A RAISE IN RENT WITH A RAISE IN PAY

Our rent recently raised,

The Property Manager praised…

“Oh, my honey,

“You’re making GOOD MONEY”–

Now we can take more away!

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Section Eight–subsidized rent–

Limits percent housing spent…

Income-based

Advantage erased,

Amounting to thirty percent.

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A refuge for us it’s been,

Every refuge has a price within…

Can’t get ahead–

Pay more rent instead,

For a home and a place to live in!

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Couldn’t afford our house and land,

Gave up all the dreams we’d planned…

City living

Was unforgiving,

Like walking straight into a scam.

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A friend saw troubles in it,

Got us section eight,last minute…

In this refuge

The difference huge,

A bar we can finally chin it.

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–Jonathan Caswell