system seems to owe you.

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Compassion used to mean helping people up. Now it means rewarding them for staying down.

BRIEFING

Grant here. While hard-working Americans are struggling to make rent payments, those who barely work are rolling into the suburbs. Let’s break it down.

Across the country, brand-new homes are being built with a fever like no other. It should be a sign of progress, but the catch is that many of these homes are being practically bankrolled with taxpayer dollars and opened to Section 8 tenants while working Americans, you know, the people actually paying the taxes, are crammed into overpriced rentals.

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Remember the days when Section 8 housing used to look something more like this?

Section 8 (housing) - Wikipedia

Well, those modest days are over. Now, Section 8 recipients get a small slice of the American dream, complete with premium finishes. They’re literally movin’ on up…

But this trend of Section 8 in the suburbs isn’t just benefiting the folks moving in. As it turns out, the housing developers behind these projects are also reaping big-time federal and state tax incentives.  These kickbacks often come through the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) program if they dedicate a portion of new units to low-income or Section 8 tenants.

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The low-income housing tax credit (LIHTC) program is the federal government’s primary policy tool for encouraging the development and rehabilitation of affordable rental housing. The program awards developers federal tax credits to offset construction costs in exchange for agreeing to reserve a certain fraction of units that are rent-restricted for lower-income households. The credits are claimed over a 10-year period. Developers need upfront financing to complete construction so they will usually sell their tax credits to outside investors (mostly financial institutions) in exchange for equity financing. The equity reduces the financing developers would otherwise have to secure and allows tax credit properties to offer more affordable rents.

The most recent legislative changes that affected the LIHTC program were included in the law commonly referred to as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (P.L. 119-21; OBBBA). Starting in 2026, the act permanently increases states’ annual allocation authority by 12% and lowers the 50% tax-exempt bond financing requirement to 25%.

DEBRIEFING

At the end of the day, this isn’t a housing solution. It’s more like a wealth transfer in disguise.

Across the country, developers are cashing in on federal and state tax incentives to build “mixed-income” communities. Under programs like the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit, they receive massive breaks for setting aside a small percentage of units for Section 8 tenants. In return, they fast-track approvals, get cheap financing, and enjoy guaranteed rent payments funded by taxpayers.

It’s a vicious circle of corruption that seems to benefit everyone except for hard-working Americans.

The people who play by the rules (like working families paying full rent) are subsidizing the very projects they can’t afford to live in. They’re stuck in rentals while their tax dollars build homes for others.

The suburbs are the new frontier for this experiment. Local governments are pushing “inclusion” mandates to meet federal diversity targets, offering developers bonuses and zoning exceptions for compliance.

This is literally the slow erosion of middle-class neighborhoods, where ownership is giving way to subsidized tenancy.

NOW YOU KNOW

This isn’t compassion. It’s control disguised as charity.