Re:Alright, amigo, let's build some affordable housing
by detcader on Saturday April 02, 2022 @07:35PM
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By the principle of charity I sympathize with this, but this doesn't hold up without evidence. For example, what are the penalties for lying/grifting in this area? Does this all vary with the degree of corruption in the particular state/city/town? Or is it all corrupted to varying degrees nationwide?
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Re:Alright, amigo, let's build some affordable housing
by R0b0t1 on Saturday April 02, 2022 @08:50PM
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Historically the penalties for grifting these programs are nothing in the vast majority of cases, if it's even discovered. The problem is a bunch of frontloaded vetting that is never followed up on.
Re:Alright, amigo, let's build some affordable housing
by detcader on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @10:51AM
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So these forms and processes can be essentially spammed and nobody gets any real fine or other legal penalty, even when flagrant criminality is found? It seems like there would be major incentive for press outlets to expose this as government waste or capitalist greed, so I would be curious to see any existing journalism about this.