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MN Housing Board taxpayers to Pay Monthly Rent for Migrants Traveling Back to East Africa
2016-10-02
[GP] The Minneapolis Housing Authority passed legislation this week that will allow migrants to skip their monthly rent in Minnesota when they travel back home to East Africa.

The move was sought by local East African immigrants. Immigrants traveling for 30 to 90 days could apply for a hardship which will reduce their rent to $75 a month while they are gone.

Public housing residents in Minneapolis will no longer need to pay their normal monthly rent when travel abroad erases their income, a change particularly sought by East African immigrants. The board of the Minneapolis Public Housing Authority approved this week reverting to its previous policy of collecting only minimal rent during extended absences. The change takes effect once approved by federal housing officials, which is expected by year’s end.

Abdi Warsame, a City Council member, told the board that the policy in place for the past five years works a particular hardship on elderly East Africans who must save for long periods if they want to visit their homelands.
I'd also have to save for a long period if I wanted to do extended overseas travel...
He said that many receive federal Supplemental Security Income, which is halted when the recipient is outside the United States.
Which is current Federal law. If you're flush enough to travel overseas you likely don't need SSI. Then again, someone is going to have to explain why a foreign national is getting SSI in the first place...
Yet the policy required people to keep paying rent, which is income-based. Travelers gone for 30 to 90 days could apply for a hardship, which meant that they paid the minimum $75 monthly rent during their absence, but were required to make up the difference between that and their normal rent over the next year or two.
Posted by:Besoeker

#8  are these people former refugees who settled in Minnesota?
If so their returning home suggests they no longer qualify as refugees, and have no basis for readmission to this country.
If not, why were a large number of people from this area resettled here?
Posted by: Grins Snese4215   2016-10-02 21:41  

#7  
#3 So basically we, the taxpayers, get to pay for a 90-day vacation for 'migrants' to visit their homeland.

Hey, jihadist training ain't cheap!

So pay the jizgeld, peasants!

Why do you think your masters let you live in the first place?!
Posted by: charger   2016-10-02 20:26  

#6  If anyone who came from a foreign country to the US as a refugee returns to their country of origin, we should declare whatever crisis they were fleeing to be over and send *ALL* the refugees from that country back.
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2016-10-02 15:09  

#5  Can't wait for all of them to bring back exotic presents, like dengue fever, Ebola, tuberculosis, Zika, etc...
Posted by: Raj   2016-10-02 15:07  

#4  What #2 P2k said. In spades. >:-(
Posted by: Barbara   2016-10-02 10:58  

#3  So basically we, the taxpayers, get to pay for a 90-day vacation for 'migrants' to visit their homeland.

And you know that right now they say 'east africans' but it'll be expanded to cover just about every third-world country - or at least the Islamic ones.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2016-10-02 10:44  

#2  It's always easy to be virtuous, with other peoples money.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2016-10-02 08:29  

#1  It would make sense is they were going back and staying gone.
Posted by: Glenmore   2016-10-02 08:20  

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