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Chicago Mother Kicked Out of Subsidized Housing Because of Son's Rap Video
Obvious gang activity, drug use and possession being depicted in the video, not to mention the gun displayed and references to gun violence. (Remember Newton?) Would anyone want this sort of behavior going on next door to them? The building owners and managers have a duty and responsibility for the safety and security of the other tenants in the building and neighborhood. Condoning this behavior just enables it. I think Ms. Funchess should be alarmed that her son is part of this gang (as well as the jacked up hair).
Gang activity is reason enough to expel these people from their free housing. 

How stupid can you be? You are given lifetime free housing at the expense of honest hard-working taxpayers. All you have to do is follow a few simple rules, and you can even pass on your free housing to your kids when they're grown up. There is a reason these people remain mired in poverty generation after generation, despite everything the government does to try to lift them out of poverty.

i see nothing wrong with what the building management did. 

If anything, she should be evicted for the ridiculous hair. 

And I'll take a bet that the limosine liberal lawyer representing her would not want her to be her neighbor either.

Apartment management wants to evict woman because son is in rap video
BY MARY MITCHELL marym@suntimes.com December 26, 2012 2:00PM

Talitha Funchess at her South Side apartment Wednesday, December 26, 2012. | John H. White~Sun-Time
Updated: December 27, 2012 2:18AM

Talitha Funchess, 43, is being evicted from her subsidized apartment in the South Loop because her 20-year-old son appeared in a rap video.
Actually, he appeared in a very bad rap video.

Funchess has lived in the 2100 block of South Michigan building since 2009.
Last month she received a “Notice of Termination of Tenancy” from Metroplex Inc., notifying her that the lease was being terminated because her son, Kenneth Coffie, “appeared in a posted video using profanity, degrading language and flashing gang signs on the project grounds, in violation of Paragraphs 8 and 9” of the lease.
According to Paragraph 8 of Funchess’ lease: “Neither Tenant or any of Tenant’s guests shall perform or permit any practice that may damage the reputation of or otherwise be injurious to the Building or neighborhood, or be disturbing to other tenants, or be illegal.”
Paragraph 9 of the lease defines “unlawful” behavior as, including but not limited to the “possession, use or sale of illegal drugs, and disturbances or acts of violence.”

Edited by zsazsa - Dec 27 2012 at 11:25am