Advantage of Apartment Living - Page 6

NYCLatinaMe · ‎01-14-2017

@hckynut wrote:
@sceniccoast

I was born in '39, no WWII vets while we lived there. Mostly just mothers raising their kids with no dad. My mom was of the few that worked, the others kept having more babies.

Don't know if there were government help back then, but no way my mother would ever take money she didn't earn. Drugs weren't around back then, but lots of booze was around.

We love where we live. Rural, but can get to about any part if town in half hour or less. Close to Interstates and mostly 4 lane roads. We are buried away and unless you have been here, most do not know there are even homes here. One way in, one way out, and very few houses.

Stay well now,

hckynut

@hckynut you mentioned in your earlier post that you lived in public housing until you were 15 years old. By definition, public housing means the government subsidized the housing. It is available to people who meet certain income criteria. No shame IMO in accepting government help. Everyone needs help at one time or another. Nice that it is available.

hckynut · ‎03-10-2010

@NYCLatinaMe

I was born in the Projects and my mom rarely said much about it. What I do remember her saying was this: "If I make more than $23 a week, we will be kicked out". She was raising myself and my 3 older sisters.

My thoughts of government help as I grew up was "taking actual money from the government". As I mentioned in my post, seems like some time back, it was about work.

Out of all the families surrounding us, I knew of only 2 others mothers that actually "went to work at a paying job". How those that didn't work lived without working, I can only surmise.

I vividly remember that those families grew in size regularly, and couldn't quite get why a brother and sister had different last names. This was the 1940's and I went to a Catholic school.

"There is no shame IMO in accepting government help"! To my mother it obviously, looking back in hindsight. She taught all 4 of us at an early age how to be independent, which is how she lived her life.

Her mother, was a very wealthy family, disowned her(us) when she married my drunk sperm donor( that is what he was to me). They never offered to help, and my mother would never have accepted it if they did.

My memory of growing up is still very vivid to me. While I didn't know certain things about life at a single digit age, I did understand that if I wanted something, work was the way to attain it. Started at 8 years old with my 1st job.

Long enough bio about my youth, but it makes sense that Public Housing Projects, were in some way an assist to certain people. But $23 a week is a max for a family of 4? I realize the decade, but in those times, it didn't go very far.

And I still wonder how so many families had 4-5-6 kids, and the mother never worked. It had to be someone handing out benefits, and who or what else could that be but!

hckynut

hckynut(john)

gertrudecloset · ‎02-13-2021

@hckynut wrote:
@NYCLatinaMe

I was born in the Projects and my mom rarely said much about it. What I do remember her saying was this: "If I make more than $23 a week, we will be kicked out". She was raising myself and my 3 older sisters.

My thoughts of government help as I grew up was "taking actual money from the government". As I mentioned in my post, seems like some time back, it was about work.

Out of all the families surrounding us, I knew of only 2 others mothers that actually "went to work at a paying job". How those that didn't work lived without working, I can only surmise.

I vividly remember that those families grew in size regularly, and couldn't quite get why a brother and sister had different last names. This was the 1940's and I went to a Catholic school.

"There is no shame IMO in accepting government help"! To my mother it obviously, looking back in hindsight. She taught all 4 of us at an early age how to be independent, which is how she lived her life.

Her mother, was a very wealthy family, disowned her(us) when she married my drunk sperm donor( that is what he was to me). They never offered to help, and my mother would never have accepted it if they did.

My memory of growing up is still very vivid to me. While I didn't know certain things about life at a single digit age, I did understand that if I wanted something, work was the way to attain it. Started at 8 years old with my 1st job.

Long enough bio about my youth, but it makes sense that Public Housing Projects, were in some way an assist to certain people. But $23 a week is a max for a family of 4? I realize the decade, but in those times, it didn't go very far.

And I still wonder how so many families had 4-5-6 kids, and the mother never worked. It had to be someone handing out benefits, and who or what else could that be but!

hckynut

Government help is government help. Even Veterans get Government help, @hckynut . Why does it matter how you get it?

The projects were and have always been for people who could not afford market rate and had larger families but no homeownership.

Lots of mothers had children and their dads left them to go look for work during the industrialization and mechinization period. That's why a lot of almshouses and settlement non profits sprang up. To help women with children whose men left the home. Taught the women trades so they could go work. Certain demographics weren't allowed in the projects until the late 1960's. Some projects didn't exist until the 1960's.

A Negative Mind ~ Will give you a Negative Life

gertrudecloset · ‎02-13-2021

You can learn here too: @hckynut

https://nlihc.org/resource/public-housing-history

A Negative Mind ~ Will give you a Negative Life

RoughDraft · ‎03-09-2010

~The only difference between this place and the Titanic is that the Titanic had a band.~

hckynut · ‎03-10-2010

@gertrudecloset wrote:
You can learn here too: @hckynut

https://nlihc.org/resource/public-housing-history

@gertrudecloset

No thank you. Living it when I did was what I knew. It's history is not my history, as I lived it. My only interest now is living my active life, which finally I am again healthy and physically fit since late 2016.

hckynut

hckynut(john)

gertrudecloset · ‎02-13-2021

@hckynut wrote:
@gertrudecloset wrote:
You can learn here too: @hckynut

https://nlihc.org/resource/public-housing-history

@gertrudecloset

No thank you. Living it when I did was what I knew. It's history is not my history, as I lived it. My only interest now is living my active life, which finally I am again healthy and physically fit since late 2016.

hckynut