A woman in Madison, WI. is losing her Section 8 funding because her son is in jail facing murder and attempted murder charges for shooting 2 people at a different housing complex in which she lives in.
From the Wisconsin State Journal:
A lawsuit was filed and a fundraiser is being planned on behalf of a North Side mother who lost her public housing subsidy because her son faces homicide charges.
Heidi Wegleitner, lawyer for Justine Mays, has filed suit in Dane County District Court challenging the Madison Community Development Authority's December decision to strip Mays' federal Section 8 subsidy. The Community Development Authority has 20 days from being notified of the suit to respond.
Mays lives in a North Side apartment with two teenage daughters. Her son, Zachary, 18, is in jail facing allegations that he shot two men in an East Side apartment complex parking lot last September, killing one and wounding the other.
His mother lost her Section 8 housing subsidy after the incident under federal laws that allow local officials to remove relatives of alleged criminals from public housing. Her last Section 8 payment came in January.
Read more:
http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/crime_and_courts/suit-filed-for-mom-who-lost-section-subsidy-over-son/article_539063fc-4881-11e1-b06d-001871e3ce6c.html#ixzz1kdLSjGep You have a family in which the son no longer (if he ever did) lives at the Section 8 housing unit because he is in jail. The shooting occurred several miles away from mom's house. And the son is now an adult and apparently an adult when he committed the crime.
At what point do you hold a mother responsible for the bad deeds of their kids that don't live at her house or commit a crime in the immediate neighborhood?
Now, if the son was living at mom's house, then I can see where the money might be yanked, but if he wasn't living at home at the time of the crime....
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