. That year, residents voted to incorporate Providence Village as its own municipality.
Less than 10 minutes later, Townsend saw flashing police lights through the window. She ran outside to find a police officer with the Aubrey Police Department, which patrols Providence Village, pointing a stun gun at her son’s friends. The officer told Townsend that her son and his friends ran a stop sign and were driving recklessly through the neighborhood. Another told her they were speeding at 45 mph through an alley. At least six officers showed up to the scene.
Since then, according to renters who spoke to the Tribune, it’s become common for Section 8 tenants to be blamed online for anything that goes wrong in the neighborhood. By June, that thinking had changed. The HOA board first passed a rule to fine landlords $300 a week if they rent to Section 8 voucher holders — a move that drew applause at a June 6 public meeting.
“That’s pretty functionally equivalent to being able to say, ‘You’re Black, get out,’” Daniel said of the ban.The Section 8 ban is part of a broader package of rules passed by the HOA board aimed at discouraging real estate investors from buying homes in the neighborhood and turning them into rentals.
Jenny Hersey, a mortgage underwriter who moved to Providence Village in 2008, supported the rules package out of worry that investor activity would make the neighborhood unaffordable, she said. Two other homeowners associations developed by Huffines Communities have enacted similar bans — Savannah HOA, also in Denton County, and Heartland Community Association in Kaufman County, about half an hour east of Dallas.
At one point, neighbors found a news article detailing Threats’ 2019 arrest on charges of credit card fraud in Alabama — featuring her mugshot — and shared it in one of the neighborhood Facebook groups.
i can see it happening. some of them really do need rent help, but some of them are just thugs using public services. no one wants a thug leaving next to them, that goes for all races folks. its an hoa, they have rules about living in that community. dont like it.dont live there
Push that 'race baiter' button again.
Imagine pushing a narrative that claims only black families are using section 8 and then claiming only white families live in suburbs. This is how we can tell the tribune writers are white liberals from the suburbs.
If a landlord doesn’t want to rent to someone they shouldn’t have to. They’re other neighborhoods😌
It's a shame that there wasn't more information about the increased crime and law enforcement response! This problem may have been able to be alleviated through open dialog with residents and police. Possibly neighborhood watch groups that would be inclusive across the board!
It’s to prevent crime and landlords should have a right in choosing who they rent to😌
There is no way a city can ban or restrict section 8 housing. That has to be a clear violation of fair housing. Private landlords can choose to take sec 8 but a city restricting it?
TEXAS IS THE GATEWAY TO HELL PLS MOVE!
Shouldn’t our Attorney General rally to help?
OGrady_Texas Disgusting
Those are $300-400k homes. Why should taxpayer dollars pay for rent in that neighborhood?
Attn Black People: Texas Tribune “journalists” believe you are the only race that receives Section 8 subsidies. Some people call that racist.
Texas on fire God is tired of the hate.
Noone has ever welcomed me to a neighborhood either.
Providence Village in Denton Co. 😠
Shameful
Not surprised, It’s Texas 🙄
This is beyond appalling
I actually read the whole article. Definitely some racism there, but also found the part about wanting to end Section 8 as part of a larger effort to stop the out-of-state institutional buyers from buying homes to rent and driving up prices really interesting and valid.
Sounds about white. Pretty gross.
You couldn't pay me to visit that hellhole known as Texas. It's a lawless state full of gun humper Bubba's 🤮
Wow! How is this even legal?
Why even have the section 8 program? Just so you can give them a little hope, just to rip it out from under them. EVIL BASTARDS. SHELTER IS A HUMAN RIGHT.
Badass4Mothers way to acclerate homeless problem, Texass black hearted fools imo
Brendajurgens3 An attack on POC. I'm a little confused. Are they banning section 8 housing all together or just the tenants they don't like?
Continual systematic racism under the current Texas leadership shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone. Don’t let the gerrymandering deter you. PLEASE vote in the upcoming election.
Looks like someone better fight harder & nastier Coz GQP won again
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