Gary and Mary will be sucking the taxpayers dry trying to sell houses this Sunday.

Gee, why doesn't McC have  list of open houses posted yet?

I have found a number of city houses via another (reliable) source that are listed as open houses this Sunday.   Will post info, will see if the list matches what the city ultimately lists in the taxpayer paid full page ad.

Gee, a quick look, several are empty.   See, the owners have already fled the city.  

Perhaps the cheerleaders cheerleader for city can explain why people have left their city houses without waiting for them to sell.

Oh, not a chance, total silence.

Quoted from mikechristine1

Perhaps the cheerleaders cheerleader for city can explain why people have left their city houses without waiting for them to sell.

Wait, I think I found the missing former homeowners:


Hope for housing draws hundreds in Schenectady

Candidates for Section 8 get first chance since 2010

Tuesday, September 17, 2013
By Kelly de la Rocha
Gazette Reporter  



Hundreds of people stand in line Tuesday at the Schenectady Municipal Housing Authority office on Broadway to sign up for federal Section 8 benefits.

SCHENECTADY — At 3:30 a.m. Tuesday, Jasmine Gorritz arrived at the Schenectady
Municipal Housing Authority, prepared to wait 41⁄2 hours to be one of the first to
add her name to the Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Program waiting list.

There were already 181 people in line ahead of her.

“The line was literally wrapping around the whole parking lot. There was these
people that I know that were there from 8 o’clock the night before waiting on
line to be one of the first ones there,” she said.

At a glance

• The Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Program provides subsidized housing for individuals and families with very low incomes.

• Tenants pay about 30 percent of their gross income toward rent in privately owned buildings and federal funding makes up the difference. To qualify, a family of four can earn no more than $38,850 annually.

• Applications are accepted at the Schenectady Municipal Housing Authority, 375 Broadway, through Friday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Because of a backlog of applicants, Tuesday was the first time since October 2010 that anyone has been allowed to submit his or her name to Schenectady’s Section 8 waiting list.

Applications will be accepted at the housing authority at 375 Broadway through Friday.

Once a name has been added to the Section 8 waiting list, applicants begin a second round of waiting — this time for years — before one of the city’s 1,386 subsidized apartments can be secured.

During a typical four-day Section 8 waiting list enrollment period, close to 2,000 applications come in, according to Richard Homenick, executive director of the Schenectady Municipal Housing Authority.

“This year there just seem to be a lot more people here than there were three years ago,” he said.

As the sun came up Tuesday morning, the line of applicants stretched to about 250, said Tyrone Anderson, who arrived at 6:45 a.m. but decided to come back later in hopes that the line would be shorter.

By about 10 a.m., the parking lot still held more than 200 people, with about 100 more waiting inside.

“We do what we can to make people comfortable here. The first thing we do is pray for good weather,” said Homenick.

In anticipation of long lines, a portable toilet was brought in, stanchions were set up and police were hired for crowd control.

The hourslong wait could be averted if year-round waiting list registration were offered, but that idea was ruled out in an effort to reign in the amount of time it takes for applicants to secure housing.

“People apply today, probably some of them won’t be housed for three years, four years, five years,” Homenick said. “If we kept the list open and they kept applying, their opportunity for housing would be 10, 15, 20 years out.”

Schenectady’s $9 million Section 8 program has weathered a series of budget cuts over the past three years, which has resulted in layoffs and even longer waits for applicants.

“We’re receiving 69 cents on the dollar of what we should receive to manage the program under Congress’ definition of what is required to manage the program,” Homenick said. “There are Section 8 programs around the country now that are starting to turn in their commitment to the government, turn the program over to the states, because they can’t afford it anymore.”

Gorritz moved to Schenectady from New York City because she said she couldn’t get housing assistance there. She has also tried Connecticut with no luck.

“This was the only place that has offered the help,” she said.

In addition to Section 8 housing, low-income Schenectady residents have access to public housing owned by the housing authority, but the 1,000 residences in Ten Eyck Apartments, Schonowee Village and Lincoln Heights are full, and there’s an extensive waiting list for them.

Those in line at the housing authority Tuesday morning seemed resigned to wait.

Claude Nevels was leaning heavily on his cane after 21⁄2 hours on his feet. “I’m all used up. I’m on grace now,” he said.

Despite his weariness, he had good things to say about the housing authority.

“They’re very good at it, considering all the dimensions they have to deal with, all kinds of situations, circumstances,” he said. “They’re effective — that’s the bottom line.”

Mary Carr of Schenectady was grateful to find a chair near the front of the line. She sat down heavily, after more than two hours of waiting, two empty coffee mugs in hand.

Carr signed up for the Section 8 waiting list four years ago and was hoping to find out how far she has progressed on the list.

Although she has endured years of waiting, she had praise for Section 8.

“It’s a wonderful thing to have,” she said.

Anderson returned to the line shortly before 11 a.m. and was pleased to see it was a bit shorter.

“It will be well worth the wait if they can help,” he said, eyeing the restless crowd shuffling between the stanchions.

OMG!!!!

YUP....after seeing this....folks will most certainly want to buy a home in SCUMnectady!!!

Before it was in the gazetto........folks who saw the line were 'buzzing' about the mass of people and how cops had to be there to direct traffic!!!

The last taxpayer fleeing the City of Schenectady please turn out the lights.

It's worth repeating that my friend was told she wasn't as important as the NYC women when it came to housing. BTW, women have been using "fleeing an abusive relationship" to 'jump the line' for benefits. As in, "my relationship was fine until it wasn't, now you pay me for a new place to live". Notice the even distribution along racial lines, completely integrated. I'm pointing that out because when this kind of topic comes up, people start throwing around terms like "racist" to shut down any discussion or opposition to the status quo.
It is just plain wrong to pick a spot on a map and use it as a dump for surplus people. Rudy started this, Bloomie continued it, wouldn't you think a Democrat president running on a "hope" platform would have done something for these "folks"?

it's mostly driven by women infants children......hhhhhmmmm.....interesting....no one in that photo looked like they were
going hungry and as a matter of fact could stand some fasting.....

give them a piece of land to work....and call their own

those who control the land control the masses
those who control the regulations control the masses
those who control the food supply control the masses
etc etc etc

see how well the masses were controlled????

That remark about year round waiting list registration not being offered because it increases wait times does not really make sense. By making people stand around in pens like the stockyards at the old Tobin plant, all they are really doing is discouraging some of the most desperate applicants in favor of those who can most easily stand around waiting all day.
I had heard that Section Eight money was drying up. You can make $38, 850 for a family of four and still qualify for a rent subsidy?

Of course, if these people are accepted, they won't have to worry about making too much to qualify as their income will be zero.

Hell, McC's home selling program isn't even make the first page anymore, i.e., the first page of the open houses, actually had to look more carefully amidst all the other houses for sale, outside the city, houses that increase in value rather than lose money.

Wow, and what a day for this month's home gala, with the front page headline.

Actually, they should have waited until next Sunday for the gala, then the mayor could have presented his budget message prior to the bus tour.

No shortage of people willing to live in Schenectady, just not to pay for it. Or work. No shortage of people willing to work here, and get paid by the city, just not to live here and pay taxes here. No shortage of people willing to open a business here, just not if they have to pay taxes. No shortage of people who don't want to live here and pay the taxes any more. People who live here and are trying to pay the taxes getting cast out in the street. My God.

Quoted from Madam X

No shortage of people willing to live in Schenectady, just not to pay for it. Or work. No shortage of people willing to work here, and get paid by the city, just not to live here and pay taxes here. No shortage of people willing to open a business here, just not if they have to pay taxes. No shortage of people who don't want to live here and pay the taxes any more. People who live here and are trying to pay the taxes getting cast out in the street. My God.

Taxes are out of control.

The tax dollars being spent don't remain in Schenectady.

How long can all the tax money continue to be funneled out of Schenectady?