Section 8 made New Ken what it is today!

[Frankie]

This town would be a great place to live and a great place to stay, but i think it may be time to move! Take a ride through town and look at the houses and trash everywhere. Look on the hills now.... It's moving up the hill. People buying the houses and renting them out to who ever and not maintaining them. 3/4 of the house are owned by people out of state and could care less, as long as they get there money. The people living in the houses are dirty, low lifes, drug users, drug dealers, baby makers, and whores!! The people are moving into town from other states because we have so many section 8 houses and highrises. Another problem is the Wellfare Office, social security office, unemployment office, and other county offices in this town that should be in Greensburg. They are moving here cause it's easy for them to walk and pick up there checks that my hard earned money is paying for. We're all supporting these scum suckers cause they won't get a job!

Do a property search in mew ken, there's ove 100 properties for sale and a lot of them have been on the market over 2 years. I'm thinking i won't be able to sell my house.

What do you think about this?

[NewKenRes]

I agree with you! Taxes are to high and no one wants to stay here. To much drugs and violence! Do away with the section 8!!

[Chicken Head]

I agree. New Kensington had the opporunity to have a Large Penn State Campus sit where the projects are on fourth/fifth avenue.

[johnnym]

Did the city leaders not want the PSU campus or did PSU decide not locate in NK

[Anti Section 8]

In order for New Ken to rebuild and become a booming town again, they first must remove the downtown projects. Brand new community college and across the street you have drug deals, shootings, and loafing at all hours of day and nite. Has their be any mention of this at all ???
It would be nice to see.

[Jon]

No, personally they new mafia to run that area again and get that stuff back into order

[Olderndirt]

If a dam was built around Braeburn and the river was rerouted through Lower Burrell, down Freeport Rd. to about North St. and down the hill into a lake from the viaduct to Parnassus and from Constitution Blvd back into the river. The lake would attract tourists, fishermen and white water rafters.
A power plant built at North St. and one at Golden Dawn could supply power to the Tarentum business district.

[Frankie]

They need to remove all the Projects and Section 8 From this area! That's the only way its going to happen! All the houses that are section 8 are falling apart, dirty, and infested with pest. Also the houses they have marked to take down are being used for Drugs and prostitution.

[Anti Section 8]

I am a landlord of a duplex in Arnold (hill) and "am not" Section 8 certified. I plan on keeping it that way!!!I have prospective tenants complete a lengthy detailed application before considering them for the property. Being Section 8 certified, you are guaranteed your rent from the state but I prefer good ole fashion working people who work for what they have.

[reality101]

I could not agree with you more. It's that time of year again and if you sit outside on a Saturday or Sunday afternoon you might come across the people buying these houses. They ride up and down the streets holding the local real estate books and looking at the houses. Took me a while to figure this out because when someone looks at a house for sale on your street you sort of get relieved to see that they look like a normal family/couple. soon after that the house is sold and you see work being done to it and your like "nice to see someone trying to fix the place up". Then you see the for rent sign go up and then all hell breaks loose. It takes only one house to ruin a neighborhood. Local boroughs need to be more involved with who is buying and renting these homes. Make them more accountable and have stiffer penalties. Unfortunately Projects/low income sites The land is owned by the government and pretty much nothing can be done.

[Frankie]

Drug bust on Freeport St. last night..... There you go! They Rent to anyone.... Just to make a buck!!

[ValleyHts]

Liberalism in all its glory. That's ok folks dont worry those people are votes, every last one of them. They are going to vote for the latest moron thats going to keep on giving them the free money. Just look what happened in New Orleans with their section 8 housing, they were sitting there waiting for the govt to help them, cause you know they count on the govt for everything, and then they see their first policeman, running past them with a plasma TV under his arm. Then woosh water everywhere. Take a minute and look at the similarities between each poor area. Then take a look at who you have been voting for in that area for the last 30 years.

[merwindog]

I was told that before alcoa left nu ken that they had wanted to expand operations but the powers that be told them no,"we don't need you" guess hindsight is 20/20 but look at the decay. i can remember my parents driving around theblock waitng for a parking spot.

[olderndirt]

merwindog wrote:

I was told that before alcoa left nu ken that they had wanted to expand operations but the powers that be told them no,"we don't need you" guess hindsight is 20/20 but look at the decay. i can remember my parents driving around theblock waitng for a parking spot.

I'd have to disagree with, what you said about anyone telling Alcoa"no" about expanding. My dad worked there before wwII and after the war. I recall him telling me that we may be moving to Chillicothy, Ohio because Alcoa was thinking about moving operations there. As best as I can remember, this was around 1947,48 when the town was booming. I don't know if Alcoa ever moved anything there. When my dad quit working there and after I left home, Alcoa was still going pretty strong. This was about 1955,56. Anyone out there know anything about what happened to Alcoa leaving town?

[good old boys]

stop the buses from coming in to new ken & arnold, and alot of the trash will stay out.

[ValleyHts]

good old boys wrote:

stop the buses from coming in to new ken & arnold, and alot of the trash will stay out.

I think we should cordine it off like that movie Escape from New York.

[Bill]

The powers in New Ken voted down PSU in downtown because they would have lost alot of the free money they get from the County Govt. Liberalism/socialism at its finest. It is all about the control of the people. VOTE REPUBLICAN!!!!!!!!

[San]

I'm sure there are a lot of properties bought and rented to scum, but I have to tell you. I have purchased a couple properties, completely remodeled them and I have rented them. I've been very lucky, because I have great tenents who pay the rent, appreciate and take care of the property. I tell them to call me if they notice any problems. I do this, so I can stay on top of things and make repairs immediately. I'm not a slum lord. I purchased the vacant, run down properties, made them nice homes and therefore...improved the community. I do understand what you mean though....there are a lot of slum lords out there.

[Fed Up with the Crap]

If you don't know what you are talking about it would behoove you to get educated. This is mostly for you Frankie. Have you ever bothered to look into section 8 houseing to find out the people who live there? Or are you typical racist stereo typing prick that needs to growup in the real world for a short time? I live in the "projects" and my family is on welfare. Does that make me one of these people that you discribe as a "scum Bag"?
I work on average about 75 hours a week to get the small pay check that I get. Ihave a college degree Iserved in the marine Corps. for four years and got an Honorable Discharge. Am I the Scum Bag you are refering to? Or is the Housing athority one of the only places that would offer me and my family the help we needed when times got rough? Sounds to me like you need to get off your high horse stretch your hand down for a guy that needs a helping hand and offer some commpassion to the less fortunate so that drugs and violence and criminal activity are not the only answer for them. You sit smug thinking that you know what the answers are but you are to dumb to answer the real question. How are we helping. Answer this question if you would Frankie or any of the other commenters. Who have you helped today?

[good old boys]

Fed Up with the Crap wrote:

If you don't know what you are talking about it would behoove you to get educated. This is mostly for you Frankie. Have you ever bothered to look into section 8 houseing to find out the people who live there? Or are you typical racist stereo typing prick that needs to growup in the real world for a short time? I live in the "projects" and my family is on welfare. Does that make me one of these people that you discribe as a "scum Bag"?
I work on average about 75 hours a week to get the small pay check that I get. Ihave a college degree Iserved in the marine Corps. for four years and got an Honorable Discharge. Am I the Scum Bag you are refering to? Or is the Housing athority one of the only places that would offer me and my family the help we needed when times got rough? Sounds to me like you need to get off your high horse stretch your hand down for a guy that needs a helping hand and offer some commpassion to the less fortunate so that drugs and violence and criminal activity are not the only answer for them. You sit smug thinking that you know what the answers are but you are to dumb to answer the real question. How are we helping. Answer this question if you would Frankie or any of the other commenters. Who have you helped today?

I'm sorry but i have to agree with Frankie. So I guess I am a 'racist' too. You talk about helping hands, I have an idea, why don't you try helping yourself instead of waiting for everyone else to help you... give it a try, and you just might make it out of the projects after all.