{"id":1413966,"date":"2022-03-31T21:45:16","date_gmt":"2022-04-01T01:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1413966"},"modified":"2022-03-31T21:45:19","modified_gmt":"2022-04-01T01:45:19","slug":"video-maxine-waters-tells-homeless-voucher-seekers-to-go-home-in-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/video-maxine-waters-tells-homeless-voucher-seekers-to-go-home-in-los-angeles\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Maxine Waters Tells Homeless Voucher-Seekers to \u2018Go Home\u2019 in Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fvideo-maxine-waters-tells-homeless-voucher-seekers-to-go-home-in-los-angeles%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1413966&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) told a crowd of people seeking housing vouchers, some of whom said they were homeless, that she wanted them to \u201cgo home\u201d during a chaotic scene in Los Angeles, according to a\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" title=\"This external link will open in a new window\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/0000017f-d813-dee4-a57f-dcf72b120000-123\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">video<\/a>\u00a0published Tuesday night by the\u00a0<em>Los Angeles Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Waters also attempted to quash a story about the incident,\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" title=\"This external link will open in a new window\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2022-03-30\/l-a-s-homeless-crisis-pain-confusion-and-a-congressional-f-bomb-as-hundreds-seek-help\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">telling<\/a>\u00a0the\u00a0<em>Times<\/em>\u00a0in an interview Tuesday morning not to publish its report about the video, according to the outlet.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a bunch of rumors,\u201d Waters told the\u00a0<em>Times.<\/em>\u00a0\u201cYou\u2019ll hurt yourself and the community trying to put this together without background,\u201d she warned. \u201cI don\u2019t want you to start trying to write it, you won\u2019t understand it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred Friday while a nonprofit called Fathers and Mothers Who Care, a self-described \u201chomeless triage center,\u201d was holding one of three planned events in South Los Angeles to assist people with finding housing.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<em>Times<\/em>\u00a0reported, however, that the \u201cmostly homeless\u201d attendees had shown up with the misunderstanding \u2014 from inaccurate information on social media \u2014 that they could receive \u201crare vouchers for permanent, subsidized housing,\u201d that is, section 8 vouchers.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>In the video, Waters is seen with a mask under her chin telling the crowd, \u201cI want everybody to go home,\u201d to which someone yells, \u201cWe don\u2019t got no home! That\u2019s why we\u2019re here!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Watch:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Here&#8217;s the video of Maxine Waters telling a group of homeless people to &#8220;go home&#8221; to which somebody replies &#8220;we ain&#8217;t got no home.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wHMHkBlvtt\">pic.twitter.com\/wHMHkBlvtt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Greg Price (@greg_price11) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/greg_price11\/status\/1509559084273524739?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 31, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Fathers and Mothers Who Care responded to the mix-up Friday by writing on its Facebook page that it was not \u201chanding out Section 8 Vouchers,\u201d but was instead aiding in the housing assistance application process.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Section 8 is a federal government program in which U.S. Housing and Urban Development\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" title=\"This external link will open in a new window\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ecfr.gov\/current\/title-24\/subtitle-B\/chapter-IX\/part-982\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">provides<\/a>\u00a0housing vouchers to low-income individuals through an application process managed by local housing authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Waters explained to the crowd, \u201cYou cannot get section 8 vouchers here. \u2026 Nothing is going to happen here today. Nothing is going to happen anymore today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Waters said she had asked the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA) to attend the event to also help people, but the\u00a0<em>Times<\/em>\u00a0noted LAHSA workers were overwhelmed and unable to assist most of the hundreds of people who had shown up seeking the vouchers.<\/p>\n<p>At one point during the video, the founder of a nonprofit called Kingdom Warriors Foundation confronts Waters, who drops the f-word,\u00a0though it was censored out in the video. \u201cExcuse me! There\u2019s nobody in Washington who works for their people any f****** harder than I do,\u201d Waters said.<\/p>\n<p>Local outlet ABC 7 also\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" title=\"This external link will open in a new window\" href=\"https:\/\/abc7.com\/section-8-housing-vouchers-emergency-houosing-homeless-for\/11681549\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a>\u00a0on the event and showed Waters explaining that the confusion had ensued because \u201cpeople don\u2019t know the difference between the emergency homeless vouchers and the regular section 8 vouchers. They\u2019re here today just trying to get help.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Write to Ashley Oliver at <a href=\"mailto:aoliver@breitbart.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">aoliver@breitbart.com<\/a>. Follow her on Twitter at <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/asholiver\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@asholiver<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) told a crowd of people seeking housing vouchers, some of whom said they were homeless, that she wanted them to \u201cgo home\u201d during a chaotic scene<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1413966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1413966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1413966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1413966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1413966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}