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Section Eight For South Beach Spanish People
Section Eight For South Beach Spanish People
Rebecca Towers is the ideal last resort for poor seniors. I happen to be one by
choice with my Extremely Low Income for Miami-Dade County. I feel rather
sorry for rich people, as one should if he knows a few. Yet I certainly would like to
live in better quarters, but not to live large as realtor Saul Gross advertises.
I did not apply at the Rebecca when I turned 60 back when they were keeping
lists. The word was that the list was two or three years long, and one had to be
Hispanic to get in. Apparently HUD allows discrimination in certain places, like
South Beach, in order to favor the majority.
City commissioners confirm the mayors appointment of the board members of
the local housing authority. City officials can get people put ahead of long housing
lines. A.C. Weinstein, may he rest in peace, offered to get me in front of a line for
so-called artist housing on the basis that writers are bullshit artists.
A now deceased Rebecca resident who spoke not a word of Spanish told me that
he had his girlfriend fill out his application in Spanish. He was called in fairly
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A white fellow who has done a great deal for the community without asking for
anything in exchange said he was told there was no longer a list, and that he
would have to wait for an opening, yet a woman he knew went over there and
got an apartment right away.
Based on a plethora of such anecdotes in the community, everybody knows that
the Rebecca is mainly for poor old Hispanic folk. Not that there is anything wrong
with that. They have worked for rich people their whole lives, and they have done
a lot to make the city a world-class city. So it would be a crying shame to move
them out of the towers. Developers should have to wait until the last one of them
goes to Heaven.
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